Summer 2019 - General Discussion

Graces7 · 18-07-2019 3:36pm

Lovely afternoon; dazzling sun, glorious cloud scapes and a warm fresh wind., Sitting out knitting,,, was bliss .. cats sprawled lazy-elegant on the grass .
west mayo offshore island

pad199207 · 18-07-2019 3:38pm

Next week Is possibly looking ‘Tropical’ with a good deal of rain about. Humidity could be an issue next week!

highdef · 18-07-2019 3:41pm

pad199207 wrote: »

Next week Is possibly looking ‘Tropical’ with a good deal of rain about. Humidity could be an issue next week!

I may bite the bullet and purchase an AC unit for the bedroom so.

giveitholly · 18-07-2019 3:55pm

Turned out a grand day,nice sunshine and breezy

Donegal Storm · 18-07-2019 6:43pm

Another poor day in Letterkenny with frequent showers and a strong breeze, radar looks fairly innocuous but we've had a heavy shower at least every hour all day.

Autumnal..

Slashermcguirk · 18-07-2019 6:57pm

Mortelaro wrote: »

London’s average rainfall is about 60% of Dublin’s annually actually which is considerably less
For every 10 wet days Dublin has London on average has four of those dry

That’s nonsense, Dublin averages around 700mm and London 600mm. That is a long way off the difference you are saying.

I spent a good bit of time in London and found the weather to be over rated. Better than Dublin yes but Paris for example is way hotter and sunnier than London despite not being much difference distance wide to Dublin from London. People go on like London has amazing summers, they average 3-4 days per year hitting 30 degrees but most days are high teens to mid 20s. The summers there are nothing special at all. Once you get to continental Europe it’s another league

Mortelaro · 18-07-2019 7:24pm

You are correct,its about 80%
Mea culpa
Paris is well inland on a continental land mass which is why its much hotter
London does borrow some of that heat by virtue of proximity but that nowhere near as good for heat as being 200 kms inland on a continent or a southerly from Nice

Slashermcguirk · 18-07-2019 7:31pm

Just to be clear I am in agreement that London has better summers than Dublin but I do think the summers there are over rated. Wimbledon is usually a good example, this year like in Ireland they got lucky the last week of June and first week of July but they had to put a roof over the two main courts because of the constant rain delays year after year, it was driving the players mad!

London can get spells of lovely warm weather but temps around 30 degrees are very much the exception, usually closer to low 20s on average. I guess we consider London summers good but that’s just in comparison to the likes of Ireland. If you asked mainland Europeans they would say weather in London is pants

Mortelaro · 18-07-2019 7:45pm

I've had a look at the max temp at heathrow for the first 17 days of july this year
All days had maxes above 20c
16 out of those 17 it was above 22c
8 were above 24
Central London I haven't looked at but its probably a tad warmer

At 22c ,Dublin would be considered as having a warm day
I don't agree that Dublin's weather comes anywhere close to that

I'll also profer that quite a bit of Londons and SE England's rain in Summer can come from evening or overnight thunderstorms after a fine warm day either locally made or French imports
That wouldn't take from the perception its weather is much more summery than Dublins

sryanbruen · 18-07-2019 8:18pm

Ok day in Dublin with some sunny spells and a lovely evening. Had a small shower during the afternoon.

Slashermcguirk · 18-07-2019 8:50pm

Yes fair point but look at all of May to the 3rd week of June and most days were mid to high teens and raining. As I said London can get stretches of nice warm weather but it could then have 2-3 weeks of muck

quote="Mortelaro;110726535"]I've had a look at the max temp at heathrow for the first 17 days of july this year
All days had maxes above 20c
16 out of those 17 it was above 22c
8 were above 24
Central London I haven't looked at but its probably a tad warmer

At 22c ,Dublin would be considered as having a warm day
I don't agree that Dublin's weather comes anywhere close to that

I'll also profer that quite a bit of Londons and SE England's rain in Summer can come from evening or overnight thunderstorms after a fine warm day either locally made or French imports
That wouldn't take from the perception its weather is much more summery than Dublins[/quote]

Mobhi1 · 18-07-2019 8:57pm

I think Dublin's average July max is 19C and London's is 23C so anything over 19 in Dublin is warm.

gozunda · 18-07-2019 8:58pm

Felt very warm again today with a high of 22.4c and not a drop of rain. Humidity started off high and decreased over the day until about 3.00pm

nacho libre · 18-07-2019 9:19pm

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Yes fair point but look at all of May to the 3rd week of June and most days were mid to high teens and raining. As I said London can get stretches of nice warm weather but it could then have 2-3 weeks of muck

Yes, June was quiet wet and chilly, but weather like that does not happen very often.
You don't get 30 plus heat in London too much, but the temperature rarely goes below 20 degrees during the Summer and in a 10 day period, you might have 2 days of rain, and that will usually come from a continental source.

Clonmel1000 · 18-07-2019 10:14pm

Thought tonight was noticeably dark date I say it the evenings are starting to draw in.

Fast Twitch · 18-07-2019 10:30pm

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Thought tonight was noticeably dark date I say it the evenings are starting to draw in.

We've lost 16 min in the evening from mid summer. Say Tullamore sunset 22:00 back to 21:44.

However it's the morning where we've lost 30 min.

Sunrise Tullamore 4.57 mid summer now 5.27.

MidMan25 · 18-07-2019 10:31pm

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Thought tonight was noticeably dark date I say it the evenings are starting to draw in.

It's getting darker a whole 14 mins earlier than the latest sunset. It's just the dull weather that made it seem darker.

Fast Twitch · 18-07-2019 10:34pm

MidMan25 wrote: »

It's getting darker a whole 14 mins earlier than the latest sunset. It's just the dull weather that made it seem darker.

The evenings really pull back by around 2min from 22nd July on. Up to 21st you only lose 20min in the evening. By 15 August you've lost an hour in the eve.

The morning is the one where the later sunrise is more noticeable mid July, but you come from such an early start mid summer most don't notice.

Graces7 · 19-07-2019 9:16am

Fast Twitch wrote: »

The evenings really pull back by around 2min from 22nd July on. Up to 21st you only lose 20min in the evening. By 15 August you've lost an hour in the eve.

The morning is the one where the later sunrise is more noticeable mid July, but you come from such an early start mid summer most don't notice.

someone i knew up in the North Isles mentioned shorter days and as I told her, "All downhill until Christmas now."

sryanbruen · 19-07-2019 9:31am

Nice supernumerary over Bray Head on Wednesday night.

https://twitter.com/ericthebirdman/status/1151937481912270848?s=21

compsys · 19-07-2019 10:04am

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Thought tonight was noticeably dark date I say it the evenings are starting to draw in.

Jesus wept.

We've lost a grand total of 15 mins in the evening for God's sake.

Come back to me when we've lost an hour in the evening.

Cork Boy 53 · 19-07-2019 10:29am

compsys wrote: »

Jesus wept.

We've lost a grand total of 15 mins in the evening for God's sake.

Come back to me when we've lost an hour in the evening.

By mid August we will have lost that and more.

Mortelaro · 19-07-2019 11:00am

Quite wet in Arklow now again

squarecircles · 19-07-2019 11:48am

gfs 06z has briefly spewed the +20 degree isothern over ireland by the end of next week,
UK being scortched alive, phenomenal night time minima over ther.

Could this be the hottest period of the summer coming for them,could the magic 40 be reached,
with the land so dry
potentially record breaking.
hopefully we can live of some of their scraps and get into the 20s and get a day or two of warm weather
but with that heat there would be serious amouts of pigmuck steaming up off the atlantic.

Graces7 · 19-07-2019 11:54am

Just opened the door to let a cat in and met a wall of midges..Literally the air filled with them Feet and legs which are bare are on fire... had to spray inside to clear the ones that came in and the cats went ballistic.

need wind NOW. Besieged by stinging midges... where is the piriton!

west mayo offshore midge sanctuary.

squarecircles · 19-07-2019 12:02pm

can you spot the magic 30:)

Kermit.de.frog · 19-07-2019 12:54pm

Need to see some changes from the ECM/UKMO this evening if anything like that is to be a realistic prospect. At the moment they are too progressive bring in the Atlantic systems and shifting the plume in to Europe east.

squarecircles · 19-07-2019 9:43pm

revolting evening here in west Mayo for mid july,cold dark and damp.

think it reached a pathetic 14 degrees today.

not sure where the warmth humidity and thunderstorms went today,never materialised,pig scutter of the highest order.

plenty of more Atlantic dross in the pipeline next week,

glad to be heading off for August.

Xenji · 19-07-2019 10:05pm

squarecircles wrote: »

revolting evening here in west Mayo for mid july,cold dark and damp.

think it reached a pathetic 14 degrees today.

not sure where the warmth humidity and thunderstorms went today,never materialised,pig scutter of the highest order.

plenty of more Atlantic dross in the pipeline next week,

glad to be heading off for August.

Encroached as far as Claremorris anyway, they have had lightning and nearly 50 mm of rain in the last two hours or so.

Oscar Bravo · 19-07-2019 10:07pm

Xenji wrote: »

Encroached as far as Claremorris anyway, they have had lightning and nearly 50 mm of rain in the last two hours or so.

Good video posted on the Connaught telegraph facebook page of it

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