Summer 2026 - General Discussion

Awful morning in Dublin.

As bad as it gets. It would be a deplorable day in any month in Winter. Weekend forecast now for mild and grey also. The pessimism is starting to creep slowly but surely. Only 11 days in, but June so far has been has been as bad as it gets. N Kildare

Wasnt much better back in the day

Is there any sign of warm dry weather in the forecasts?

They're okay, like a lot of our public services, average at best!!

Destroyed on the bike again. Get me out of this kip.

Yeah dreadful in France too

To put this into perspective within a standard calendar year:
1. Out of a Full Year A standard year has 8,760 hours (365 days × 24 hours). Ireland's 1,400 hours of sunshine means the country experiences clear sun for only 16% of the entire year.

2. Out of Daylight Hours
If you only count the time the sun is actually above the horizon (roughly 4,380 daylight hours a year), Ireland is sunny for about 32% of the daytime. The remaining 68% of daylight hours are completely overcast or rainy.

✅ Final Answer
Ireland averages 58 days and 8 hours of total sunshine per year.


I'd take every third day, if it was somewhat consistent (but impossible). 😂

Had 24.4mm rain overnight in Sligo. Last 2 days not too bad albeit only the same temperature as April. I still think Summers in Ireland are getting cooler due to the Atlantic cold blob. We get the odd extreme heat spell from SE or S plumes but now mainly NW winds in Summer instead of previous SW mean most days are 1c cooler. Then we get a week about 2c above normal and the headline is warmer month than average. But look at May. Perfect example. 20 days at least were cooler than normal before record heat.

just booked a trip out of this kip, it’s deplorable stuff , nothing more to be said, having to spend thousands of euro for 7 days away to get what most people get to experience for free for 6 months, an unmitigated kip.

Only silver lining is I’m flying from Knock and can avoid that other grim depressing overpriced pig hole that I usually have to transit through to get out of this sespit.