Your daily forecasts from Boards.ie weather forum (NO CHAT)

UPDATE _ Saturday 3 July _ 7:20 pm
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Thanks weather forum guys for helping out, I am enjoying a nice rest here and just popped in to offer a brief update on developing events tonight.

Fronts are far out to the west at this time (around 25W) and racing east, hence the concern about wind gusts when they come through, which I would time for about 0400-0600 in Mayo to about 0700-1000 in Ulster and Leinster.

Expect some gusts to about 55 mph in exposed locations and 40 mph generally for a few hours, from a SW direction veering more to west.

Squally showers will accompany this and there could be some thunder especially further east. Average rainfall amounts will probably be in the 5-15 mm range, heavier towards Ulster.

The impact of these winds may appear to be a little less in southeast inland counties although all coastal districts will see some strong gusts. I hope someone from the weather forum has a chance to discuss the radar from 0600 to 0900 in case there are any locally severe storms across south-central inland counties (I won't likely have access by then). I would say at this early stage that there is some risk of localized wind damage from fast-moving cells with some hail possible too.

Looks as though Tuesday afternoon may also be quite windy in Connacht.

Otherwise, there are already demands that I get back to doing nothing, or is it the grass needs cutting? Anyway, batten down the hatches as they say. :eek:

Yes, I'm okay, on holidays ... thought I might get more time to look at the forecasts but my access is somewhat limited by a big crowd of people all staying here (family gathering) ... and then last night (like 0530 your time) I was actually going to post a forecast and the power went out, then stayed out until well after I packed it in. Some kind of mishap on the road, and this being quite an isolated place. I have posted a picture below, perhaps this will explain my absence from the computer too. Anyway, DE and some others have kindly kept things going and from what I can see, there isn't that much going on that isn't already well known to everyone, so I will stay with the holiday idea until maybe next Monday. I enjoyed the bit above about racing the greyhounds.

Anyway, here's a picture of paradise, weather has been improving too, 27 C and sunny on Tuesday, expecting 30 C each day rest of the week. You may have heard, it is ungodly hot in the eastern cities, NYC had 39 C for a high, same in DC and Baltimore was 40 C -- although it's not as humid as some of their heat waves, dew points were as low as 10 C while this heat developed.