A new thread for Summer general discussion.
Cloudy start in Greystones. 11.7c atm.
My daughter who is 9 woke up in the middle of the night one night last week complaining that she was too warm, she wasn't sick or anything. Think my kids take after me with their dislike of heat, not that's it been too warm of course.
Nothing like Cape Verde Cluedo.
Cape Verde has a more tropical climate and wouldn't get the rainfall Madeira gets. Also MUCH hotter in Cape Verde. Was in Praia in May about 6 years ago. Jesus it was hot. Felt similar to Carribean climate
21.5c now in Greystones.
Turned into a lovely day here with fair weather and currently 21.1C, decent enough.
Its July and we have not had even one warm night so far..the nights in winter were warmer with all the wind and rain...it was 26 degrees at 8 oclock at night in lapland a few days ago...if we go right up to the arctic we will still get a warmer summer🤣
I absolutely will do.
Is it similar to Cape Verde?
Lovely sunny, warm, windy, dry day.
Getting anxious that I'm not hanging out any clothes at the moment.
Madeira is known as the Hawaii of Europe,even though its mid Atlantic off Africa
You should google a few youtube videos
Ryanair fly there
I really like the sound of Madeira. It says average high/low in July is 26/21. Not bad at all. Tell us more.
I went to Greece last September and I baked in 30C+. It was a diving holiday so I was able to escape the sun. However what bothered me the most was the state of the sea life in the Med. I notice it every time I go there. The Med sea is dying. Various factors at play e.g. pollution, climate change etc. The reefs are definitely getting bleached with the sun and there is less and less sea life every time we go. Saw the same in the Red Sea.
20 mins down the M50 in Greystones,and you can don your bathing suit in 20c and still receive lmfm on your portable transister radio…
(Lmfm's signal doesnt go as far as Arklow and listening on the phone just wouldn't be the same)
Be sure to wear Sunscreen
Yep, as soon as it was here, was gone just as quick and has brightened up.
I have given up with my garden for this year.
Even the weeds i'm getting out by the roots are taking the pi$$ out of my by popping up every coule of days.
Still though, i have a couple more foreign trips in the Sun to look forward to before the year closes and will be sure to post regular pictures of random Palm trees while you all sit in gloom come september
Yeah, looks to have brightened up through the window, but there is actually continuous fine rain. Very windy also.
raining every few minutes here in Meath, cool breezy and wet. July is turning into another pig shaped turd.
Ninja shower. Hammering down here. N Kildare
I'm slowly making my way over to camp negative about this summer……..
Sun's out now in Greystones. 20c now. Can't complain.
At the moment absolutely none. There were hints of this pattern breaking mid month to allow warmer and dryer weather from the south but those seem to be put to bed again. the models keep this cool and unsettled north-westerly flow going right to the very end of FI which takes us to the third week of July.
I'm not really at all surprised it's a cold Summer this year. Sure our Summers are different every year. Last year was a wet one and a few warm ones before that and since 2015 was the last cold one and 2011 this year is another cold one that's kinda been due. We are NOT the Mediterranean lest people forget.
Suns out again in Arklow,already 19c
This is the third lovely day in a row here
Certainly not cold
Farming here and grass growth is very slow. It's very tight and I'm not overstocked. Some farmers are already feeding silage. Already national milk supply is back 10-15% on top a a drop of nearly 8% last year. Silage supplies are back as the peak growth months of may and June have been poor. It's the cold air and the lack of sunshine that has really hit growth of everything
Glad it's not just my garden too - just about everything planted is failing to thrive…. Weeds are doing OK tho
Cold, grey, and damp. I've also had to put the heating on for an hour the past two nights - couldn't sleep with the cold on Monday night/Tue morning so gave in at 2am. Recommended living room temperature is 20C. My living room thermometer is hovering around 17C these days - if I set the heating on thermostat it would definitely have kicked in during the day too.
My garden is also full of closed buds since May that just won't open. Nothing but geraniums in flower
not just my tomatoes looking forlorn ………..but all my flowers are sitting there with their buds still closed. Nothing is flowering except borage and calendula. There is no heat so they're staying closed, very little colour in my garden for July.
Another cold miserable cycle in this morning, you know there's something badly wrong when you see cyclists wearing gloves in July. God love anybody trying to holiday in Ireland, bad enough that you'd need another mortgage to holiday in Ireland, but then you have to put up with our awful weather. It really is depressing stuff, with nothing to give us any hope on the horizon.
it has a ronaldo statue too
Beautiful place was there a few years ago. The whole island is worth exploring especially if you like a bit of hiking. The weather as you say can be a mixed bag, it has micro climates all over the place, but we were lucky when we were there and it was low 20s and dry for the week. Also some of the best food I've ever eaten was on that island, definitely going to go back there.
If this yrs Hurricane season is very active ,I wonder could August be affected in some way here in Ireland. Could send plenty of muggy moist air our way later this summer. Or have some impact on disturbing the weather pattern here. Think it was a Hurricane last yr that shook up our pattern and led to that heat last September.
there's so little sunshine this year that my tomatoes just wont ripen or kick on. very unusual for them to take this long. i wonder if the cloudier wetter climate that is predicted here will have big impacts on food production, probably.
so your saying there’s a chance?
Off topic regarding irelands weather. Came across these images on netweather yesterday, thought they looked pretty cool. From a Hurricane hunter plane inside the eye of Hurricane Beryl.
And I hate to say it but we are running out of road here.
Once August arrives it becomes less probable.
