OldRio wrote: » I wonder, can you tell me the distance in miles/kilometers from Grange to Ballinamore in Leitrim ? In other words the weather in 'Grange' is somewhat different to the weather not just in Ballinamore but the rest of the country.
sryanbruen wrote: » 106 miles and 170km. Do you want me to give ya the exact values of sunshine on each of those days?
OldRio wrote: » Not interested in Grange but in Leitrim yes please.
sryanbruen wrote: » I can estimate only for Leitrim since I don't work there. Here are your estimates on each of those days 7th June - 14 hours 8th June - 15 hours 9th June - 14 hours 10th June - 14 hours 23rd June - 1 hour 30th June - 0 hours 3rd July - 7 hours 12th August - 9 hours 13th August - 10 hours 14th August - 8 hours 18th August - 6 hours 20th August - 3 hours 21st August - 3 hours
OldRio wrote: » Estimate ? I understand you do not work here but to estimate an entire county just seems so so wrong.
sryanbruen wrote: » I was estimating using my interactive satellites as well as Met Éireann's summaries - in which you can check out the closest station to your place on the graph which is Belmullet in Mayo. Other stations on the graph include Valentia Observatory and Dublin Airport. It isn't so wrong. You asked for your sunshine totals on those days, I gave you them? I can't give exact values cause I don't work there! I can't say it any simpler.
OldRio wrote: » No you did not. You gave an estimate. An estimate from Belmullet. Valentia and Dublin Airport? For Leitrim. The June figures you quote are to put it mildly, embarrassing.
sryanbruen wrote: » These are all the very sunny days (10 hours or more) Grange recorded this Summer: 7th June 8th June 9th June 10th June 23rd June 30th June 3rd July 12th August 13th August 14th August 18th August 20th August 21st August
Oneiric 3 wrote: » Always great stats Syranbruen, but stats from the Dublin area mean very little to those of us in the west and northwest. You are not comparing like with like. Sunshine and rainfall totals can be vastly different between east and west, even over a small island like ours. OldRio, I would recommend looking at sunshine totals from Knock Apt to get an rough idea for your region as the north Mayo climate would be roughly similar to that of Leitrim.
sryanbruen wrote: » Then look at my attachments for Summer 2015's sunshine and rainfall totals
Oneiric 3 wrote: » It is interesting that July's sunshine totals were the dullest since 1986 as this year too had an unusually long consecutive run of cooler than average months which, similar to this year, may have been due to the cooler than average SSTs in the North Atlantic. One difference between 1986 and this year is that 1986 saw more extremes of cold temperatures; 2015 on the other-hand, while consistently cool, has saw a remarkable lack deeply cold temps (so far at least!)
sryanbruen wrote: » See the attachment below of June 2015's sunshine totals (estimated to nearest hour) at Ireland's synoptic stations.
Schadenfreudia wrote: » Given the huge variation on this island due to the interaction of prevailing wind with orthography that is a miserably poor sunshine-recording system, now that I think of it.
sryanbruen wrote: » Well I just copied it from Met Éireann because I only record Grange's sunshine totals.
sryanbruen wrote: » Was 1982 a bad, good or average Summer?
Sam Kade wrote: » 1981 was a wash out 1982 was a great summer.
sryanbruen wrote: » Are u sure 1982 was a good summer 'cause the two following were good summers {1983 and 1984} before the infamous period of exceptionally poor summers from 1985 - 1988?
