worst irish summer

s.m · 29-06-2014 3:06pm #1

just thinking back to that terrible summer of 2012 which was an absolute washout as we all remember. Can anyone else think of any poor summers ? Two that also come to mind are the summers of 1985 and 1986

AnonoBoy · 29-06-2014 3:08pm

Aught dickety dick was pretty poor as far as I remember.

Panrich · 29-06-2014 3:09pm

s.m wrote: »

just thinking back to that terrible summer of 2012 which was an absolute washout as we all remember. Can anyone else think of any poor summers ? Two that also come to mind are the summers of 1985 and 1986

2007 was the biggest washout that I can ever remember.

JM Skipton · 29-06-2014 3:51pm

85 was horrendous,wet dull no sun whatsoever 07 was not far behind it seemed to continually rain from may to August before getting a decent September

Call me Al · 29-06-2014 5:03pm

2002 was a washout. We had a German friend with us that summer and she and I recorded that it rained every single day at our house in Clonee.

Billcarson · 29-06-2014 5:08pm

Summer 98 wasnt a great summer,cool and fairly wet overall from what i can remember.

Elmer Blooker · 29-06-2014 7:13pm

Apparently 1946 was an extremely bad summer, there was little or no coal to had following WW2 and the turf was of very poor quality during the following famous winter causing great hardship.

Gonzo · 29-06-2014 8:51pm

Summers of 2007 to 2012 were possibly the longest run of bad summers year after year that I can remember in a long time. Summer of 2013 broke that trend and so far Summer 2014 has been fairly decent, still have all of July & August to play for and even start of September.

Birdnuts · 29-06-2014 8:55pm

The majority of the summers from 07-12 were poor or very poor. I do remember 98 and 02 being bad too. The 80's saw a couple of poor summers too with a bad run from 85 to 88

Aiel · 29-06-2014 11:04pm

1996 for me was a brutal summer, especially after the previous Summer in 95 which was so great.I remember trying to get dry days to do the garden and week after week went by of very wet weather,that grey misty muck.

Stinicker · 30-06-2014 1:55am

2007-2012 were six rotten years without as much as a weeks solid dry weather in the summer (Sept 2009 being the exception) and 2002 was terrible also, I remember getting drenched wet in the terraces in Killarney watching Kerry and Cork play a miserable draw and Ireland getting knocked out of the World Cup by Spain on Penalties then same day. I was sick for about three months after with pleurisy of the lungs.

Tarzana · 30-06-2014 3:34am

2007.

Actually 2007-2012 were all terrible. I really thought we'd never have a good summer again.

Irelandcool · 30-06-2014 10:41am

This year has been good but with just with an increase of thunderstorms in my area (which I like cause you know I want to go storm chasing once I get a proper car and driving license).

I can't remember which year it was but during 2007 to 2009 we were able to see a funnel or possible tornado in our area so that year wasn't that year.
But all it takes this year is a spanish plume + that el nino and this years summer could see a bit of HP supercells forming.

Irelandcool · 30-06-2014 10:44am

also I think it was 1999 or 2001 or 2002 in which a week or two our place was hit by a thunderstorm every day some were supercell in nature, on particularly storm started from 3/2 O clock and lasted till 11pm that night with big flashes of lightning.
2012 though was the worst especially since how my uncles farm was hit by bad flash flooding even though it was sloping.

Sam Kade · 30-06-2014 10:46am

s.m wrote: »

just thinking back to that terrible summer of 2012 which was an absolute washout as we all remember. Can anyone else think of any poor summers ? Two that also come to mind are the summers of 1985 and 1986

2012 was the worst 1985 was close but I don't remember 86 being bad.

Alonso77 · 30-06-2014 2:56pm

2011 was actually a chilly summer so to speak as I recall. dreary

Irelandcool · 30-06-2014 2:58pm

Alonso77 wrote: »

2011 was actually a chilly summer so to speak as I recall. dreary

actually most of that year was chilly but dry at the same time except for the flooding at november

pauldry · 30-06-2014 3:27pm

1. 1985
2. 2007
3. 1998/1986 tied

In my lifetime anyways

Flippyfloppy · 30-06-2014 3:30pm

2012 wasn't that bad. I was pregnant, found the heat so horrible and got burnt to a crisp during May bank holiday. Summer of 2001 sucked.

Birdnuts · 30-06-2014 4:53pm

Flippyfloppy wrote: »

2012 wasn't that bad. I was pregnant, found the heat so horrible and got burnt to a crisp during May bank holiday. Summer of 2001 sucked.

Summer 2012 consisted of one week at the end of May.

Birdnuts · 30-06-2014 4:54pm

Alonso77 wrote: »

2011 was actually a chilly summer so to speak as I recall. dreary

Yep - one fine week around Easter, the rest of the year was grim to say the least:(

Flippyfloppy · 30-06-2014 4:57pm

Birdnuts wrote: »

Summer 2012 consisted of one week at the end of May.

Every year summer occurs during the summer months, in the season called....wait for it.... summer!!

Birdnuts · 30-06-2014 6:10pm

Flippyfloppy wrote: »

Every year summer occurs during the summer months, in the season called....wait for it.... summer!!

I'm aware of that - I was referring more to "summer type" weather over the course of a year

acequion · 30-06-2014 8:09pm

I remember summer 1985 very clearly as my father was dying of cancer and the elements that year were in sympathy with the mood in our family.A dreadful summer!

2007 also stands out as I was having my house built that summer and it was a deluge. I moved in later that year and the following year bought garden furniture,barbecue etc and in fact did not get to use any of that until July last year.

So, I'd go with what a lot of the others have said. 1985 and to varying degrees 2007-2012. I honestly had started to believe that climate change meant that proper summers,as in dry,warm,settled weather,were a thing of the past.

And then along came that glorious heatwave of July 2013!:D To be continued in 2014........:D

sunbeam · 30-06-2014 8:59pm

1985: the summer of Live Aid, moving statues and endless rain.

IIRC the weather was so bad that when it picked up at the start of September the government gave primary school kids an extra week off school. I had just started secondary.

I remember May and June 2010 were quite good as my mother was dying then. The day after she died the torrential rain arrived.

Its hard to believe it's 19 years since the glorious summer of 95. 19 years previous to that was 76 and I have only vague recollections of my mother and granny giving out about how hot it was.

jack o shea · 30-06-2014 9:35pm

2012 was the worst summer ever in this country bar none, just ask any farmer, animals housed all summer because of the non stop rain.

Hammer Archer · 30-06-2014 10:39pm

1985 also consisted of one of the most biblical of thunderstorms to hit Ireland that I am insanely jealous I wasn't alive to witness.

I seem to remember a pretty big flood hitting the east coast in August 2008 as well. Remember the walkways surrounding Croke Park being flooded and the scout Jamboree in Punchestown having to finish early. Can't remember what the rest of Summer 2008 was like though.

pauldry · 01-07-2014 12:26am

sunbeam wrote: »

Its hard to believe it's 19 years since the glorious summer of 95. 19 years previous to that was 76 and I have only vague recollections of my mother and granny giving out about how hot it was.

And 1995+19=2014 :cool::cool::cool:

Sam Kade · 01-07-2014 8:26am

Flippyfloppy wrote: »

2012 wasn't that bad. I was pregnant, found the heat so horrible and got burnt to a crisp during May bank holiday. Summer of 2001 sucked.

It was the worst summer I remember and I'm around a long time. Rain almost every day and when you work depends on the weather you don't forget too easily.

Tarzana · 01-07-2014 12:21pm

Flippyfloppy wrote: »

Every year summer occurs during the summer months, in the season called....wait for it.... summer!!

And in 2012, we had one week's worth of summer weather. Yes, in a summer month, but on only one week out of 12. The rest of the summer was absolutely awful. I regularly got soaked through walking to and from work that summer, much more than in the following winter.

s.m · 01-07-2014 12:29pm

I do also recall the summers of 1988 and 1991 being fairly poor for the most part and the summer of 1986 I remember there being a lot of thunderstorms than usual

gammygils · 01-07-2014 12:37pm

1985 definitely. Brought home the turf eventually in September.And it was still wet.
After spending all Summer in the bog.
Tractors sinking, etc. Had to wheelbarrow it all a mile to the road.
Horrible!

Tarzana · 01-07-2014 1:17pm

Is it just me who thinks a summer of frequent thunderstorms would be a pretty great summer?

Plus short bursts of really heavy thunderstorm rain can be invigorating and much preferable to the drizzly crap we usually get. And thunderstorms often punctuate spells of fine weather. I remember we had a few thunderstorms in summer 1995 that were hot weather related.

Elmer Blooker · 01-07-2014 2:25pm

gammygils wrote: »

1985 definitely. Brought home the turf eventually in September.And it was still wet.
After spending all Summer in the bog.
Tractors sinking, etc. Had to wheelbarrow it all a mile to the road.
Horrible!

Interesting. I mentioned the terrible summer of 1946 the other day and 1985 was similar, both a lot worse than anything we had in the period 2007-12.
The two coldest Februarys of the 20th century were 1947 and '86.
Coincidence?

RobertKK · 01-07-2014 6:59pm

1985 was woeful, 1986 bad too, 2012 had the worst June ever in recorded history.

As Elmer said, 1946 was a very bad summer which made the winter of 1947 even worst as the feed for the animals was poor, and food for the humans was rationed after the war.

Stroke Politics · 03-07-2014 9:55pm

1985. Spent a week in a tent down the road from my house at the scout Jamboree in Portumna - which we re-named Port-Mud-Na '85. Thank god it was in my town, we were able to go home and get a shower.

2007 - 2012 were the years when my garden flooded each summer, and we had to put the central heating on in June and August....

Oops69 · 12-07-2014 1:25pm

1985 , dull, rain and of course where does My father bring us on holiday just after finishing my inter cert , a cottage in north mayo , we hardly left the house for 2 weeks , no tv either , live aid on the radio from wembley and Philadelphia so didn't even get to see that .

worst irish summer

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