Is there ever a whole sunny day in Ireland?

armabelle · 18-06-2016 7:59pm

Matt Markinson wrote: »

Alcohol lowers the body temperature.
For whatever reason a culture turns to alcohol, it's not to keep warm.

Yeah I say so too

you know in russia I think it is colder but isnt it sunnier?

trixychic · 18-06-2016 10:51pm

armabelle wrote: »

well I have heard mixed things... some people say what you say then others say that it does rain a lot but you do get nice weather too. I am giving it a test run this year. If it really is like this then as much as we like Ireland, it just isn't possible to live here. Sunshine is everything to us and it keeps us healthy and smiling so we can't live without it.

You will often get ppl being quite optimistic. But that's who we are. Ie say if we are lucky we might get another so ot 2 of this during the summer. Then most of it will be like the recent days. Showery and overcast but still warm keeping in the high teens.

September you can be guaranteed some good weather. You can always be sure of good weather 2 times a year. When the junior and leaving cert start in June, and when the kids go back to school in September.

up for anything · 19-06-2016 8:32am

Hate this. The outlook on the daily weather thread has changed tack in just one day. Instead of optimistic warm weather for this coming weekend, it is now back to usual shite June weather.

regi3457 · 19-06-2016 10:41am

MJohnston wrote: »

Irish people are largely one of the more sociable and friendly societies on Earth. We generally also enjoy the pub. What's that got to do with the weather? Here's my chain of thought.

Cold and wet weather is common in most months but the summer months.
Strong need to keep a warm house.
Why waste your money heating just yourself?
Invite lots of neighbours around and share the burden of heating.
Build pubs so that people can congregate together (indoors of course) with communal heating.

Simplistic reasoning, but I suspect our social and friendly character has a lot to do with our weather. Scots, Nordics, Icelanders, Canadians, they're all much the same.

Of course, this doesn't really explain English people, but I suppose there always has to be an exception to every rule

Irish, swedes, Germans and most northern European cultures are "colder" more distant than Latin European, Latin America and even African cultures in general. I have lived in 6 countries and travelled to over 50 and can assure you that Irish people can be rather miserable. Smile too hard and the look you might get is: "well what the F@#$@ are you so happy about? They are good people with integrity and honesty but they can be rather miserable. If you are talking about solely in the pub then yeah they are the happiest people on earth

Matt Markinson · 19-06-2016 10:44am

regi3457 wrote: »

They are good people with integrity and honesty but they can be rather miserable.

Not according to the Irish motor insurance industry, we're all happy to be crooks according to them.

regi3457 · 19-06-2016 10:46am

Matt Markinson wrote: »

Not according to the Irish motor insurance industry, we're all happy to be crooks according to them.

that is because there is a conflict of interest

sryanbruen · 24-06-2016 6:50pm

2013 was a Summer of many whole sunny days, more especially in July and early June whilst there was an absence of them during August unfortunately. However, despite all the sun, the real talk of Summer 2013 was the heat. In this attachment, you can see how many days my station Grange recorded above its average daily temperature for each Summer day of 2013 and by how warm they were compared to normal. The blue line represents the average whilst the red line represents the actual values of Summer 2013. The mean temperature for anyone who doesn't know is worked out by maximum and minimum temperature added together divided by 2. I will try and work on a sunshine graph so you can see how many whole sunny days there were in that Summer.

sryanbruen · 25-06-2016 11:21am

Okay here's the sunshine graph of Summer 2013. Is this what you want Armabelle?

sryanbruen · 25-06-2016 11:22am

Summer 2010 was another brilliant Summer for sunshine at Grange here.

armabelle · 25-06-2016 11:22am

sryanbruen wrote: »

Okay here's the sunshine graph of Summer 2013. Is this what you want Armabelle?

Yes... give it to me!!

sryanbruen · 25-06-2016 11:25am

armabelle wrote: »

Yes... give it to me!!

We can all dream for a month like July 2013 again! Here's the Met Éireann weather bulletin on that month

http://www.met.ie/climate/MonthlyWeather/clim-2013-Jul.pdf

You can see by the headline that it was a great month "Extremely warm and sunny with variable rainfall". It was the sunniest month on record in places.

armabelle · 28-06-2016 9:17am

had a lovely 11 minutes of uninterrupted sunshine this morning...was fantastic

any predictions for another 11 minutes sometime in june/july?

joujoujou · 28-06-2016 12:40pm

11 minutes? :eek:

I am jealous. :mad:

armabelle · 28-06-2016 12:42pm

sryanbruen wrote: »

Summer 2010 was another brilliant Summer for sunshine at Grange here.

yes 2010 and 1951 too if I remember correctly

sryanbruen · 28-06-2016 12:44pm

armabelle wrote: »

yes 2010 and 1951 too if I remember correctly

1951 was very average, it was meh.

armabelle · 28-06-2016 1:21pm

joujoujou wrote: »

11 minutes? :eek:

I am jealous. :mad:

you should be, I am almost fully tanned now

joujoujou · 28-06-2016 1:42pm

I'm even more jealous.

sryanbruen · 29-07-2016 1:49pm

Another July without a whole sunny day, maybe 2017 will give it to us.

sryanbruen · 29-07-2016 2:01pm

OSI wrote: »

We've had plenty of whole sunny days this month....

No we haven't. A whole sunny day in July = 16 hours of sunshine, there has been no day this month with 16 hours of sunshine at any station. And when we define a whole sunny day in Ireland, we mean not a single cloud anywhere around the country and this is as rare as snowfall, perhaps even rarer.

armabelle · 29-07-2016 9:57pm

OSI wrote: »

We've had plenty of whole sunny days this month....

No we haven't, we had only one Sunday where it was sunny from 11 am through to evening, this was a day I really enjoyed. This was a special day. Can you call it a whole sunny day? No. But it was nice though!

armabelle · 29-07-2016 9:58pm

sryanbruen wrote: »

No we haven't. A whole sunny day in July = 16 hours of sunshine, there has been no day this month with 16 hours of sunshine at any station. And when we define a whole sunny day in Ireland, we mean not a single cloud anywhere around the country and this is as rare as snowfall, perhaps even rarer.

Yes I am discovering this but you know, it doesn't have to be completely sunny to be nice. Partly sunny is also nice just so long as it is not completely gloomy

sryanbruen · 29-07-2016 10:00pm

armabelle wrote: »

No we haven't, we had only one Sunday where it was sunny from 11 am through to evening, this was a day I really enjoyed. This was a special day. Can you call it a whole sunny day? No. But it was nice though!

The only day CLOSE to a whole sunny day in Ireland was the 19th with nearly every station recording at least 10 hours of sunshine, I myself recorded over 14 hours of sunshine - still doesn't qualify as a whole sunny day. And the Sunday that you're probably thinking of was the 17th.

sryanbruen · 17-08-2016 8:31pm

Do you think Monday (August 15th) qualified as a whole sunny day? I don't think so.

armabelle · 17-08-2016 8:58pm

sryanbruen wrote: »

Do you think Monday (August 15th) qualified as a whole sunny day? I don't think so.

I would say so sure. It was really lovely. I think it was the only one for a while. Last month there was that one Sunday which was nice but it didn't quite make the whole day.

It is a bit sad we can't have some more of those in Ireland. One every two weeks would be great for those looking to replenish their vitamin D and get the "Irish" out of their complexions but the reality - if this summer is anything to go by - is that once a month is more or less when you can actually see a sunny day and call it a sunny day

sryanbruen · 17-08-2016 9:03pm

armabelle wrote: »

I would say so sure. It was really lovely. I think it was the only one for a while. Last month there was that one Sunday which was nice but it didn't quite make the whole day.

It is a bit sad we can't have some more of those in Ireland. One every two weeks would be great for those looking to replenish their vitamin D and get the "Irish" out of their complexions but the reality - if this summer is anything to go by - is that once a month is more or less when you can actually see a sunny day and call it a sunny day

Well I can give you a bit of optimism which I mentioned in the Summer weather thread before. If this Summer and last Summer were dull, then no doubt that the next will be sunny.

Also, Summer 2017 will start on a Thursday and normally summers with this calendar are good - 2006, 2000, 1995 and 1989 all had this calendar and they were some of the best summers ever in Ireland (2000 was not though it was quite nice). Last bad Summer with this calendar was way back in 1978. So many could replenish a lot of Vitamin D in Summer 2017 if this pattern continues.

InTheTrees · 18-08-2016 12:39am

I don't know about "whole" sunny days.

I think for me the perfect weather is 24 degrees, little puffy clouds and a light breeze.

seamus · 18-08-2016 9:06am

Spent the last month digging up a garden, trying to get soil to bed down and grass to take root. It's been a battle. Bloody delighted to see that rain yesterday after weeks with practically nothing.

Wanderer78 · 18-08-2016 10:09am

seamus wrote:

Spent the last month digging up a garden, trying to get soil to bed down and grass to take root. It's been a battle. Bloody delighted to see that rain yesterday after weeks with practically nothing.

My grass is looking very parched, rain welcome here to

joujoujou · 18-08-2016 1:55pm

My grass grow on the swamp. Rain not welcome here to.

corcaigh1 · 23-03-2018 8:08pm

Jaysus I think we have had one day here in cork (Tues 20 March) of cloudless skies and sunshine since sometime last september 2017. I was buzzing for the day.

The last two days have been pissing here in cork. Depressing altogether, roll on the summer ffs. Think I read somewhere that it has been the darkest winter in years over northern europe.

sryanbruen · 23-03-2018 8:17pm

corcaigh1 wrote: »

Jaysus I think we have had one day here in cork (Tues 20 March) of cloudless skies and sunshine since sometime last september 2017.

The last two days have been pissing here in cork. Depressing altogether. Think i read somewhere that it has been the darkest winter in years over northern europe.

For parts of Europe yes. Ireland and the UK were statistically not in that. December was close to average, January was sunny whilst February was very sunny. In fact, in the UK's records back to 1929, it was the second sunniest Winter on record.

Cork Airport had unbroken sunshine on January 6th and 7th, February 1st, 6th, 13th and 20th. You can see for yourself in Met Éireann's historical data. http://www.met.ie/climate-request/

But seriously, what the hell was this post of mine back then (no doubt, wow I sound far too cocky)? Summer 2017 had the odd location above average sunshine wise such as Casement Aerodrome but most places were rather dull for the third consecutive Summer. Imagine a fourth consecutive dull one in 2018 - especially with the poor outlooks. :pac:

sryanbruen wrote: »

Well I can give you a bit of optimism which I mentioned in the Summer weather thread before. If this Summer and last Summer were dull, then no doubt that the next will be sunny.

Also, Summer 2017 will start on a Thursday and normally summers with this calendar are good - 2006, 2000, 1995 and 1989 all had this calendar and they were some of the best summers ever in Ireland (2000 was not though it was quite nice). Last bad Summer with this calendar was way back in 1978. So many could replenish a lot of Vitamin D in Summer 2017 if this pattern continues.

Artane2002 · 23-03-2018 10:14pm

I had a whole sunny day on Sunday, 25 February this year. Literally not a cloud in the sky all day. March has not been very good for sun at all, but as I said, I'm fine with it.

corcaigh1 · 24-03-2018 1:19pm

sryanbruen wrote: »

For parts of Europe yes. Ireland and the UK were statistically not in that. December was close to average, January was sunny whilst February was very sunny. In fact, in the UK's records back to 1929, it was the second sunniest Winter on record.

Cork Airport had unbroken sunshine on January 6th and 7th, February 1st, 6th, 13th and 20th. You can see for yourself in Met reann's historical data. http://www.met.ie/climate-request/

But seriously, what the hell was this post of mine back then (no doubt, wow I sound far too cocky)? Summer 2017 had the odd location above average sunshine wise such as Casement Aerodrome but most places were rather dull for the third consecutive Summer. Imagine a fourth consecutive dull one in 2018 - especially with the poor outlooks. :pac:

Excellent! was recently looking for something like this tool to check out the data!

Max Prophet · 04-07-2018 3:15pm

armabelle wrote: »

I know the weather in Ireland is bad but I didn't know it was going to be so bad and being new here (arrived in Jan) I have not seen one whole sunny day except for once about 6 weeks ago when it was cold as hell and it was only one day. Does it get better ever?

Yes, yes it does.

REBELSAFC · 04-07-2018 3:23pm

Max Prophet wrote: »

Yes, yes it does.

However, you have to wait about 2 and a half years:)

hatrickpatrick · 04-07-2018 3:34pm

Armabelle: Is there ever a whole sunny day in Ireland?
Irish weather: Hold my beer :cool:

Is there ever a whole sunny day in Ireland?

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