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Summer 2019 - General Discussion
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Slashermcguirk wrote: »I agree it’s at least last Thursday when we last had rain where I am in Dublin (it can all depend where you are in Dublin). I think 0.2mm constituting a rain day is utter nonsense, that could literally fall in less than 5 mins in a light shower and you could have 12 hours of sunshine outside of that. I know that’s what met Éireann count it as but that’s very misleading as a ‘rain day’.
I am amazed that no rain fell yesterday hearing the reports of torrential rain in so many locations. It just shows how localized weather can be. It’s the same when we have snow events where you could have next to no snow in one part of Dublin and 10-20km away there could be 2-3 inches of snow. Storm Emma was a classic example with places like Kildare impassable and some neighboring counties getting a fraction of that. I have even seen a 3-4 degree difference when driving from my house to west Dublin
Its why I always used to bang on about Brays Micro-climate even relative to Dublin 12 miles to our North.
"Costa Del Bray wrapped in the sheltering embrace of the Wicklow and Dublin Mountains...", Yadda yadda yadda.
In the most common South Westerly Bray would have the longest and highest mountain track shielding us/diverting cloud around us or soaking up the worst of the wet weather like a sponge before it gets to us and/or adding a degree or two to our temperatures thanks to the Foehn effect. Being right on the coast, the Maritime layer of air can often hold back/dissolve convective cloud formation over us, leaving a several mile wide strip of clear skies over the Eastern coastal fringes while convective cloud bubbles up over the rest of the country. Summer 2014 was a classic example of that. For me in Bray and much of the Eastern Coastal fringes, the Summer of 2014 was almost as good as the Summer of 2013 for heat and blue skies, whereas for the other 95% of the country it felt like a warm but perpetually cloudy Summer after noon when the convective cloud would bubble up and fill in.
This year the last week in June, all of July and the first week of August was pretty damn good with feck all rain except the odd 5 minute convective shower passing over, broken cloud with plenty of blue skies and temps averaging 20-22ºc IIRC. Those couple of 'rain days' a couple of weeks ago really were a shock to the system or a reminder of how good we've actually had it this Summer because it reminded me that it had been several months since I'd seen enough rain for a long enough duration to see water flowing past us along the kerb or seen that big puddle that usually forms at the corner of the nearby road junction.
So, I'd have to be one of those giving Summer 2019 a 7/10. Didn't utter my infamous catchphrase, Costa Del Bray or Playa Del Arklow once this Summer though because I could see early on how Tetchy those West of the Wicklow Mountains all the way to the west coast were getting and I didn't want to rub them the wrong way.
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Some rainfall stats for this summer so far (up to yesterday) from all of the reporting Met Eireann stations. Table ordered by highest to lowest in terms of 'percentage of dry days' relative to the stated duration. The numbers represent the number of days with stated totals or more.
New Moon
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Some rainfall stats for this summer so far (up to yesterday) from all of the reporting Met Eireann stations. Table ordered by highest to lowest in terms of 'percentage of dry days' relative to the stated duration. The numbers represent the number of days with stated totals or more.
Crikey, belmullet not the place to be this summer!!!0 -
Some rainfall stats for this summer so far (up to yesterday) from all of the reporting Met Eireann stations. Table ordered by highest to lowest in terms of 'percentage of dry days' relative to the stated duration. The numbers represent the number of days with stated totals or more.
Only 8 days with over 5mm of rain at Phoenix park, that is impressive0 -
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