Summer 2020 - General Discussion

Today is the warmest day of this spell for many, but we can already see the temperature lowering fairly quickly across the west and north. At this stage we have passed the peak and temperatures will begin to lower everywhere from now on. A few more hours of warmth across the east and south. Looks to be a fairly chilly day in Donegal and parts of Mayo, these are a sign of things to come for the next week to 10 days.

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

It’s gone hazy here in the last 30 minutes. Proper hot in the sun but you can almost feel a change unfortunately imminent.

yep same here, you can tell just by looking at the sky that the change is coming and we are losing the grip on the high pressure.

25C now at Dunshaughlin, our warmest day in 2 years!

Not as warm today around Tralee but still really nice getting up to 21.4C.

Cooling down considerably now to 16.1C. Will be glad of a good night sleep tonight, house was over 25C last night and not a puff of air, had to put a fan on after 04.00.

still 22C here in Meath, hanging onto the last hour of warmth by our fingertips, will be much cooler within the next hour or two. After 3 months of relatively mild and sometimes warm conditions, it's a bit sad to see it go! Hopefully we can resume some lovely summer weather towards the final week of June.

esposito wrote: »

Yeah lovely balmy evening in Dublin but quite cloudy now. Hopefully we will get another warm/hot spell during the summer because as we know, this kind of weather is not guaranteed in Ireland.

I would like the highest temperature in Ireland record broken. It may not happen this year but it’s probably only a matter of time before it is.

I've been wishing this for year's and i'd like it to happen soon. As we saw in 2018 we had perfect conditions but it is very difficult for most parts of the country to reach 30C or more. Certainly southern and eastern areas would be very difficult to reach or break the record as the majority of hot spells have easterly breezes of some sort.

I think what we would need to break the record would be a hot spell similar to June 2018 but have it in the middle of August, where we would have a better chance of getting a degree or two higher when sea temperatures are approaching their warmest and the continent to be very hot indeed. If we're going to break the all time temperature record I would like to see 34.0C being reached so we can be sure our ancient record is well and truly broken in modern times.

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

final week of june??? is june a write off then?
there's a high of 9c for Dublin on Saturday, unbelievable, you get warmer Christmas days often!
Been great weather but I wish it could just rain for a day or two and then remain pleasant.

No June is not a write off but it is beginning to look fairly unsettled at times and anything settled is well out in the extended range of FI. Next week is still a bit up in the air, we will be locked into this cold northerly between tomorrow and Monday but after that we may start drawing winds in from the east again which would lift the temperatures back up but we could have instability to deal with and there is the potential for thundery showers mid month if we can drag decent warmth from the continent combined with showers. The final 10 days of June are so far ahead anything can happen between now and then.

Today's max temperatures. Many places saw their warmest day of the year so far, possibly even warmer than any day last year too. Most parts of Leinster, Munster and the midlands reached at least 24C today with many areas seeing 25C.



the cooler air has already arrived across most of the north-western half of the country. Still some warm stretching from Cork to Dundalk with low 20's, parts of Dublin still 23C but this really is the last of it for now.

Increasingly dull evening , down to 14.3C now here near Tralee