Name the year

July

Can anyone remember what year it was that we had a really good summer somewhere around the mid 90s?

Mental Mickey

July wrote: »

Can anyone remember what year it was that we had a really good summer somewhere around the mid 90s?

Is this a trick question?

Supercell

1995 July and August were hot.

1997 had a hot August.

July

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Is this a trick question?

No!

Just thinking back over that summer and I wasn't sure what age I was so I said I'd ask the weather Jimmy McGees!

Think 95 must be the one I'm thinking of.

Thanks

Danno

1995 - IMHO one of the best years for weather! The summer was great with most days from the second week of April through to November having clear blue sky and sun. The heat really kicked off in mid-june and lasted until the end of august with most days over 25c. By contrast, many of the nights in April, May and early June were frosty.

July

I worked in the bog that summer, it was brilliant! The farmer's tan has well worn away since!

Danno

I worked in a Glasshouse - no tan Over 50c everyday in it!

DOCARCH

1995 definitely - I was in the US that year and I remember hearing about somebody who was working on a chimney in Dublin having to be rescued due to heat stroke!

Mothman

1995, a year I was on travels.
Came home in time (or so it was planned) for bulk of harvest on 15th Aug.
Flying in, no green to be seen, just brown, like the parts of Africa I'd just come from, and harvest was practically over!!
But it was an easy harvest, so help was not really missed.

Mobhi1

Got married on 19th August 1995 in the English midlands. Have some great wedding photos with an incredibly clear blue sky.:)
Had a farmer uncle from Kildare who wasn't going to be able to come over because he would be in the middle of the harvest but amazingly the harvest finished several days earlier and he was there!
Made several trips back to Dublin during that summer and was able to dress like a real tourist in t-shirt, shorts and sandals all the time!:D
Went away on honeymoon a couple of days after the wedding and I was told that the weather was back to normal soon after we left.

darkman2

Summer 1995 - whilst not always warm was quite impressive. Notable for its prolonged spells of warm or even hot weather




Lovely Spanish plume of hot air - temperatures that day would have been at or just exceeding 30C inland.:cool:

Neamhshuntasach

I remember that summer and being down in Brittas Bay. The sand was so hot i couldn't walk on it. The only experience of that i've ever had in Ireland.

Danno

Mobhi1 wrote: »

Got married on 19th August 1995 in the English midlands. Went away on honeymoon a couple of days after the wedding and I was told that the weather was back to normal soon after we left.

Spot on - I decided to get out of the glasshouse for the last week of August 1995 and go to Tramore for a week. The weather still good 19 to 22c with fair weather cloud. Though I remember it as being cold especially in the WNW breeze! The temperatures recovered in time for back to school time in September!

I also remember watching the BBC weather around the 20th October and he was going on about how 22c was recorded in the north of Iceland, yes Iceland! A record had been set. 24c was the daily max here that time.

The weather remained very mild or warm into December. The leaves were still on the trees when Bill Clinton visited in the start of December. Yet, the Christmas period was very cold and snowy from the 20th right out to 12th January. Amazing year of weather.

The St Patricks Day thunderstorms were very impressive in 1995 also.

Snowbie

I had a couple of pre-season friendly matches in that horrid month of heat which has scarred me for life. Down with this sort of weather when playin footie.

August 2003 was just as bad

Paddy.1

Snowbie wrote: »

August 2003 was just as bad

August 2003 was one of my favorate months, had 5 thunder days in a row!!! I don't remember what the heat was like though. Summer 1995 was horrible I think, I remember I actually became physically sick towards september waking up to burning, incessant sunshine everyday. It was too much and unnatural!!!.

Snowbie

I suppose if there is one plus i can take outa the heat is a good storm.

Yeah Paddy, i dont do heat well myself and when its humid clamy and sticky type crap, well forget it.
In a funny sorta way, to a point i kinda enjoyed last summers rain, it was almost a break from the humid muck and kept the high pollen at bay.

Danno

The one thing about summer 95 was the humidity was low maost of the way. There was a large lack of thunderstorms that summer despite such high temperatures. I always remember saying to myself that summer that when she breaks down, she will really break down with a huge thunderstorm. I was kinda expecting a July 25 1985 again, but it never came (in these parts).