Summer 2025 - General Discussion

Raspberries are doing well ,but the sunflowers aren't as high as I'd want them to be

They could be , I may have to relocate them, I'll have to water them later I'm surprised how dry the soil is even since last night's water

Maybe it's just perception and not backed up by stats, but it really feels like July is often the month with the most amounts of dark oppressive stratus cloud as a percentage of overall daylight, the past couple of weeks especially have been almost endless gloom

The weather's not been bad as such, mostly warm and fairly dry but very few spells of sunshine that aren't just a fleeting 5 minutes here and there

It kind of looks as if we're doing much better over here in the south west this week. I came back from Spain on Thursday to a sunny Kerry and it's been really nice since. Temps around 20C, bone dry and a fair bit of sunshine.I'm happy out and I escaped the bad weather here which followed the heatwave.

Looks like we're doing better than over east, which has me worried for the big match tomorrow in Croker. This Kerry team play better in dry conditions, but forecast looks dodgy for Dublin. Nicer forecast for Kerry. Hopefully rain will hold off until after the match, as dry weather is much nicer for everyone.

A lot of cloud about,sunny down along the west coast though. Showers in places

Raining here 10km north of you!

Still dry here but cloud is building up.so may get a shower yet

any good spell on the horizon?

Solid enough summer so far in Cork, June was ~1c above the LTA, July 1.5c above. Cloudy though lately and often humid.

Interesting to hear that the rain has arrived at last in Dublin. I could see the grey clouds watching the match on TV but really great that it stayed dry all throughout.

A nice day here in Kerry, though cloudier this evening. But we're all in great form now anyway.😀

12 days or more of temperatures at or above 30 in Finland, sea surface temperatures of 23 degrees off the Finnish coast, and we can’t even scrape together 1 sunny warm proper summers day.

Endless gloom while the artic circle is on fire.

So that’s the entirety of the continent basking in warmth and sunshine, everyone out in the open air enjoying vivid uv light and high summer except the pratai people who are trapped inside their grey pig gloom prison, looking out at misty grey gloom and a sky that would make you want to get sick all down your leg.

I don’t know which is worse the weather or that nauseating bog ball muck on the television.