Summer 2026 - General Discussion

I lived there for years, you still get periods of dreadful weather for weeks in summer but you're guaranteed weeks of being able to sit outside at night or spend the day in a park not worrying about layers etc. So yeah real summers.

an absolutely disgusting afternoon for high summer, a cold chilly damp wind blowing, an endless veil of grey white stratus cloud, a depressing dull light, And faint scent of slurry in the air.

Far too unpleasant to be able to do anything outdoors. Just a vile pig of an afternoon, you can understand why there’s some many addiction problems in this country, it’s at times like this I wish I drank alcohol.

I lived in Cairns for a while. No air con where I lived. Tropical 30c felt worse than 40c in Western Australia. Give me low 20s and sunny over either any day.

First time in the venue! It's about 500 meters away from gaf so handy. Great to have the concerts on again.

I was mostly in WA with a few months in Melbourne, where I lived in WA it was mid 20s - mid 30s for at least half the year with the odd spell of 3 or 4 days at a time where it'd spike into high 30s or low 40's, as a heat lover I loved the climate there and would happily take a handful of unbearably hot days for the otherwise perfect climate for a good chunk of the year.

Melbourne as you say is more changeable without the guaranteed heat and Brisbane northwards is pretty much tropical so yeah a lot more of a humid thundery heat

The long evenings are probably the one thing I did miss about Irish summers, always disappointing seeing the sun set by 8pm even in high summer. Though the fact you could comfortably sit outdoors all night definitely made up for it to some extent

We had a few light patches of mizzle earlier today in north Longford. Not a lot but it was heavy for a time just before midday. A really good afternoon and still good heading into the evening. Warm and sultry too. To.oro looks good too, but reast of the week not great.

It looks like we had rain earlier this morning, but dry and sunny now with some clouds in north Longford. Nice and mild but with a nice breeze, looks like its going to be a nice day. The next couple of days look to be wet. I think we may have a high approaching for next week and it looks good. Fingers crossed.

The forecast for the weekend in Cork city looks a bit better than the last few days. The rain looks to finish up around Friday at lunchtime and then you get cloud with sunny spells until Sunday. Two days ago they were predicting a bit of a washout. Hopefully it keeps improving

the pig gloom has lifted today, but now the wind is too strong, with strong blustery gusts…another summers day for the trash can.

I see the old Potatoe blight warnings are up on met.ie always synonymous with trash summer weather and trash summers in general.

Just remember the weather symbol for each day is only the 1pm hour I think so it could be raining the rest of the day and still show that symbol.

Mid 20s is showing for me next week hopefully it stays

Nice afternoon out there and warm

Lovely day

That's three days in a row cycling to work and home again afterwards. Great when the weather is guaranteed dry.