Summer 2024 - General Discussion

Am I wrong? At no point does that article say June was the coldest on record which is the point I was arguing.

Everything McGreevy said there is a copy and paste from the official statement they put out - which is miles better than the misinformation coming from the likes of the Examiner.

Edit: I noticed an embedded link to another article stating August was the 2nd wettest on record which as I've already stated is just straight up wrong on a national basis. It is true for individual stations like Newport, Mayo. And I also note they added this at the end instead of amending the title:

*This article was amended in the afternoon of 4th September, 2024. It was incorrectly stated that it was the second wettest August on record for all of Ireland, whereas this was only the case for Newport. The error occurred in the editing process.

WhY is it so windy tonight?? Was it forecast?

I was always give the example that 2010 was the warmest year globally on record at the time (tied with 2005) yet Ireland had its coldest year since 1986 though obviously the former has been beaten numerous times since.

How small our cold anomaly was compared to a warm globe - the warm anomalies were also more extreme, just look at Canada and Greenland. That persistent Greenland blocking gave way to such an extremely warm year there.

August 2024 was the windiest August in Ireland since at least 1992 with an average wind speed of 11.2 kts. 1992 was only slightly windier at 11.3 kts. Have to go back to 1989 for the last significantly windier one. It was a good deal above any other August this century to date with 2009 being the closest at 10.5 kts.

Even historically, this is a pretty high value though 1982-1992 had some ridiculously windy Augusts. Only a few years back in 2021, we had the calmest August since 2002 and 2022 was also pretty calm.