Summer 2020 - General Discussion

pad199207 · 26-07-2020 11:35am

Status Yellow - Rainfall warning for Carlow, Kilkenny, Laois, Wexford, Wicklow, Cork, Tipperary and Waterford

Met Éireann Weather Warning

Heavy rain tonight leading to accumulations of 20 to 30mm in places, with a risk of spot flooding.

Valid: 20:00 Sunday 26/07/2020 to 10:00 Monday 27/07/2020

Issued: 11:00 Sunday 26/07/2020

SleetAndSnow · 26-07-2020 11:11pm

I feel like its gone further north the system?

Storm 10 · 26-07-2020 11:12pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'm beginning to think that Met Éireann's warning system is arbitrary in nature...we've had torrential rain in Clare for the past two hours with plenty more streaming behind it.

Same in Galway and looking at the radar the places in the warnings did not get the heaviest rain

Oscar Bravo · 26-07-2020 11:28pm

Storm 10 wrote: »

Same in Galway and looking at the radar the places in the warnings did not get the heaviest rain

the warning is only valid since 8pm. how can you say before the system has even moved in that the warning was wrong. read the warnings before you post your waffle.

amadangomor · 26-07-2020 11:51pm

jaffa20 wrote: »

Basically a good day now means no rain. So next week doesn't look too bad apart from Monday. I still wear shorts and tshirt when it's like that. Today was pretty miserable though i did get a nice walk earlier in the day before the torrential rain appeared. Of course i would love some more sun but i'm learning to live with the little positives i can find right now.

Ah Jaysus, you're not the lad at my work that wears a shirt, v neck jumper and shorts for 11 months of the year?

Storm 10 · 27-07-2020 12:20am

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

the warning is only valid since 8pm. how can you say before the system has even moved in that the warning was wrong. read the warnings before you post your waffle.

Now now calm down it's midnight now it's been raining in Galway since around 8pm did not expect it as we were never mentioned , just an observation

igCorcaigh · 27-07-2020 3:12am

Incredibly heavy rain here for the past hour in Cork City centre.

Gaoth Laidir · 27-07-2020 7:46am

Very hot in Spain yesterday, with much of Andalucía above 40 degrees. The hottest was 44.7 °C at Écija, Sevilla.

They should see similar again today before a cooling tomorrow.

https://meteologix.com/ie/observations/spain/maximum-temperature/20200726-1800z.html

km79 · 27-07-2020 9:21am

Woken by really really heavy rain and gusty winds at 7am
Monday 27th July 2020
South Mayo

NIMAN · 27-07-2020 9:42am

Woke a few times during the night, and seemed to be constantly drizzling in north Donegal.

Glad I had a dry day yesterday and got the gardens cut.

Clonmel1000 · 27-07-2020 10:02am

Wet overcast breezy morning here this morning. Think it’s to “pick up” during the day but we’re at such a low base at this stage anything is an improvement. It’s been a terrible summer here in my opinion. We’ve had about 3/4 good days since the June 1st a few okish ones and the rest have been dull overcast sometimes wet often cool.

Donegal Storm · 27-07-2020 10:07am

NIMAN wrote: »

Woke a few times during the night, and seemed to be constantly drizzling in north Donegal.

Glad I had a dry day yesterday and got the gardens cut.

Was definitely a lot more than drizzle overnight, some torrential bursts woke me up a couple of times.

12C, dark, breezy and still raining here this morning, what more could you want

Rock Lesnar · 27-07-2020 10:41am

15mm of rain from around 11pm til i left the house at 6.30am here in meath last night, it was fairly heavy rain from 5.30

SleetAndSnow · 27-07-2020 11:27am

Rain looked to be very heavy overnight in Cork City, with 2am recording 2.2mm, 3am recording 7.2mm, 4am recording 4.3mm and 5am recording 3.5mm.

leahyl · 27-07-2020 11:35am

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Rain looked to be very heavy overnight in Cork City, with 2am recording 2.2mm, 3am recording 7.2mm, 4am recording 4.3mm and 5am recording 3.5mm.

As usual, I slept through it all :rolleyes:

Supercell · 27-07-2020 11:42am

Quite a split in temperatures across the country, looks like we are just about hanging on to the warmer air in the east and south east.
It's mid winter in Donegal

kingshankly · 27-07-2020 11:42am

Has Ireland suddenly moved to the Southern Hemisphere and July is now winter
In Belfast here 13 degrees with rain

SleetAndSnow · 27-07-2020 11:44am

14 Degrees and strong enough gusts this morning in Cork, chilly gusts too. Not ideal, it is meant to brighten up and warm up as the day progresses though

Slashermcguirk · 27-07-2020 12:02pm

Cloudy morning in Dublin but bit of sun breaking through, 22 forecast on Thursday and 24 degrees on Friday. Will be taking advantage of those

Storm 10 · 27-07-2020 1:17pm

Quite a chill in the air in Galway

Gonzo · 27-07-2020 1:37pm

kingshankly wrote: »

Has Ireland suddenly moved to the Southern Hemisphere and July is now winter
In Belfast here 13 degrees with rain

Overall we've had a very cool July, temperatures are well below the monthly average in most places between 1 and 2C below the monthly average. It's also been a very wet month away from the south with close to or over 100mm in many eastern, northern and north-western stations. In many areas this has been the poorest July since 2012.

pauldry · 27-07-2020 1:40pm

yes it will go down as the poorest July since 2012

We had a run of very poor Summers from 2007 to 2012 but in the years since it hasnt been too bad until this year.

This July any sun at all is like a glorious day even when its just 16c

Other Julys you would be looking for over 20c but this year that has been rare until the end of this week perhaps

km79 · 27-07-2020 3:43pm

VERY windy in south mayo
Great drying though

Slashermcguirk · 27-07-2020 4:10pm

Once again look at the contrast in Europe today, this has been the story of summer 2020

Edinburgh 15 degrees
Dublin 18 degrees
London 19 degrees
Paris 32 degrees
Madrid 38 degrees

pad199207 · 27-07-2020 4:12pm

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Once again look at the contrast in Europe today, this has been the story of summer 2020

Edinburgh 15 degrees
Dublin 18 degrees
London 19 degrees
Paris 32 degrees
Madrid 38 degrees

Pretty much normal temps for summer for NW Europe. I honestly don’t know why your comparing Dublin to Madrid.

Slashermcguirk · 27-07-2020 4:21pm

pad199207 wrote: »

Pretty much normal temps for summer for NW Europe. I honestly don’t know why your comparing Dublin to Madrid.

I am comparing Northern Europe to Southern Europe in terms of the extremes. The contrast is much greater this summer than normal. I hardly think Dublin is expected to be like Madrid. Hence why I listed several cities

Slashermcguirk · 27-07-2020 4:22pm

Also while Paris would always be much warmer than london, it has regularly been between 10-12 degrees warmer which is a massive contrast given the distance between the two cities geographically

Gonzo · 27-07-2020 4:50pm

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Also while Paris would always be much warmer than london, it has regularly been between 10-12 degrees warmer which is a massive contrast given the distance between the two cities geographically

This has been a particularly poor summer for London and the south-east of England in general, normally they are not that far from Paris in terms of temperatures, usually 21 to 25C throughout the summer with high twenties alot more regular than we get in Ireland. This summer has been different with London seeing a summer more like Dublin and temperatures in the high teens most of the time.

Meanwhile here in Ireland it has also been a poor summer and we have struggled to get the temperatures above 19C for almost the entire summer with mid teens regularly.

Zapperzy · 27-07-2020 5:29pm

Some seriously strong gusts in East Galway in the last hour. Was this forecast or did I miss it?

It was a broken sunshine, moderately windy day with showers otherwise

JCX BXC · 27-07-2020 6:39pm

A few isolated showers in the Northwest today according to Met Éireann. It's been shower after shower here in West Clare, and they've been fairly heavy.

cavemeister · 27-07-2020 7:37pm

Got caught out in a torrential downpour while out walking in Kildare about an hour ago. When I say I was soaked, the money in my wallet was wet.

Its incredible how quickly it can go from blue sky to biblical downpours in the space of a few minutes.

I don't know whats depressing me more, this weather or the pandemic.

Anyone in the know seen any long term forecasts with good news on the way?

appledrop · 27-07-2020 7:45pm

Well first day of our 'staycation' + better than expected.

Now what I mean by that is we left the house in raincoats early this morning not expecting much but thankfully it cleared up.

No it definitely wasn't a 'summers' day but at least it was dry+ we were able to potter around happily for the day once we had our light jackets on.

My expectations at this stage are not high!

appledrop · 27-07-2020 7:53pm

We are now at about 86mm for DA for July if you include todays rain do far.

Anyone know top 5 highest rainfall totals for DA for July?

Also the lowest maximum temperature for July at DA?

Thanks.

US2 · 27-07-2020 7:57pm

cavemeister wrote: »

Got caught out in a torrential downpour while out walking in Kildare about an hour ago. When I say I was soaked, the money in my wallet was wet.

Its incredible how quickly it can go from blue sky to biblical downpours in the space of a few minutes.

I don't know whats depressing me more, this weather or the pandemic.

Anyone in the know seen any long term forecasts with good news on the way?

The long term forecasts said July was going to be nice so useless information really.

appledrop · 27-07-2020 8:20pm

Raining here again for last hour..... we are on 12mm so far for today.

Larbre34 · 27-07-2020 8:21pm

Random isolated squall/shower bringing heavy rain from North Kildare into West Dublin just now.

appledrop · 27-07-2020 8:30pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

Random isolated squall/shower bringing heavy rain from North Kildare into West Dublin just now.

We are getting this now its lashing out of the heavens as my granny used to say!

zisdead · 27-07-2020 8:36pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

Random isolated squall/shower bringing heavy rain from North Kildare into West Dublin just now.

Confirmed sudden Squall hit Clondalkin about 8.33 pm

lolie · 27-07-2020 9:26pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

Random isolated squall/shower bringing heavy rain from North Kildare into West Dublin just now.

Same shower line that passed through here about 6.30 this evening, left a lovely bright rainbow as it passed.
No heat going to loss now, down to 12c outside.

appledrop · 27-07-2020 9:42pm

Just watching met eireamn forecast there.

I think Jean said about 6 times that it will be cool tomorrow. Better keep the jacket again so.

Wed looks a washout but nice Thur + Fri fingers crossed!

Oscar Bravo · 27-07-2020 10:01pm

The bank holiday weekend ahead looks fairly ok. it wont be hot and sunny,however it wont be a wash out. Bright and mostly dry with temperatures about 16 to 20 degrees.

esposito · 27-07-2020 10:32pm

Very disappointing temperatures this summer. Thursday and Friday will be into the low twenties widely but as usual it won’t last long as the cooler air takes over again for the bank holiday weekend.

It would not surprise me if we get our warmest temperatures in late August & early September. A hot plume for a few days in September no doubt.

John O.Groats · 27-07-2020 11:06pm

esposito wrote: »

Very disappointing temperatures this summer. Thursday and Friday will be into the low twenties widely but as usual it won’t last long as the cooler air takes over again for the bank holiday weekend.

It would not surprise me if we get our warmest temperatures in late August & early September. A hot plume for a few days in September no doubt.

Based on the last number of years I wouldn`t be holding out much hope for an extended spell of warm dry weather in August and the charts don`t show any sign of it at present either. Maybe September might bring something better for a while anyway before Autumn really sets in.

Gonzo · 27-07-2020 11:13pm

two very cool days coming up with temperatures several degrees below normal.

Tomorrow 13 to 16C, similar values that we would get in April.

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Wednesday is cooler still. 10 to 13C widely across the country, for the height of summer these are disgraceful temperatures that wouldn't look out of place in mid December. Wednesday also looks quite wet along with this chilly temperatues.

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esposito · 27-07-2020 11:16pm

John O.Groats wrote: »

Based on the last number of years I wouldn`t be holding out much hope for an extended spell of warm dry weather in August and the charts don`t show any sign of it at present either. Maybe September might bring something better for a while anyway before Autumn really sets in.

Oh I know all about recent August’s in Ireland! I’m just thinking the last couple of days of August it might warm up but who knows.

Gonzo · 27-07-2020 11:18pm

esposito wrote: »

Oh I know all about recent August’s in Ireland! I’m just thinking the last couple of days of August it might warm up but who knows.

This July has been so poor that I find it hard to believe that August will be on the same level in terms of chilly temperatures and many days of cloud and rain, this July is going to be tough to beat. We are most likely in store for another mixed August, but I've a feeling it won't be quite as bad as July, particularly the opening 10 or 12 days of July.

NIMAN · 27-07-2020 11:19pm

Had the heating on this evening.

That's just sad for July.

esposito · 27-07-2020 11:20pm

Gonzo wrote: »

Wednesday is cooler still. 10 to 13C widely across the country, for the height of summer these are disgraceful temperatures that wouldn't look out of place in mid December.

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Disgraceful is the word alright. This summer is as bad as they get temperature wise.

completedit · 28-07-2020 12:42am

I got back last summer from central Europe after some time away. Summer 19 was uneventful but pleasant I remember. Quite dry and summery. We said goodbye to summer in early June. It's not even about good weather or dryness. It's like a feeling and it's just felt like autumn for the last 4 weeks.
In South dublin

Donegal Storm · 28-07-2020 9:51am

Gonzo wrote: »

two very cool days coming up with temperatures several degrees below normal.

Tomorrow 13 to 16C, similar values that we would get in April.

The entire summer has been 13-16C in the north west so nothing unusual there for us. In fact just looking at Finner, we've only had 2 days in the whole of "July" that have topped 17C

Today is about the best we can hope for by the looks of it, cold (my phone currently has a 'feels like' temp of 6C :pac:), windy and showery but at least there's periods of sun

Summer 2020 - General Discussion

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