Summer 2024 - General Discussion

was an absolute genuine bona fide no hyperbole glorious start to the day here. From 7am right up to 10:30am. and then like as if someone flicked a switch along comes the grey slate.

August from 1960-1984 would have typically seen just 7 days of 20C+ at Dublin Airport. Currently every day except 2 has managed that so far and even those were still over 19.4C. Mean max of 21.6C to date there for August is +2.5C above average.

21c glorious

Must be one of the windiest summers on record in Cork. Constantly breezy.

Very wet morning in Galway been raining since around 4am temp 15 degrees some Summer.

Rain. Dark. Dreadful.

Leitrim

A description of this morning even Oscar Wilde would be proud of.

Won't need to water the veg garden today.

Clearing already

Edit. Drizzle followed by Heavy rain

And today again looking at sat24. Cluster of storms just spinning around the island all day yesterday and continuing today

Seems to be early for the usual end of summer Med storms, unless this is an isolated event. I always remember them mid/late September

Only recorded 1.2mm of rain overnight, glass around here will remain brown. Fourth month in a row with below average rainfall.

Its like a switch was flipped in April.

Decent spell of above average temperatures too.

A short sharp spell of rain before the front clears the country, mostly in the northern half.

Statistically dry maybe but June and July had loads of days with drizzle and light rain blowing in the wind, so wouldn't amount to much in terms of mm but still felt like unpleasant damp days. At least in Dublin.

e.g. here's the stats for Dublin airport, lots of days with rain reported in the 3 hour summaries but where the daily total is 'trace' or less than 1mm.

August has been mostly better with plenty of actual dry days, albeit a few crap days as well.

I've been away for a good chunk of this month so can't really comment, mainly just going off reports on here which have been mostly positive this month. But here's the actual stats for August, 10 of 15 days at Dublin airport with rain recorded in the 3 hourly reports, so you're probably not far off

https://ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?lang=en&ind=03969&ndays=30&ano=2024&mes=08&day=15&hora=11&ord=REV&Send=Send

The wind and also cooler temperature have probably contributed to drier land. Have temperatures exceeded 25 degrees any day this summer? Certainly can't recall any day in Munster although 23/24 some days.