Summer 2024 - General Discussion

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.

When Is the First Day of Fall? The Autumnal Equinox?

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 😊

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

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.

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.

Yes that's true , it's usually August, September and October we get the tail end of hurricanes 🌀

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.

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.

Dry dull and cloudy and cool today. Good day in terms of this Summer as no GALE.

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

So dull. We must have the most dull and grey climate in the world. Never cold, never hot, wasn’t even humid this summer with the cold Atlantic breeze. Summers over before you know it.

I was in London for a week in July around Wimbledon and it rained every day and was miserable and cold. They get better summers than us but I can assure you it's far from a continental climate! They get good warm spells but the weather there is very hit and miss to be honest

I said they had better weather than here but if you think they get consistently sunny hot summers you are wrong. They average 4 days per year where temp goes over 30 degrees. Paris not a huge distance away gets far better and hotter summers for example. South of France gets 30 degrees and more nearly every day.

As I said London gets better summers than us but the way people hype their weather,its far from the reality. Pretty much all of June to mid July this year was abysmal as was the case here.

The reality is if you want good summers draw a line from Paris and south and you will get them. London will get good stretches of weather but you can normally count on one hand the times its over 30 degrees on any given year. That's why Londoners travel to the sun in their droves every summer

We did reach 25C on 24th June in Dublin (Phoenix Park even had a rounded 27C) but it was disappointingly cloudy for much of it and I will be honest it didn't feel that warm at all. Only did the cloud break up during the late evening hours. One of the coolest feeling "statistical very warm" days I've experienced. I don't blame anyone for forgetting it.

But yeah, 24-25C is about average for the modern July in London. Dublin's average July day typically ranges inbetween 19 and 20C (Dublin Apt 30 year avg is 19.5C). We are lucky to get one day of 25C maybe during the entire summer on the east coast or sometimes the entire country in the cooler summers like the current one or 2015. I'm not massively into temperatures like many - sun and wind play much more of a influence for me in rating - but without a doubt it's significantly warmer there and there's no arguing about it. As you say that's the one thing that sets the two apart. London is hardly world class for summers, in fact it's "very poor" when you compare it to others but that's the thing. You'll almost always find somewhere worse or better than other places. It's all relative and subjective. You can endlessly compare and come to no conclusion. Málaga is very poor for sunshine compared to Yuma, Arizona (the sunniest place on earth) but is still great and nobody would probably ever do such a comparison. Dublin is significantly better for sunshine compared to Torshavn in the Faroe Isles but again nobody would ever do such a comparison and most consider (rightfully so) both terrible.

clear night tonight on the west cork coast. Very Red moon though, anybody know why? Can’t say I’ve actually seen it before! Apologies for the shocking phone camera photos!