A new thread for Summer general discussion.
Cloudy start in Greystones. 11.7c atm.
imagine having a proper summer climate :(
Judging by the forecast temperatures in the week ahead and the longer term outlook on the charts I'd say that's all she wrote for summer 2024.
Hopefully September might deliver a brief settled sunny spell, it'll be a full year since the last sunny week by that point
same as every day really. Dull grey dry cool temp 16 degrees. Is there any sun in the forecast at all.
Dry dull and cloudy and cool today. Good day in terms of this Summer as no GALE.
Rain last night followed by drizzle this morning. Nothing changes.
Leitrim.
This would be great, thank you. I must say it to my wife a couple of times a week that this is the windiest summer in my living memory. Today in Galway was extremely blustery again.
Most days now are cloudy or cloudy and wet. Sunny days have definitely decreased in the past few years. As the Oceans are heating up they are causing more cloud to form at our latitude so expect little or no frost or snow this Winter just 8c to 11c most days with rain on the non cloudy dry days.
Soon there will be no need to forecast the weather in this country.
It's a few years since I've used this forum with any regularity but winter was always by far the busiest season in the past at least, maybe as you say the boring autumnal nothingness of the past decade (2018 blizzard aside) has killed that interest.
Don't think many weather enthusiasts in this country get too excited by winter anymore. There is little to get excited about. Winter has become an extended autumn.
Yes that's true , it's usually August, September and October we get the tail end of hurricanes 🌀
@sryanbruen Thanks for that info. Sounds like a huge amount of work! Probably beyond my technical skills. I will really appreciate if you get a chance to do it, but no bother if you don't have time.
For the current month you have to manually take the data (the daily mean wind speed) from the daily data page and calculate an average after you've received all the figures. For past months, you have to go to the historical database and download CSV files, use SQL or functions in Excel to calculate averages for past summers. If I remember to, I will do so when the time comes. That is no problem. That will probably be by the end of the first week of September that I will post about it.
Seems to be tracking well to our west on the main model outputs this evening. Some yellow level gusts possible for exposed parts of the west coast based on current guidance but I don't think we'll be troubled by this one unless it takes a significant shift eastwards.
Same, I really don't get the excitement or enthusiasm so many have for winter, as you say its just months and months of darkness, temperatures around 8C and endless wind and rain. The chance of a decent snowfall is exciting but it happens so rarely that overall I detest it as a season and would happily migrate to somewhere like the Canaries every year if I had the means.
But anyway back to today, not a great day in Dublin, dry but cool and grey, the past two days are the first hints of autumn after a brief respite of comfortable temperatures for the past few weeks.
this sums it up perfectly. most of the summer 15 degrees grey and a nagging breeze. Relatively dry summer but no decent weather where I am at all. I know others on the west coast had a better June and July judging by the reports here.
I see Ernesto could hit or even track close to us next week here is the current track , giving the forward speed at 64km/h that's 40 odd mph, we shall see anyway
Winter 2024/2025 has about a 99.9% chance of the same oul rinse and repeat we see almost every winter with identical setups to low pressures and high pressure anchored over southern Europe and anything cold for Northern tips of Scotland, Scandi and eastern Europe. Strong PV, long fetch south-westerlies. All these 'drivers' that constantly get talked about in winter forecasts that support either a mild or cold winter, they basically all support the same oul pattern for our part of Europe.
At least with our summers you know there is going to be a half decent one every few summers and sometimes we get 2 or 3 decent ones in a row followed by a gap of crap summers and then back to good.
I don't know what trees you were seeing but every tree around me in Meath (and Longford) is green…..and there are plenty of them. If there are some yellowing leaves in the Dublin area, that would likely to be due to dryer than usual conditions so far this summer……of which there are still a couple of weeks of it left before we move into Irish meteorological Autumn.
As for the Americans calling this season Fall, Fall is over a month away in the USA, this year beginning on the 22nd of September @ 08:44 EDT.
Welcome fall! The autumnal equinox—the September equinox or the fall equinox—arrives on Sunday, September 22. Not only do temperatures drop, but plant life slows down, and so do we. Read about the first day of fall, plus some fun facts and folklore.
The fall equinox and the first day of autumn arrives on Sunday, September 22, 2024, at 08:44 A.M. EDT in the Northern Hemisphere. The equinox occurs at the same moment worldwide.
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It's always nice to learn new things 😊
Another day above 20c in South Wicklow
Beautiful day
I know a lot of people will disagree with me, but I actually hate Winter. I know our Winters are generally quite mild, and we don't have to put up with the freezing temperatures and snow that other countries do, but in Ireland it just seems to be seven to eight months of single figure temperatures, cold, damp, windy and dark. God even the thought of it gives me a shiver, even though it's not that far away once the clocks go back at end of October.
I agree, a pretty much forgettable crap summer of weather. I'd take a wetter summer, if it meant we had a week of prolonged warm/hot temps even once through each summer month.
Too much cloud, cooler than average, felt a distict chill at times because of the wind.
I, probably unlike you Gonzo appreciate milder more boring winters. Can't be dealing with freezing weather. Poor circulation in my youngish hands. So that's the next thing to "look forward" to, what will Winter 24//25 bring……….
Was out on the golf course at 7am this morning in Dublin and it was a beautiful start to the day however clouded up soon after. Love golfing at this time of the year in Ireland. The trees are all different colours and look beautiful. The only annoying thing is all the leaves on the greens but that's only a slight annoyance. I normally don't like American terms however I think when they call this season the FALL it really sums up what is happening in nature at the moment
Sun and broken cloud now in Cork but an improvement from this morning at least.
That said, the wind has a distinctive autumnal chill in it.
I gave up on this 'Summer' in mid July. It's been a complete bore. Most days the same oul same oul. Thick slate grey and a nagging wind.
I only hope Autumn and Winter deliver cool crisp days. I'm looking forward to wrapping up in layers and going for long walks. Enjoying the colours changing in both the light and countryside. Returning home to stare at a roaring fire.
If only.
We'll get another 6 month bore fest.
The only good thing I can say about this Summer is its nearly over. At least when it's cloudy and showery in Sept Oct Nov its par for the course and you take little notice. Wev had no dry settled spell this year at all for the 1st time ever in my life and I'm 50.
Cloudy, breezy, cool around Celbridge. It's grand for working outside, but I wouldn't sit out in the garden in it. Not too dark at least, unlike the first half of yesterday.
It's been a strange and largely disappointing summer. June and July were far too chilly for my liking, too much cloud, not enough sun and way too much wind. First half of August things improved a bit but there were still a few crap days. We seem back to a cooler and cloudy regime once again but will things improve for the remaining 2 weeks of summer? The azores high hasn't had a look in once over the entire summer and the Azores high looks as if it will stay well away from us for what little remains of this summer.
The only good thing I can say about this summer is that it's been a relatively dry summer but it never really settled down at any stage with light rain or drizzle on many days throughout this summer. Compared to summer 2023 this has been a better summer, at least the rain wasn't bouncing up off the ground every single day from 4th week of June all the way to final day of August like last summer. It's also been a very forgettable summer in terms of weather, no real warmth, no thunderstorms, no plumes, no high pressure. Most of Ireland hasn't seen temperatures go above 23C at any stage this summer with only a few places reaching 24C and 25C seems off the table for most of us this summer. I can only hope that summer 2025 is back to a half decent summer, we will be due one by then after 2 crap summers in a row.
It's currently 15° with grey skies and a very cool nagging wind. Jesus wept, it's more akin to Late October than mid August. Winter jacket zipped all the way up, a cap on my head yet I'm still sniffing from the chill and tears are running down my face from the wind.
Suns out in Arklow,18c
Very little if any breeze
that basterd wind, every where you go, from every direction, constantly blowing in your face, with slate grey perma stratus misery welded on tight,no gaps, no chinks of light,pig grey, i think ill go to to the off license this evening, and i dont even drink, i mean it literally would drive you out of you f'ing mind at this stage…frooze to death with no sun through all of may june and first half of july, then swamped with big heavy deluges of rain through july and august with constant wind and still crap temperatures. constant innacurate forecasts that make you want to tear your hair out, details constantly changing, unable to plan anything, just the one constant that is…
15 degrees, grey pig gloom
15 degrees ,grey pig gloom
15 degrees, grey pig gloom on and on and on and on and on it goes
