Irish ''Summer''

Dublin has got dumped on this summer, that area in and around "the Pale" is prone to heavy downpours.

The road outside me has been a river twice in the last hour.

rossie1977 wrote: »

yeah summer of 1995 was amazing, i remember walking around stephens green in august and the grass was dead or dying everywhere it looked like it hadn't rained for months, 2003 was the last good summer or should i say heatwave, i was in france/switzerland at the time in august 2003, stupidly hot everyday

2006 was the last good summer rosie and it was much better than 2003 , 1995 was the best summer in modern times , before that you had to go back to 1989 for a really hot summer , we simply dont get the summers in this country although we,ve never had three washouts in succession so it will be interesting to see can this summer redeem itself , june was great and july as bad as it is , is not as bad as last july where i live but the thing about july is that rainfall has been very localised , towns only half an hour from where i live have had twice as much rain , where i live the only really heavy spill was the one that occurred the night of the big spill in dublin , all other showers have been pretty standard fare so in places this year could be as bad as last summer

btw, may 2009 was the wettest month of all time so that could have influcend the report in the herald as may is offically part of summer , my brother is a farmer and no one knows more about weather than farmers , may was bordering on cataclyismic

irish_bob wrote: »

2006 was the last good summer rosie and it was much better than 2003 , 1995 was the best summer in modern times , before that you had to go back to 1989 for a really hot summer ,

best ones I can remember

1976
1983
1984
1989
1995