Summer 2019 - General Discussion

Zipppy · 12-06-2019 8:13pm

I have friends semi retired out there and others looking over there...
Growing old in the sun living an outdoor life appeals a lot...
Bring it on...
Whereabouts are your parents?

Donegal Storm · 12-06-2019 8:14pm

sryanbruen wrote: »

Here's the low maximum temperature records for several long-term Irish stations. 11 June 1977 a very common date to many of them.

6th of June 1987 was another miserable one with a high of just 9C in places

Thelonious Monk · 12-06-2019 8:17pm

Zipppy wrote: »

I have friends semi retired out there and others looking over there...
Growing old in the sun living an outdoor life appeals a lot...
Bring it on...
Whereabouts are your parents?

Not far from Cartagena, close to the airport that closed down last year. My brother lives in Malta so all I get are pictures from these places of beaches and patios and big meals outside and all the lovely things you can do in a good climate! Meanwhile it's like bloody Mordor or something around here it's so dark and miserable.

MidMan25 · 12-06-2019 8:22pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Not far from Cartagena, close to the airport that closed down last year. My brother lives in Malta so all I get are pictures from these places of beaches and patios and big meals outside and all the lovely things you can do in a good climate! Meanwhile it's like bloody Mordor or something around here it's so dark and miserable.

Weather thread

endainoz · 12-06-2019 8:22pm

Kutebride wrote:

Rain all day. Dublin 2 and Meath. A waste of a long evening indoors. Dark and dreary. Making the silage over in the west I'm hearing

Sure are! Rain was lucky to hold off, bit of a howling wind out there now though.

km79 · 12-06-2019 8:38pm

pad199207 wrote: »

Another frustrating thing is the fact that we can’t really say the weather is always ****e here. Last summer proved just how beautiful it can be here.

Just this round of weather would make anyone cry.

AND I MISSED THE BLOODY HEATWAVE
and came back to people pissing and moaning about it

km79 · 12-06-2019 8:39pm

km79 wrote: »

Feels milder than yday in the west
Slightly less bite in the wind

Well that changed.....I went to watch a match down the road. Despiite having a jumper and a body warmer I gave in and went home after HT
FROZEN

sryanbruen · 12-06-2019 9:00pm

Gonzo wrote: »

The temperatures would also be something else. In the past week we've seen temperatures under 2C at night in parts and daytime temperatures as low as 9C, we would be having ice days if this was December, January or even February.

Our upper air temperatures gives a good idea of why we are so cold right now. You have to go as far as the north pole to get uppers as cold as what is over Ireland right now. Even most of Greenland and Iceland has warmer uppers than us. It got close to 20C today in Iceland, meanwhile Ireland has struggled to get much past 11C in most parts.

Several stations in western Greenland reached over 20c ðŸ™„

https://twitter.com/kilkennyweather/status/1138895789755965442?s=21

Clonmel1000 · 12-06-2019 9:23pm

It’s started to rain again here. I’m not sure how cold it is out but it’s cold enough to have the heat on. It’s also very dark.

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 12-06-2019 9:52pm

Horrible day for sure.

appledrop · 12-06-2019 9:53pm

I was thinking what it is that makes this May/June so bad + realised it's everything! The wind has finally died down but I never remember so many days with such a cold wind that bits through you. That's the first thing. Then we have had all the rain. Yes we have had rainy summers but not usually accompanied by such cold winds + freezing temperatures. To top it all off everyday is dull with very little sunshine. All combined together =misery!!!!!

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 12-06-2019 9:55pm

To be fair May was dry.

Today is the worst summers day I remember for a long time. Rain all daylight hours in summer is rare here in Dublin.

appledrop · 12-06-2019 10:03pm

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

To be fair May was dry.

Today is the worst summers day I remember for a long time. Rain all daylight hours in summer is rare here in Dublin.

Eh you must have a very short memory we had nearly this exact same day less than 2 weeks ago on 4th June! 24mm of rain that day in Dublin.

Larbre34 · 12-06-2019 10:20pm

"Zipppy wrote: »

this is no country to grow old in..wet cold corrupt gombeen ripOff ... feck that...

If gombeenism isn't your bag, I REALLY wouldn't choose Spain as a new home! But then the weather might make you forget the local fecklessness

Artane2002 · 12-06-2019 10:46pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

If gombeenism isn't your bag, I REALLY wouldn't choose Spain as a new home! But then the weather might make you forget the local fecklessness

Sapporo in Japan is my ideal climate. They get metres of snow each winter on average and they get mid twenties for summers on average.

Gonzo · 12-06-2019 11:23pm

still raining here in Meath, hasn't let up all day, most of it light, but complete misery from one end of the day to the other and properly cold too.

more of the same tomorrow for Leinster, but it may dry up later on in the day.

Xenji · 12-06-2019 11:35pm

Artane2002 wrote: »

Sapporo in Japan is my ideal climate. They get metres of snow each winter on average and they get mid twenties for summers on average.

It has a lovely beer museum as well.

pad199207 · 12-06-2019 11:39pm

Look at all that lovely warm air and brilliant thunderstorms all the way into Norway and Sweden.
I give up....

km79 · 13-06-2019 8:04am

Nearly slept in due to it being so dark in the room
This time of year the brightness is usually creeping on either side of curtains after 6
Still look night time right now

JCX BXC · 13-06-2019 8:30am

km79 wrote: »

Nearly slept in due to it being so dark in the room
This time of year the brightness is usually creeping on either side of curtains after 6
Still look night time right now

Hard to get up I'd agree!

km79 · 13-06-2019 8:31am

Just stepped outside
Apparently into November
SO COLD

The Specialist · 13-06-2019 8:37am

If I squint really really really hard out the office window...I can't see anything, so I can pretend the sun is out there and not a mass of grey miserable ****e

ronnie3585 · 13-06-2019 9:08am

km79 wrote: »

Just stepped outside
Apparently into November
SO COLD

Feels exactly the same in Galway City. It's like a cold, grey November day.

carltonleon · 13-06-2019 9:21am

It's an absolute beautiful sunny day around Dublin City Centre, not a cloud in the sky and 23c ... absolutely gorgeous out ......

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Think it may be time I took this VR headset off !!!!

Calibos · 13-06-2019 10:15am

carltonleon wrote: »

It's an absolute beautiful sunny day around Dublin City Centre, not a cloud in the sky and 23c ... absolutely gorgeous out ......

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Think it may be time I took this VR headset off !!!!

Same here in Bray. I could feel the burning radiant heat of the Sun on my face through the 'windscreen' and my vehicle started overheating.
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I'd come out of Hyperspace too close to a star!

pauldry · 13-06-2019 10:28am

10c but wind chill of 4 or 5c today.

I think coldest June on record will be scuppered though as next week looks slightly milder.

But after then it could get cold once more so it will be a top 5 cold June surely

Hooter23 · 13-06-2019 10:38am

People going around Galway with winter jackets and wooly hats on in the middle of June...only in ireland sure:pac:

Thelonious Monk · 13-06-2019 11:11am

Is it possible we wont breach 20c in Dublin this June? Has that happened before?

Xenji · 13-06-2019 11:22am

Just 9.6C in Castlebar and feeling colder in a moderate breeze that is gusting close to 60 km/hr.

kingshankly · 13-06-2019 11:22am

11 degrees here in the north east feels a good 3/4 degrees leas this has got to be record breaking stuff for the middle of june

Gonzo · 13-06-2019 11:25am

cold, cloudy and damp in Meath this morning. Definitely up there with one of the coldest days I've ever felt in any Irish summer.

Gonzo · 13-06-2019 11:33am

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Is it possible we wont breach 20c in Dublin this June? Has that happened before?

we will see how the rest of the month pans out, but so far it's looking unlikely we will reach 20C this month, unless it warms up properly into the last few days of the month. Getting beyond 14C has even been a struggle a this month. 19C is my warmest temperature this month and that was on the 1st, temperature fell off the cliff after that.

pauldry · 13-06-2019 11:47am

Same here it was 20c in Collooney on June 1st but since then 17c yesterday the top

Very shocked just there to see that the middle part of last June (the scorcher!) was freezing cold in Northwest too.

I spoke to someone and they said the Northwest had some sea fog type days during this period and drizzly ones too.

Mobhi1 · 13-06-2019 11:51am

Gonzo wrote: »

we will see how the rest of the month pans out, but so far it's looking unlikely we will reach 20C this month, unless it warms up properly into the last few days of the month. Getting beyond 14C has even been a struggle a this month. 19C is my warmest temperature this month and that was on the 1st, temperature fell off the cliff after that.

The first two days of this month I recorded highs of 19.2C. It hasn't got anywhere near that since.

Zipppy · 13-06-2019 12:32pm

Hooter23 wrote: »

People going around Galway with winter jackets and wooly hats on in the middle of June...only in ireland sure:pac:

I haven't really taken off my winter jacket and wooly hat this year yet

pauldry · 13-06-2019 12:48pm

That bloomin Arctic has the whole Jet Stream f$$ked

pad199207 · 13-06-2019 12:59pm

Looks like it could be drying up a bit out there.

Gonzo · 13-06-2019 1:29pm

signs of temperatures becoming normal again from next Friday 21st of June with temperatures peaking at 16 or 17C across the country, staying in the low to mid teens up to then, which would make 3 weeks of temperatures well below normal.

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Gonzo · 13-06-2019 2:01pm

pad199207 wrote: »

Looks like it could be drying up a bit out there.

still damp here, but a very slow drying trend, however it's possibly even colder than yesterday. We will have the -2C upper air temperatures @850hpa sitting over us for next 24 hours which is fairly exceptional for mid June.

Kutebride · 13-06-2019 2:07pm

Winter coat on walk to schools his afternoon. I stopped at putting on gloves .....just!

Clonmel1000 · 13-06-2019 2:27pm

Gonzo wrote: »

signs of temperatures becoming normal again from next Friday 21st of June with temperatures peaking at 16 or 17C across the country, staying in the low to mid teens up to then, which would make 3 weeks of temperatures well below normal.

Is there dry settled weather coming with that or just more of the same unsettled stuff? Thanks

Oneiric 3 · 13-06-2019 2:44pm

Reached over 17c here in the west yesterday, which if anything, was a little above normal for the time of year. Now that the clouds are breaking I'd not be surprised to see something similar recorded this afternoon.

One thing I will say is how crap the ECMWF has been with regards temperature forecasts for my region recently. It has consistently forecast lower daytime temperatures than what has actually occurred. An increasingly over-rated model in my opinion, especially regarding its operational runs.

ZX7R · 13-06-2019 3:01pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Reached over 17c here in the west yesterday, which if anything, was a little above normal for the time of year. Now that the clouds are breaking I'd not be surprised to see something similar recorded this afternoon.

One thing I will say is how crap the ECMWF has been with regards temperature forecasts for my region recently. It has consistently forecast lower daytime temperatures than what has actually occurred. An increasingly over-rated model in my opinion, especially regarding its operational runs.

I wouldn't say it's over rated , definitely an over reliance on it , there's no other model to match it's performance.
With the low uppers we have it's not surprising it's carts are pegging daytime temperatures to be so low and as we all know its cold biased anyways.
When it picks up on a trend for warmth I always sit up and take notice.
Anyways though it's temperature charts are an average over 12 hour period or 24 hours

sryanbruen · 13-06-2019 3:02pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Is it possible we wont breach 20c in Dublin this June? Has that happened before?

Dublin Airport has failed to reach at least 20.0c in June 1972 (the coldest June on record in the last 50 or so years, monthly absolute max of only 18.4c), 1985 (monthly absolute max of 19.6c) and 1991 (monthly absolute max of 19.8c).

Casement Aerodrome has failed to reach at least 20.0c in June 1972 (monthly absolute max of only 18.4c), 1985 (monthly absolute max of 19.7c), 1991 (monthly absolute max of 19.2c) and 1997 (monthly absolute max of 19.8c). Fun fact is that every other June back to 1964 at the station (since its records began) has successfully reached at least one day with a max of 21.0c.

Data from Met Éireann.

Oneiric 3 · 13-06-2019 3:03pm

pauldry wrote: »

That bloomin Arctic has the whole Jet Stream f$$ked

Temperatures this June so far in the Arctic region are the highest since 2012...

Data - Climate Reanalyzer.

Oneiric 3 · 13-06-2019 3:12pm

ZX7R wrote: »

I wouldn't say it's over rated , definitely an over reliance on it , there's no other model to match it's performance.

The current odd pattern, for example, was picked up by the GFS before the ECM, and as far out as 280 hrs.

Regarding its ensembles, the ECM is second to none, but its operational runs are no better than the next most popular model - the GFS. A recent example was the rain we got in the west earlier this month. The ECM had it totally missing us right up to the last minute (and which was reflected in the Met's forecast at the time) while GFS showed that we'd squeeze something out of it... which we certainly did.

ZX7R · 13-06-2019 3:23pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

The current odd pattern, for example, was picked up by the GFS before the ECM, and as far out as 280 hrs.

Regarding its ensembles, the ECM is second to none, but its operational runs are no better than the next most popular model - the GFS. A recent example was the rain we got in the west earlier this month. The ECM had it totally missing us right up to the last minute (and which was reflected in the Met's forecast at the time) while GFS showed that we'd squeeze something out of it... which we certainly did.

Fair point, but if you're looking at precipitation charts I would not believe any of the model's

Kermit.de.frog · 13-06-2019 4:09pm

10c and grim.

The sooner we develop the ability to control the weather the better.

SleetAndSnow · 13-06-2019 4:16pm

(taken from r/ireland reddit)

Just had to put my hands into a bowl of hot water to help warm them up!

Gonzo · 13-06-2019 4:56pm

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Is there dry settled weather coming with that or just more of the same unsettled stuff? Thanks

no signs of any dry/settled weather for at least two weeks. However the end of the month doesn't look as wet or as cold as it has been, we could get the odd dry day before the end of the month, but I wouldn't call that dry and settled weather.

Once we get the odd dry day with temperatures hitting 17C or 18C, that could feel unusually warm after what seems like almost two weeks of mid November temperatures with many places struggling to even reach double digits.

There is a chance we could have a slight ridge of high pressure around the 21st to 24th of June, but it's over a week away and could easily miss us, so not going to get excited about that yet.

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