Scanlas The 2nd wrote: » Where's this global warming we've all been promised?
smash wrote: » They renamed it to climate change because global warming was a myth.
zerks wrote: » But we'd get sunburn:(
TiltedBrain wrote: » Lads its roasting outside, get off your keyboards and go out and enjoy it
Toby Take a Bow wrote: » No, they renamed it climate change because people didn't get the 'global' part of global warming, instead questioning how there could be global warming if it was cold in Ireland today.
murpho999 wrote: » I really wonder if people have ever been abroad and experienced anything over 28 degrees.
murpho999 wrote: » Global warming relates to the average temperature of the planet and does not account for local weather. Some would argue that wetter summers are caused by global warming. Either way global warming is real.
Sappa wrote: » I can't for my 31 years remember a ****tier summer than we have just had. Depressing weather not 3 good days in a row and a major let down.
marcsignal wrote: » I remember the summer of 1981 was as bad. So bad in fact, that when a heatwave finally arrived on Thursday August 27th, and was predicted to last a fortnight, the Government allowed the schools to remain closed for an extra 2 weeks, extending the summer holidays. School was supposed to resume on Tuesday Sept 1st, and did not resume until Tuesday Sept 15th. This is not a wind up, I remember it very well, I was going into 3rd year in secondary school at the time.
who the fug wrote: » Wrong teachers went on strike, my mother shipped me off to my grand uncle in dublin to get rid of me
marcsignal wrote: » You sure that was 1981 ? I remember a 2 week long teachers strike when I was in secondary, but don't think it was Sept 1981. If I'm not mistaken, I think I have an old newspaper from the time relating to this. It will be among a ton of similar newspapers and stuff, from significant and quirky events that I collect, but I'll see if I can dig it out.
kelle wrote: » TBH I can't remember one good Summer since 2006! I started running this year, and I found it easy because I didn't have to endure high temperatures during races - it was always cool, windy or raining buckets much to my delight
LizT wrote: » It's Ireland. Why are people always so surprised when we have a sh1te summer?
holystungun9 wrote: » Sh1te weather is just a state of mind... Greetings from sunny warm Madrid.
df1985 wrote: » today would be classed as a cracker in comparison to how ****e the rest of the summer was, only about 20 degrees.
who the fug wrote: » I started secondary in 1980, in 2nd year we did not start back for two weeks because of a strike. Which was great, because I got taken to the Botanical gardens, Natural History Museem, walked up the to the Three rock, and other parts of dublin, by this ex British army officer/IRA Man/Papal Knight give kids a break in the eighties because of weather,you is having a giraffe