Summer 2019 - General Discussion

Mortelaro · 27-08-2019 4:02pm

In full site mode,dont use the insert url box at all
Just tap on the choose file above that(from your phone) and when you've picked one ,tap on upload to the right

See my screenshot (though I've zoomed in so you cant see the upload tab)

JCX BXC · 27-08-2019 5:07pm

12mm of Rain today and counting FFS.

So dark this evening too!

Just one sunny warm week would be nice.

Slashermcguirk · 27-08-2019 5:15pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Quick table showing No. of days with temps greater than temps referred to in table at all of the reporting Met Eireann stations.

I'll try to do a more in-depth report of this summer at the end of month.

Interesting stats. Phoenix park and Carlow very impressive with over 40 days this summer over 20 degrees. Where is mount Dillon, is that in the midlands?

pauldry · 27-08-2019 5:27pm

Mount dillons a desert.

Seriously though 6 warm days out west.

Will Ireland be the last place on earth to bake.
Id be reckoning so.

Slashermcguirk · 27-08-2019 5:32pm

pauldry wrote: »

Mount dillons a desert.

Seriously though 6 warm days out west.

Will Ireland be the last place on earth to bake.
Id be reckoning so.

No you are forgetting Scotland. Been there literally dozens of times and I never saw the sun. It literally never stops raining there

sryanbruen · 27-08-2019 5:38pm

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Interesting stats. Phoenix park and Carlow very impressive with over 40 days this summer over 20 degrees. Where is mount Dillon, is that in the midlands?

Roscommon.

Mortelaro · 27-08-2019 5:46pm

Quite wet now in Arklow
Gone dark with it

pad199207 · 27-08-2019 5:47pm

Rain has arrived in Kildare now. Breeze picking up

Storm 10 · 27-08-2019 5:50pm

More heavy rain approaching Galway now had a brief respite for about an hour

Donegal Storm · 27-08-2019 5:55pm

Yet another depressing write off of a day in Letterkenny.

Slashermcguirk · 27-08-2019 5:57pm

Dry here in Dublin 5 and quite pleasant but cloud seems to be building. No rain at all that I can think of over the past week or so. Garden could do with a shower or two

Donegal Storm · 27-08-2019 6:16pm

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Dry here in Dublin 5 and quite pleasant but cloud seems to be building. No rain at all that I can think of over the past week or so. Garden could do with a shower or two

It rained last Friday, Thursday, Wednesday and Tuesday in Dublin, and every single day in the week before that...

Looking at the stats on met.ie linked earlier, the east coast has around 180-190 wet days a year, the west around 200-230 so not that different really. I suspect the main difference is those of us in the west get to enjoy a lot more days like today where there's constant drizzle and mist all day

Rock Lesnar · 27-08-2019 6:21pm

Dry breezy and cloudy in meath today, very disappointing after the weekends weather

km79 · 27-08-2019 6:25pm

Rock Lesnar wrote: »

Dry breezy and cloudy in meath today, very disappointing after the weekends weather

We got no good weather and today has been a washout
Count your blessings

Slashermcguirk · 27-08-2019 6:29pm

Donegal Storm wrote: »

It rained last Friday, Thursday, Wednesday and Tuesday in Dublin, and every single day in the week before that...

Looking at the stats on met.ie linked earlier, the east coast has around 180-190 wet days a year, the west around 200-230 so not that different really. I suspect the main difference is those of us in the west get to enjoy a lot more days like today where there's constant drizzle and mist all day

I certainly don’t recall rain last Friday, i was in the park with the kids and we certainly didn’t see any. Perhaps earlier in the week it did but the last 4-5 days have been lovely

iamwhoiam · 27-08-2019 6:31pm

Donegal Storm wrote: »

It rained last Friday, Thursday, Wednesday and Tuesday in Dublin, and every single day in the week before that...

Looking at the stats on met.ie linked earlier, the east coast has around 180-190 wet days a year, the west around 200-230 so not that different really. I suspect the main difference is those of us in the west get to enjoy a lot more days like today where there's constant drizzle and mist all day

It can vary a lot in Dublin . I was caught in a biblical deluge in Lucan last week
Arrived home about 10 miles away to bone dry washing and not a drip of rain there . No rain here on Friday as far as remember either

Slashermcguirk · 27-08-2019 6:31pm

Donegal Storm wrote: »

It rained last Friday, Thursday, Wednesday and Tuesday in Dublin, and every single day in the week before that...

Looking at the stats on met.ie linked earlier, the east coast has around 180-190 wet days a year, the west around 200-230 so not that different really. I suspect the main difference is those of us in the west get to enjoy a lot more days like today where there's constant drizzle and mist all day

That is counting days where less than 1mm falls which is pointless. If you applied that against most cities they would show the same. A wet day is more than a few mms. Sure it could drizzle for 10 minutes and have sun for 10 hours and that would count as a wet day!

27-08-2019 6:45pm

Mortelaro wrote: »

In full site mode,dont use the insert url box at all
Just tap on the choose file above that(from your phone) and when you've picked one ,tap on upload to the right

See my screenshot (though I've zoomed in so you cant see the upload tab)

Thanks

Donegal Storm · 27-08-2019 7:02pm

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

That is counting days where less than 1mm falls which is pointless. If you applied that against most cities they would show the same. A wet day is more than a few mms. Sure it could drizzle for 10 minutes and have sun for 10 hours and that would count as a wet day!

In most countries I'd agree with that but not Ireland where a large proportion of our rain is light drizzle. Hours of that misty crap can amount to only 1 or 2mm yet still makes it unpleasant to do anything outdoors.

A better comparison would be hours with rain recorded, I suspect Dublin's rain is typically heavier and comes in shorter bursts than the west. Think I downloaded a load of hourly records a couple of years back, might try and run a query against it some time when I'm bored!

pauldry · 27-08-2019 7:15pm

After one of our wettest Marches on record in Sligo with 190mm earlier this year August could also be near record breaking. Rain gauge at 160mm now for the month. Could be near 200mm by month end if Fridays wave depression transpires.

More fully wet days in August than all of 2019 before it.
What is the wettest August on record in the Northwest?

1985? 1986? 1998? 2007? 2012?....none of these?

sryanbruen · 27-08-2019 7:28pm

pauldry wrote: »

After one of our wettest Marches on record in Sligo with 190mm earlier this year August could also be near record breaking. Rain gauge at 160mm now for the month. Could be near 200mm by month end if Fridays wave depression transpires.

More fully wet days in August than all of 2019 before it.
What is the wettest August on record in the Northwest?

1985? 1986? 1998? 2007? 2012?....none of these?

Station|Rainfall total (mm)|Year
Ballyshannon (Cathleen's Fall)|202.4|Aug 1985
Belmullet|235.3|Aug 1992
Claremorris|258.6|Aug 1985
Finner Camp|163.7|Aug 2017
Knock Airport|182.6|Aug 2009
Malin Head|180.8|Aug 1985
Markree Castle|230.9|Aug 1985
Newport|259.8|Aug 1985

Data from Met Éireann.

pauldry · 27-08-2019 8:11pm

Ok it looks like 1985 was the year

I was 11 and spent most of that August staring out the window. Low after low.

The other years might be caught.

200mm is attainable . Well see.

OldRio · 27-08-2019 8:22pm

Rain all day in Leitrim. Just awful.

Andrew00 · 27-08-2019 9:01pm

Shocking day in Galway

RedPeppers · 27-08-2019 9:04pm

It’s been raining since 3am here in NE Galway and still at it. 25mm in the rain gauge over 200mm this month already. Desperate altogether, I’ve lost count of the number of full wet days this month.

Xenji · 27-08-2019 9:27pm

The same in Castlebar, we have had around 4 dry hours today and close to 25mm of rain as well since midnight and still falling.

Gonzo · 27-08-2019 9:29pm

today was mostly cloudy but a few nice breaks in sunshine earlier and temperature reached 21C in the early afternoon. Still dry here, the rain from the west looks like its decaying as it pushes into Leinster.

Clonmel1000 · 27-08-2019 9:31pm

It’s been dull and dismal here all day. Thankfully no rain of note. Feel sorry for the people further west sounds horrendous. August has been predictably disappointing.

Mobhi1 · 27-08-2019 10:01pm

There was no rain today here in Glasnevin apart from about a minute of a few drops this evening. It got fairly cloudy this evening but earlier in the day there was a fair bit of sunshine. The high today was 22.9C.

Mortelaro · 27-08-2019 10:05pm

Mortelaro wrote: »

Quite wet now in Arklow
Gone dark with it

Lasted half an hour
Just 0.4mm

Hooter23 · 27-08-2019 10:07pm

You'd think August would have the best warmest weather with the heat building up all summer...no this is ireland sure...no wonder they used to call this island "Hibernia" (the land of winter):rolleyes:

Tigerandahalf · 27-08-2019 10:16pm

Forecast looks pretty bleak upto Friday for the north west. The south east could escape it all going by the forecast after the news.
Dark tonight at 8.30, sky down on top of you.

There was a slot on the news. It looked like Bray or somewhere, glorious weather there.

Hopefully we will get a couple of decent weeks before the end of September. It tends to be one of our better months.

SleetAndSnow · 27-08-2019 10:21pm

Average day in Cork City. Was raining this morning, stopped around 3pm and restarted around 6pm with heavy drizzle. Dark around half 8 here too depressing.

Beechwoodspark · 27-08-2019 10:21pm

Cracker of a day in Dublin

pauldry · 27-08-2019 10:24pm

Quite strange Summer in Northwest, in Sligo anyways. Ive gone to the beach 10 times so 9 of those days were warm and sunny. Even August has had 4 or 5 warm if not sunny all the time days. 2 at the start and 1 or 2 the past week. The rest of August rain. Also some very windy days this Summer and also some very cold days at the start though Sligo town escaped a lot of rain back then while Collooney got downpours.

Overall the past 10 years show

May and June will be the sunniest, July 19th to 25th the warmest and August WET

Donegal Storm · 27-08-2019 10:25pm

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

It’s been dull and dismal here all day. Thankfully no rain of note. Feel sorry for the people further west sounds horrendous. August has been predictably disappointing.

An understatement, I'd place this summer right up there with the washouts in the mid 2000's at this stage

Near torrential here for the past hour, hasn't stopped at all since yesterday evening

joeysoap · 27-08-2019 10:26pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Cracker of a day in Dublin

Yesterday was a cracker in Dundalk. Plenty of sun.

Today was a notch down, but still very pleasant. Very warm.

Thelonious Monk · 27-08-2019 11:24pm

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Cracker of a day in Dublin

Not it wasn't

pad199207 · 27-08-2019 11:39pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Not it wasn't

Up till just after lunchtime it was reasonably sunny. Clouded over then.

Danno · 28-08-2019 1:53am

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

That is counting days where less than 1mm falls which is pointless. If you applied that against most cities they would show the same. A wet day is more than a few mms. Sure it could drizzle for 10 minutes and have sun for 10 hours and that would count as a wet day!

0.2mm to 0.9mm is a rain day. 1.0mm and upwards is a wet day. That is what gets counted by Met Eireann

Graces7 · 28-08-2019 5:44am

cold today; think hibernation is in order.

Graces7 · 28-08-2019 7:49am

There is a grass frost

west mayo offshore

Mobhi1 · 28-08-2019 8:25am

Cloudy and misty and breezy this morning. It's 12.2C. The ground is damp but there was no rain recorded overnight.

Donegal Storm · 28-08-2019 8:50am

Still spitting rain in Letterkenny this morning, looking at satellite there's hopefully a clearance soon so might squeeze one more decent day out of the summer

iamwhoiam · 28-08-2019 9:49am

Woke to lovely sunshine in south Dublin, wasnt expecting it and so its a bonus .

compsys · 28-08-2019 10:05am

Donegal Storm wrote: »

It rained last Friday, Thursday, Wednesday and Tuesday in Dublin, and every single day in the week before that...

Looking at the stats on met.ie linked earlier, the east coast has around 180-190 wet days a year, the west around 200-230 so not that different really. I suspect the main difference is those of us in the west get to enjoy a lot more days like today where there's constant drizzle and mist all day

That’s up to 50 extra wet days a year. I wouldn’t call that insignificant.

Also it’s been dry since Thursday evening where I am by the coast and in the city whilst the rest of the country seems to have gotten some rain.

Naggdefy · 28-08-2019 10:20am

Graces7 wrote: »

There is a grass frost

west mayo offshore

Really Grace?

I didn't think temperatures were to drop below 10C last night

Slashermcguirk · 28-08-2019 10:44am

compsys wrote: »

That’s up to 50 extra wet days a year. I wouldn’t call that insignificant.

Also it’s been dry since Thursday evening where I am by the coast and in the city whilst the rest of the country seems to have gotten some rain.

I agree it’s at least last Thursday when we last had rain where I am in Dublin (it can all depend where you are in Dublin). I think 0.2mm constituting a rain day is utter nonsense, that could literally fall in less than 5 mins in a light shower and you could have 12 hours of sunshine outside of that. I know that’s what met Éireann count it as but that’s very misleading as a ‘rain day’.

I am amazed that no rain fell yesterday hearing the reports of torrential rain in so many locations. It just shows how localized weather can be. It’s the same when we have snow events where you could have next to no snow in one part of Dublin and 10-20km away there could be 2-3 inches of snow. Storm Emma was a classic example with places like Kildare impassable and some neighboring counties getting a fraction of that. I have even seen a 3-4 degree difference when driving from my house to west Dublin

Clonmel1000 · 28-08-2019 10:45am

Nice bright sunny morning here. Bit of a breeze there taking the edge of the temperature allright but pleasant nonetheless after yesterday’s gloom.

Xenji · 28-08-2019 11:04am

Cool and showery in Castlebar this morning with some sunny spells in between.

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