FI Charts ( T120+ onwards) Summer 2025 **READ MOD NOTE IN FIRST

Relief ?I look forward to these upgrades for the Dublin region , music to my ears

And if that happens we will beat our lowest highest temperature record again , we've never had a tropical night here in Ireland let's see if we can get one this time but it will make nights rather very uncomfortable to sleep

Excellent data @sryanbruen

The term 'tropical night' is probably a poor term for what really is measured, a 24hr-period where the temperature fails to drop below 20°C. I guess the reason is that prior to electronic sensors, etc… most climate data was gathered by observers who would only take readings once a day at 09UTC (9am, or 10am in the summer when the clocks go forward). Thus in order to establish if a tropical night in it's literal sense would require the minimum temperature thermometer to be reset at 10pm (or whenever sunset happened). This would require two visits for the observer, more note-taking, etc… In today's world it probably doesn't seem like a big thing/ask - but half a century ago and more it would have been an inconvenience.

Omg apologies for that , I don't know how I didn't know , my bad :/ thanks syran you are a legend 😀

Beggars can’t be choosers 😉

an interruption with thunderstorms in places followed by quick return to fine weather, that’s what I think will happen, it happens in the good summers and I’m becoming more convinced by the day that this one will be in the ‘good summer’ category when post mortems are done at the end of August.

2 warm cloudy days then back to slosh.

I think you may need to move house from Donegal if you want to experience warmer weather. Even my location in the north Midlands is looking very nice for the rest of this week.

Out of interest, what part of Donegal do you live in? I've looked at a few locations in Donegal and the automated Met Eireann forecast is showing decent weather in several parts of Donegal for the rest of this week:

Letterkenny:

Dungloe:

Bundoran:

An important thing to take into account when looking at these overview/daily forecasts is that the weather symbol shown will be what the weather conditions are expected to be at 13:00 local time. When we are not observing IST (Irish Standard Time), then the time is 12:00 local time.

So if we take Letterkenny as an example, the overview/daily forecast is showing partly cloudy conditions for this Friday:

However, if we look at the hourly breakdown for the day, you can see that it's forecast to be partly cloudy until 13:00, then fair around 14:00 and after that, clear for the rest of the day.

Now I'm not saying that the above is exactly how things will pan out. What I am saying is that you need to look at the hour by hour forecast to get some finer details rather than just look at the overview/daily forecast.

Better still, read the written forecast as this will have been written by a human following analysis of the weather data. The forecasts above are produced using raw data and without any input from the human meteorologists.

I'd have to disagree. Mid 20's in the west for the weekend is excellent. Even if it was fully cloudy with those temperatures, it would still be very nice, perhaps even too warm for some. Looking at the daily automated forecast for Westport in Mayo, which is in the far northwest and would be in the area of the country where the least "nice" weather occurs, the weekend looks great for outdoor activities.

Ah thank you for clarifying. Glad I used Westport in my example above so!