New thread for a new season although not starting off very summerlike!
As if limerick junction wasn't bad enough. Went for a run and had to stop twice due to showers.
All things considered, not a bad day at all Ted 😍
Peeled myself from the sofa at 730 to go for a walk expecting to get drowned. 50 mins walk a miracle no rain but there was some show of clouds all around me was sure I get hit with those showers. The young lad was hurling over towards Enfield. He was a drowned rat when got in. Some wind out there.
13⁰ Meath
That could describe anyday of the year at Limerick Junction...
Miserable outside.
Dry so far in north Longford. Very cloudy though so I'd expect some showers later. Yesterday was horrendous.
Rain wind cloudy and cool. Yup flaming June in Ireland.
Leitrim
Met E forecast for next week.
Further Outlook: Current indications suggest it will continue unsettled for midweek with further showers or spells of rain. Breezy at times too. Temperatures generally ranging between 13 and 16 degrees.
Jasus, I don't mind the the odd shower and mild temperatures but the wind is ridiculous at the moment. Incessant !
The wind is notable for the time of year. In the upper ranges of climatology for the first three days of June with a return period of 1 in 20-30 years for the west coast. The last 24 hours have been pretty exceptional for the south of the country as well. Saturday could be notably windy again.
I recall a notably windy first few days of June 2015 which funnily enough was the last very strong El Niño like what is expected this year…
It's baltic out in Dublin. Seems to take a while to shake off the cold entirely in Irish summers, a couple more weeks probably.
If it's any consolation, last years June weather is a carbon copy of this year's so far. It didn't settle down until the 16th. It was very windy on the 2nd and had flooding on the 14th. Temperatures ranged from only 12C (9th) to 17C at best in the first half of the month. (Pet day on the 11th, dry 19C).
A dogs dinner of a day in North Ros, the June rainfall totals are mounting up already.
Further showers in Kildare today and windy. Almost 60mm already for the month
Fine day so far in Greystones but just drove back through a biblical/torential shower on the M50 (around Sandyford).
Dreadful day in Dublin, the last few days at least had a some interesting skies and a few thunderstorms, today is just dark, grey and windy with heavy rain battering against the windows
I always associate these sudden downpours with the so called summer months in Ireland that just come out of nowhere. Is there a reason they're more prevalent than in the colder months? We often get this weather in July and August too just a bit warmer.
warmer air holds more moisture. With a strong sun much higher convection aswell.
Sorry too hot for some, honestly I would say to them to go and live in Iceland or the artic circle if the few good days of good weather that we get once or twice a year is too much for them. Honestly the weather since Monday would depress you, it's like January & February all over again, constant rain, and you're back to literally been able to do nothing. We're easily pleased in this country, but let's hope our four or five days last week of lovely sunny weather was not our Summer.
But it's not exactly warm, we often get to 14 or 15 in winter months too and I don't associate sudden deluges with it, could be warmer air elsewhere causing it
I don't think I have ever heard one person say its too hot standing on the platform at Limerick Junction
Depends which side of the country you're on, frequent heavy showers like this are a staple of winters in the west and north west, they just tend to die out over land in the winter months as there's no convection so we don't get them in the east. Opposite this time of year where showers are probably at their heaviest in the east as they've built up over land
another pig of a day here in Meath, this is up there with the worst starts to summer I can remember. Lots of showers, very windy and cool, feels like late October or early November just with more daylight.
Yep insane showers out there. No way I'm not getting destroyed cycling home.
The air mass doesn’t need to be warm. The sun is much stronger and heats the land up allowing more moisture to rise forming bigger clouds and sustain over land by the time it reaches the east in an unstable westerly whereas the opposite is the case in winter as @Thunder87 mentioned.
Every year you say this without fail Gonzo. "Worst spring, worst summer. Can't remember a worse X or Y."
Do you honestly think the country has never experienced June weather like this before?
I even remember you complaining one year about the cold one June. And it was the warmest June on record!
And it's not even that cool. The mean temp for the first three days at your location in June is over 15º. That's a degree above average (granted it will fall a lot over the next few days).
Moan about the weather if you want, it's a free forum. But I don't understand the need for the constant hyperbole.
What we're getting is pretty much bog standard Irish summer weather, which we get every year for a week or so, often longer.
And we had a brilliant, record breaking end to May. The weather was always likely to take a turn to something more normal and Irish for a while.
Which makes me ask...what was summer 2015 like again?!
June had some lovely weather in the south and east where it was very dry but with late season frost in the second week. August had an alright spell as well but other than that it was utterly terrible. July was a complete write off. Our last genuine cool summer.
Trying to catch up in the Garden. The wind is bad. Destroying plants in full flower. Lupins are wrecked. Working in wet soil is soul destroying. As for the lawns?
Anyway. 13C. Rain. Strond wind. Leitrim.
It's feckin dire, no other word for it! Buried my aunt yesterday in Co Limerick and it just deluged as we laid her to rest. Pallbearers in their suits like drowned rats. Ladies in sombre, any season dresses drenched to the core. Hot whiskies all round needed afterwards, steaming hot tea for drivers. And this is the month of June!! Only in bloody Ireland! 😕
