Worst summer ever

today would be classed as a cracker in comparison to how ****e the rest of the summer was, only about 20 degrees.

zerks wrote: »

But we'd get sunburn:(

I didn't say you had to move to the Mediterranean... you could always go to the north of France.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

LizT wrote: »

It's Ireland. Why are people always so surprised when we have a sh1te summer?

Growing up summer was generally sh1te, but once every few years we had a good solid one, and even the rest of the summers usually had one or two periods of really good weather lasting a few weeks. Put basically, most summers you had a long enough spell to leave yourself with a tan for a few weeks or months.

I think it was 2008 I remember we had maybe 2 or 3 sunny days. It was after that that I decided that mentally I could not stick another summer back home. Even if our economy was not tits up I still would not be living in Ireland, the weather is too awful. I would gladly live back home if we had the same weather as the rest of Northern and Central Europe- a bitter winter in exchange for 3 or 4 months of great weather.

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

Actually, you're spot on who the fug, fair play to your memory.

I have the clipping here from the Evening Press which reads..

'Indian Summer beckons as Teachers strike looms'

...with just a pic of a crowd on a beach somewhere. I've no scanner but will try to post later.

Can't imaging the kids are too happy about our half decent weather right now

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.

I'm sick of people giving out about the weather. There were so many days this year that I was stuck in work, schweatin' me head off, wishing I was outside in the sun. So many days. We had about 20 or 30 days with temperatures up around 18, 19, 20 degrees and higher. Plenty of nice days in April, May, June, July, August and September has been pretty good so far.

It was a grand summer.

Don't forget about the nice heat wave back in March.