Summer 2024 - General Discussion

Misty start, 11C, cloudless sky. The forecast is for cloud later on. We'll see.

Leitrim

yesterday was beautiful and as some have said really brought into sharp focus the importance of good weather for mood and being able to enjoy some outdoor living and also the sense that this summer has been so shite. No amount of attempted revisionism or guilt tripping about “moaning” changes my view on that. Often breezy often cool and mostly cloudy and dry is how I’ll remember the summer. Yesterday was warm bright and sunny and a joy to me anyway. Back to normal today of course the “heatwave” lasted 1 day.

Well summarised. I would say that for me, the Aurora in May was the highlight of the season. And it occurred back when we still had hope for a good summer as well. Everything else was meh.

I said it before, and I'll say it again. The hotter the summers, and the colder the winters the US gets - the more we pay for it. Both of these send powerful jets across the Atlantic to us with low pressures spinning up on the northern side.

Despite what I posted the other day, it looks like a bit of morning cloud yesterday scuppered Dublin Airport's chance of reaching or exceeding it's average August sunshine value, meaning the below average sunshine streak has been extended to seven months! However, this is splitting hairs because it's only very marginally below average, so it might as well have been average.

As for my thoughts on summer overall, I was away for most of June but would say July was poor and August was fairly good but nothing special.

Yep, i was on bettystown beach on the east coast of Meath on the 14th and it only clouded over from about 5.30 pm. It was warm and very sunny until then, so I suppose Dublin can't have been too dissimilar

I think it depends where you are.

August turned out OK in Dublin. It was slightly drier, sunnier and warmer than average for the month. Like you can't ask for much more.

It was different the further West and North you got. Some places away from the East saw all three summer months with below average temps. So that's tough (PP in Dublin actually only saw below average temps in July).

It'll be interesting to see how 'bad' this summer was by Irish standards though. Syran is obviously the man to tell us.

Here is a write up of how folks in the UK thought about it :-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c86l5z6gn6do

Of course, they had quite a bit of better weather than us this summer. Especially in August in the SE

Most Spanish people love the Irish summer when they come here to escape the heat

all the moaning is from people who seem to expect continental style summers, whinging about typical irish weather.

Will the same metric be applied to people “moaning” when “white gold” doesent come in the winter. Doubt it.

Payback today for the Capital. Absolute monsoon weather all morning.

Is that average max for daytime hours or for 24 hours?
The reason I ask is that I wonder if the cloud kept the daytime temps relativley low for summer but insulated the air temp at night to keep it relatively high, thus giving us moderate average 24hr temps.