Memorable and hot Irish summers

g5fd6ow0hseima · 17-08-2008 07:13PM

Ah sure wouldnt we all rather the fact that were up our own arses with the economy instead of a summer of possible enjoyment......

17-08-2008 09:52PM

does april 2006 count?

Is that as good as it gets now ?

deleriumtremens · 31-08-2008 05:52PM

I was only 5 in 1995 but i can still vaguely remember it as a hot summer! Ive seen photographs from then aswel to back that up.
Also, I remember there was a good 2 or 3 weeks of unbroken sunshine in June 2006.
As for 2007 and 2008, easily the worst summers weatherwise that I can remember!! But maybe im wrong.
Also, were the summers of the 1980's really as sunny as my brother tells me they were?

Dudess · 01-09-2008 10:34PM

DublinWriter wrote: »

I can't believe no one has mentioned the summer of 1990.

Ole Ole Ole and all that, I remember it being really hot during that World Cup.

Strangely enough I only remember a little bit of that summer being hot - actually I associate Italia '90 with dull but dry weather. Maybe the weather was better in Dublin though.

Yeah 1989 and 1995 are the hottest summers I remember - there were serious drought warnings in '89.

It appears a couple of people have already forgotten the scorcher that was just two years ago

- horrendously hot!

I remember that short stretch but slightly longer than the usual token few warm days in 2003 - I got food poisoning from shellfish, possibly caused by insufficiently cold storage.

I was only 5 and 6 in '83 and '84 but I remember them being really warm and the unusual experience of sunny caravan holidays in Kerry

The summer of '76 is supposed to be the king of them all though...

Lizzykins · 02-09-2008 01:11PM

I remember 1976 as the best summer ever. I was 14. 1995 was fantastic too.

leprehaungirl · 06-09-2008 10:33AM

Yeah i remember 1995 aswell i was only five and me and all my cousins spent almost everyday on the beach in Portran.Good times

Goldfingers · 08-08-2011 06:03PM

Dudess wrote: »

Strangely enough I only remember a little bit of that summer being hot - actually I associate Italia '90 with dull but dry weather. Maybe the weather was better in Dublin though.

Yeah 1989 and 1995 are the hottest summers I remember - there were serious drought warnings in '89.

It appears a couple of people have already forgotten the scorcher that was just two years ago - horrendously hot!

Are you sure you've got the right year? 2009 ? Heres a piece of how Met Eireann records it.
I remember that short stretch but slightly longer than the usual token few warm days in 2003 - I got food poisoning from shellfish, possibly caused by insufficiently cold storage.

I was only 5 and 6 in '83 and '84 but I remember them being really warm and the unusual experience of sunny caravan holidays in Kerry

The summer of '76 is supposed to be the king of them all though...

Are you sure you've got the right summer? 2009 ? Heres how Met Eireann records it.
Rainfall totals were above normal everywhere for the third successive summer, It was also the
wettest summer on record at Mullingar, where observations started in 1950, There was rainfall recorded on almost every day during July and August. A total of between 43 and 52 wetdays (days with
1mm or more rainfall) was recorded at most stations for the 3-month period, compared with the normal range for
summer of between 32 and 38 wetdays; in parts of the south and west there were between 57 and 63 wetdays
measured. There were some heavy daily falls throughout the season, often associated with thunderstorms. Daily
falls of around 50mm were measured in both the east and west of the country on July 2nd, while there was severe
flooding locally in some parts of the north and west following heavy rain on both June 23rd and August 23rd.
The Poulter index is a method of rating the summer weather (June to August), using a formula based on mean
temperature, rainfall and sunshine for each station, i.e. the higher the index, the 'better' the summer weather. This
summer, the index at Valentia Observatory was well below normal (its lowest since summer 1985)

Niles · 08-08-2011 08:35PM

I was only seven but I remember the summer of 1995 being a good one too, dried grass, camping in the garden. I did my Leaving in 2006 and seem to remember good weather that summer, at least compared to what followed in 2007. Of course 2006 would be the summer my neighbourhood suffered a water shortage, you just can't win.

Dudess · 09-08-2011 10:09PM

Goldfingers wrote: »

Are you sure you've got the right summer? 2009 ?

My post is from 2008. I was referring to the summer of 2006.

Yeah, every summer since then (bar last year, which wasn't amazing but it wasn't the worst) has been sh1te. :-/

Thomas828 · 17-08-2011 11:48PM

The earliest hot summer I remember was 1976. Belfast was baking! The pond in Alexandra Park dried up completely and the stench that came from it was indescribable.

Other great summers I remember were 1983, 1984, 1989, 1990 and 1995.

Summer 2011 has been mediocre at best.

vektarman · 18-08-2011 10:42AM

Summer 1976 the Royal and Grand canals evaporated and you could cross from one bank to another on dry canal beds.

jupiterjack · 09-04-2012 03:01PM

i remember it rained on 21st june 95 and my father saying thats it summer gone and its all down hill, well from then on it got warmer and warmer,was no rain until end of september with temps reaching 30degrees and blue skies for that summer oh to ave those daysback..

HavingCrack · 19-04-2012 05:41PM

2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011...all rubbish :mad:.

Scanlas The 2nd · 20-04-2012 12:42PM

I thought 2010 was decent.

lividduck · 20-04-2012 08:35PM

old enough to remember 1976, and the music and the great fun in the sun!
Nothing has touched since except for perhaps 2005 and 2006 which was good but nothing matches 1995!

ruadhri44 · 21-04-2012 09:02PM

Here how I remember it.

1981 Good summer
1982 Better
1983 Mighty
1984 Even Mightier.

1985 First wet summer I remember. Awfull
1986 Awfull
1987 not as bad as 85 or 86 but still bad.
1988 Awfull

1989 Wonderfull July, August was awfull but the end of August brightened up lovely.
1990 Very hot and sunny

1991 Awfull
1992 Bad beyond belief.
1993 Awfull
1994 Awfull

1995 Brilliant. Long hot and sunny

1996 Awfull
1997 Bad but not as bad as prevous bad summers.
1998 Bit better than 97 but still bad.
1999 Dry and sunny but unseasonally cold

2000 Wonderfull.

2001 Awfull
2002 Awfull

2003 Bad July but good August

2004 Awfull
2005 bad but better than previous bad summers
2006 better than 05 but still not great.

2007 Awfull
2008 Awfull
2009 Awfull
2010 Awfull
2011 Awfull.

stabeek · 21-04-2012 10:29PM

I won't give a link, because there's always google, but there's a good article on Bagatelle's "Summer in Dublin" ... was it 1980? But the article is not so much nostalgic as acerbic ...
Ok .. I lloked it up the article is ref. http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/i-remember-that-summer-in-dublin-and-it-was-bloody-awful-2262598.html

littleteapot · 22-04-2012 10:15PM

1995 is the only spectacular summer I remember. I was 10 and I used to rob money out of the Trocaire box to buy ice cream from the ice cream van. The fact we still had our Trocaire box in the summer doesn't make me feel any better about it!
I know 2006 was supposed to be really good too, but I was on my J1 that summer so I was scorched in Baltimore instead.
Does April 2007 count as summer?

chakotha · 23-04-2012 02:54PM

1983 and 1984 were great Summers. I was in Jersey in 1995 and it was a scorcher over there.

kelle · 24-04-2012 05:24PM

ruadhri44 wrote: »

Here how I remember it.

1981 Good summer
1982 Better
1983 Mighty
1984 Even Mightier.

1985 First wet summer I remember. Awfull
1986 Awfull
1987 not as bad as 85 or 86 but still bad.
1988 Awfull

1989 Wonderfull July, August was awfull but the end of August brightened up lovely.
1990 Very hot and sunny

1991 Awfull
1992 Bad beyond belief.
1993 Awfull
1994 Awfull

1995 Brilliant. Long hot and sunny

1996 Awfull
1997 Bad but not as bad as prevous bad summers.
1998 Bit better than 97 but still bad.
1999 Dry and sunny but unseasonally cold

2000 Wonderfull.

2001 Awfull
2002 Awfull

2003 Bad July but good August

2004 Awfull
2005 bad but better than previous bad summers
2006 better than 05 but still not great.

2007 Awfull
2008 Awfull
2009 Awfull
2010 Awfull
2011 Awfull.

OMG Ruaidhri you have an amazing memory - though I don't remember 1983 being mighty. There was a couple of lovely weeks in June, but my poor father lost fields of hay because there was about 6 weeks of wet weather!

Lawrence1895 · 25-04-2012 10:19AM

The first half of June 2007.

Came back from Cork on the Intercity, got a mild heat stroke in Heuston Station on the platform

ruadhri44 · 29-04-2012 01:01AM

kelle wrote: »

OMG Ruaidhri you have an amazing memory - though I don't remember 1983 being mighty. There was a couple of lovely weeks in June, but my poor father lost fields of hay because there was about 6 weeks of wet weather!

That is very strange. I do remember that infact it was a wonderfull summer. It was at any rate in the west and north of Ireland. I remember it perfectly.

Are you sure its not the summer of 85 you are thinking about. That is infact the first wet summer I remember. Since they mostly seemed to be wet.

nlgbbbblth · 29-04-2012 04:23PM

1983 was great - beach nearly every weekend from June through August.

1985 - I played a lot of tennis and distinctly remember a good few days playing in the wet.

ruadhri44 · 29-04-2012 05:00PM

Just like I remember. 1983, brilliant summer.

bridget84 · 25-05-2012 02:07PM

1995. I was 11 years old and probably spent the entire Summer in the back garden with my older sister listening to Atlantic 252. I remember it as the only real scorcher of a Summer. We've had nothing like it since.:(

kelle · 28-05-2012 03:08PM

ruadhri44 wrote: »

That is very strange. I do remember that infact it was a wonderfull summer. It was at any rate in the west and north of Ireland. I remember it perfectly.

Are you sure its not the summer of 85 you are thinking about. That is infact the first wet summer I remember. Since they mostly seemed to be wet.

No Ruaidhri, it was definitely 1983 - just before I started secondary school. There was a 2 week heatwave in June, Dad cut the hay and didn't manage to get it baled before the weather broke in July. There was a month of rain and by the time the good weather returned in mid-August he had to dump it. He still cried about it into his pints for years afterwards!

I just found this article about the Summer of 1976 - memories

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4144891/The-drought-of-1976-Sun-columnist-Rod-Liddle-looks-back-on-balmy-summer.html

(people were advised to share baths :eek:

ruadhri44 · 03-06-2012 05:30PM

Alas I beg to differ. I remember it being utterly wonderful. The first wet summer I remember was 1985. Certainly the summer of 1983 was mighty up round Sligo and Tyrone.

nlgbbbblth · 03-06-2012 08:37PM

It was great in Wexford too. During July I picked a lot of strawberries in the mornings and hit the beach in the afternoons.

ongarboy · 08-06-2012 04:03PM

I remember 1983, 84, 89, 90, 95, 03 and 06 being exceptional summers (with 95 being the standout - I was working in Limerick city at the time and couldn't get over how warm the nights were - I don't think the temps dropped below 19 or 20 by night during that particular heatwave and regularly hitting 30 by day).

It's funny, I've lived in hot places (Chicago in summer, California, Sydney etc) and travelled to many more (Alice Springs,Las Vegas, Dubai) but the heat I felt in the summer of 95 in Ireland seemed far more "roasting" then the heat anywhere else

ruadhri44 · 09-06-2012 11:09AM

ongarboy wrote: »

I remember 1983, 84, 89, 90, 95, 03 and 06 being exceptional summers (with 95 being the standout - I was working in Limerick city at the time and couldn't get over how warm the nights were - I don't think the temps dropped below 19 or 20 by night during that particular heatwave and regularly hitting 30 by day).

It's funny, I've lived in hot places (Chicago in summer, California, Sydney etc) and travelled to many more (Alice Springs,Las Vegas, Dubai) but the heat I felt in the summer of 95 in Ireland seemed far more "roasting" then the heat anywhere else

You are mostly right about those summers. However while August 03 was mighty, July 03 was very wet which is unusual since whatever way July is, August usually follows suit.

As for 06, I remember it being wet but not as wet as previous years. I think 06 was a year that we nearly got a way with a good summer but not quiet. Mind you compared to the previous summers and the summers that followed it wasn't too bad at all.

Memorable and hot Irish summers

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