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Gonzo · 15-07-2018 12:38am

still very warm here for the time of night, almost 20C.

Rock Lesnar · 15-07-2018 1:10am

Just back home from the south of spain and pleasantly surprised to find its still dry and warm here

SleetAndSnow · 15-07-2018 1:16am

I’ll be back in cork city on Monday night from Tenerife, wonder how it’ll be haha. Assuming cooler and clouded then we Left with some light showers but I can still imagine that the grass will be burnt

Itssoeasy · 15-07-2018 1:17am

In cork today there was cooling slightly. I was at a birthday party and it was warm enough in a back garden.

scottigael · 15-07-2018 7:09am

Woke up this morning to rain, cant believe my eyes! Had forgotten what it looked like.

sunnyday1234 · 15-07-2018 8:03am

scottigael wrote: »

Woke up this morning to rain, cant believe my eyes! Had forgotten what it looked like.

Same here in north cork . Great to see it back

harr · 15-07-2018 8:10am

Warm overcast morning here on the kildare/laois Border humidity up to 80 and 18c . Somehow last nights band of showers missed us and took off northeastward...
Was really expecting to wake to rain..

Irish_rat · 15-07-2018 8:25am

Hot rain in Limerick, nice to see it back.

lawred2 · 15-07-2018 8:27am

Barely a sprinkling in North Dublin..

Grey and overcast though

Rock Lesnar · 15-07-2018 8:58am

Drizzly rain here this morning

Ultimate Seduction · 15-07-2018 9:02am

Heavey consistent drizzle falling last few hours. Grass looking a small bit healthier already.

dieselbug · 15-07-2018 9:41am

Starting raining here at about 09.00 and stopped again after about twenty min's. Just enough to keep the dust down so far.

mrsoundie · 15-07-2018 9:51am

Consistent bit of rain here now, its light but the ground needs it.

sryanbruen · 15-07-2018 9:52am

It's getting confusing going from one thread to another here.

km79 · 15-07-2018 9:57am

sryanbruen wrote: »

It's getting confusing going from one thread to another here.

I agree there are too many threads now

aka accounts 2010 · 15-07-2018 10:01am

Consistent drizzle here in West Waterford since 8.30am this morning.

Jennehy · 15-07-2018 10:02am

km79 wrote: »

I agree there are too many threads now

Is it today the drought is ending?

Lia_lia · 15-07-2018 10:04am

Strongest rain I've heard in Cork city in a long time. It's still a drizzle...but it's something.

JCX BXC · 15-07-2018 10:12am

Jennehy wrote: »

Is it today the drought is ending?

The absolute drought is ending, as there is rainfall. However drought conditions will continue in most areas.

sryanbruen · 15-07-2018 10:25am

Guess it's time to close the doors on this spell of weather which for me personally was easily one of my favourite times in weather in my life so far (of course, Nov/Dec 2010 is the cherry on top). I think this was my best captured shot during the spell. It was taken on Bray Head on the evening of Sunday 24th June.

harr · 15-07-2018 10:32am

Raining now...:mad: first drop in many weeks. I know it’s badly needed but hate seeing the dry spell come to an end.
Hopefully we will have another good run at it before end of summer...

sideswipe · 15-07-2018 10:49am

harr wrote: »

Raining now...:mad: first drop in many weeks. I know it’s badly needed but hate seeing the dry spell come to an end.
Hopefully we will have another good run at it before end of summer...

Don’t be fatalistic about it. The weather doesn’t end.... it’s mid July, plenty of time for more summer weather. The ideal scenario is to get a good soaking for a week and then have a nice Azores high build again! I know we live in a location we’re a weather pattern can become stuck, so seeing an Atlantic influence take hold again can mean we enter a longer period of unsettled weather. But 2018 seems to be the year that keeps giving.... lets hope for another omega block this summer and then an epic beasterly at the end of the year to cap an epic weather year!!

iamwhoiam · 15-07-2018 11:08am

I have my suspicions it rained in SW Dublin ! The paving slaps were suddenly damp for a few minutes and then dry again quickly . I see no other evidence of it at all !

Gonzo · 15-07-2018 11:42am

it rained here a little bit earlier, the evidence still on the garden furniture.

Last night was very warm throughout and still feeling warmish right now despite the cloud and drizzle.

I am hoping for a few warm, sunny days around next weekend.

Donegal Storm · 15-07-2018 11:47am

Hasn't this thread run its course at this stage? There's at least four different threads on essentially the same thing at the moment!

Tigerandahalf · 15-07-2018 11:52am

They should close it and put it as a sticky to remind us all in 20 years time what a good summer is really like.

It certainly would be a nice timeshot of the great spell of weather.

giveitholly · 15-07-2018 11:54am

Yeah in fairness this has been an epic thread

BorneTobyWilde · 15-07-2018 12:04pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15kWlTrpt5k

Verity. · 15-07-2018 12:11pm

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Beautiful morning in SW Dublin today and a stillness about too , not a puff of wind . The birds are gone very quiet here which is odd

Normally our garden would be full of birds, things had gone eerily quiet until this morning. It has rained most of last night and today here, and little robins and chaffinches are back at our door. They had just gone off the radar altogether.

So glad to see the rain today, plants getting a good soaking. I can smell the earth again.

dieselbug · 15-07-2018 1:24pm

sryanbruen wrote: »

Guess it's time to close the doors on this spell of weather which for me personally was easily one of my favourite times in weather in my life so far (of course, Nov/Dec 2010 is the cherry on top). I think this was my best captured shot during the spell. It was taken on Bray Head on the evening of Sunday 24th June.

Lovely shot. I was trying to remember what it's called when you shoot in to the sun.

Contre-jour??

Google has all the answers.

leahyl · 15-07-2018 1:32pm

OMG I can hear rain outside!!!! :-O

Mobhi1 · 15-07-2018 1:35pm

Much cooler today at 18.0C. The high was 19.6C just after midnight. There is also rain. The ground is wet. There has been 2.0mm recorded today.

dieselbug · 15-07-2018 1:38pm

Around here the tar on the roads came to the surface on the warmer days and today in the wet they look like they have been painted with black gloss, could be a bit slippery I'd say.

highdef · 15-07-2018 1:47pm

Verity. wrote: »

Normally our garden would be full of birds, things had gone eerily quiet until this morning. It has rained most of last night and today here, and little robins and chaffinches are back at our door. They had just gone off the radar altogether.

So glad to see the rain today, plants getting a good soaking. I can smell the earth again.

Have you been feeding them during this dry spell? As you can recognise the various species, I can only assume you're wildlife friendly and are helping them survive this tough time. I'm going through 2kg of bird feed every second day at the moment as the small birds have little else to eat. So happy that I'm keeping the little birds going strong.

degsie · 15-07-2018 2:24pm

Sorry lads 'n lassies, whats this wet droplet thingy falling from the sky right now called?

Verity. · 15-07-2018 2:52pm

highdef wrote: »

Have you been feeding them during this dry spell? As you can recognise the various species, I can only assume you're wildlife friendly and are helping them survive this tough time. I'm going through 2kg of bird feed every second day at the moment as the small birds have little else to eat. So happy that I'm keeping the little birds going strong.

Yes we do feed the birds, they are a joy to have around and I know they struggle at certain times of the year. We put out an array of nuts and seeds etc but do you know something? The birds hardly go near them since the summer arrived. We live in the countryside, and the only thing I can put that down to is the availability of berries or wild foods?

Still raining here, heavily enough too

Whispered · 15-07-2018 3:17pm

I leave water out for the wildlife but not much food. There are various berries around the house and we have loads of birds around. Some sort of animal has been snuffing around at night too, driving the dogs mad!

sdanseo · 15-07-2018 3:21pm

4,540 posts on a thread that wasn't about snow has to be some sort of record.

Meteorite58 · 15-07-2018 3:40pm

Mod Note: As we are entering a cooler period away from heat wave conditions with temperatures forecast by Met Eireann to reach 18-21C today and top temps odf 16-20C tomorrow and probably tops of 20 or 21C for the following days it is best to close this thread for now and thank Kermit for starting it and keeping the informative posts flowing and all the other contributors for making it a must go to thread every day.

Please continue to post in the Summer Discussion Thread or one of the other more specific threads.

Until the next one.

Gaoth Laidir · 15-07-2018 8:30pm

Pity the heatwave thread is closed. I did up this map of absolute maximum temperatures recorded at all stations and airports during this heatwave. Maybe a mod can stick it in there for the record?

The round temperature icons show the maximum rounded temperatures from the regional airports' METARs.

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