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Has Summer Already Been Cancelled?

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    #92
    JanuarySnowstor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭JanuarySnowstor


    Baby75 wrote: »
    June 2007 was dismal and wet so was the rest of the summer!

    another dark windy day out side again today! :confused:

    Am not so sure we have to go back to '07
    I don't have the stats to hand but just going by memory surely the last 2 years were equally bad.
    Certainly a proper heatwave is absent out of the last 5!


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    #93
    Baby75
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    JanuarySnowstor wrote: »
    Am not so sure we have to go back to '07
    I don't have the stats to hand but just going by memory surely the last 2 years were equally bad.
    Certainly a proper heatwave is absent out of the last 5!

    It sticks out in my head! last time I felt like this (craving warm sunny weather) was in summer 2007! but I think you are right its been as bad the last two years! I can not comment on summer 08 as I was living in Australia (wish I was there now)


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    #94
    damino
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    Have not posted in ages. Summer feels like late autumn. Maybe because sunspot activity is low, with no reports of sunspots over the last few days. Were suppose to at maximum activity in the sunspot cycle. I think its time to book a flight to the Med to get some sun.


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    #95
    iguana
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    Baby75 wrote: »
    June 2007 was dismal and wet so was the rest of the summer!

    I lived in London then and we weren't having a great summer which I was finding depressing after the '05 and '06 heatwaves. Came back to Ireland for a few days in August, into torrential rain and saw the headlines in the papers 'It's Official, 40 Days and 40 Nights of Rain.' I suddenly appreciated the dull but mild summer I'd had enormously.


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    #96
    Pangea
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    How much rain was there in Malin head yesterday?


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    #97
    gally74
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    I can't stomach this much longer


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    #98
    Baby75
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    gally74 wrote: »
    I can't stomach this much longer

    Me neither! I would love to head away to some Sun but not chance,not on less I won the lotto ;)


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    #99
    Gonzo
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    we've had central heating on full blast for the past 2 days and friends have their fire lit tonight and were heading towards July, crazy stuff:(, all the way through my childhood summers were not this wet or cold year after year.


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    #100
    mike65
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    I am actually considering a hot water bottle for me tootsies tonight! We are definitely into 1985 territory but even cooler I'd say.


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    #101
    CorkMetMan
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    mike65 wrote: »
    I am actually considering a hot water bottle for me tootsies tonight! We are definitely into 1985 territory but even cooler I'd say.

    Indeed Mike, June 1985 was bad, but this June is considerably worse. It's much, much wetter; 1985 had 71.3mm here in June, so far this month it's 170.3mm. June '85 had 158.8 hours of sunshine, this June has had 79.3 so far. June 1985 had an average temperature of 13.9c; this excuse for a June currently stands at 13.3c.

    Horrible....


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    #102
    mike65
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    1985 was a total cloud/wash out, so bad people started to see statues move!


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    #103
    Lucreto
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    mike65 wrote: »
    I am actually considering a hot water bottle for me tootsies tonight! We are definitely into 1985 territory but even cooler I'd say.

    What temperature is it in Waterford is 11C in Naas at the moment?

    It can't be that cold that you need a water bottle.


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    #104
    mike65
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    I have poorish circulation in my lower limbs hence the greater need.


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    #105
    Lucreto
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    mike65 wrote: »
    I have poorish circulation in my lower limbs hence the greater need.

    Oh right... its actually a good idea. I never thought about using a water bottle.

    I will pass this information on to the appropriate people who have the same problem. My uncle was using microwaveable slippers while in bed.


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    #106
    20silkcut
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    There are kids under 7 in this country who have never experienced 25 degrees plus in June /July / August . They must be conditioned to thinking summer comes in March/April for a few weeks disappears and returns in September for a few more weeks.


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    #107
    gbee
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    20silkcut wrote: »
    There are kids under 7 in this country who have never experienced 25 degrees plus in June /July / August . They must be conditioned to thinking summer comes in March/April for a few weeks disappears and returns in September for a few more weeks.

    But it does exactly that, and with exceptions, has done so for hundreds of years.


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    #108
    cgpg5
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    Baby75 wrote: »
    June 2007 was dismal and wet so was the rest of the summer!

    another dark windy day out side again today! :confused:

    Think June 07 actually started off quite decent (I was doing my JC) however from about the middle onwards it turned terrible! Never seen a worse summer in my lifetime I think.

    This year's June has just been awful. :(


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    #109
    Cianos
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    Sick of these damp, dank, dreary, dismal, deplorably dull, dilapidated and destitute days.


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    #110
    Deep Easterly
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    Pangea wrote: »
    How much rain was there in Malin head yesterday?

    It was 50mm + at least Pangea, (daily data not updated up to yesterday just yet on met.ie) but this could possibly be the highest daily total at Malin Head since October 1989.


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    #111
    Gonzo
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    so much for today being a big improvement, drizzely rain here all morning and cold.


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    #112
    Gonzo
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    20silkcut wrote: »
    There are kids under 7 in this country who have never experienced 25 degrees plus in June /July / August . They must be conditioned to thinking summer comes in March/April for a few weeks disappears and returns in September for a few more weeks.

    They must have been even more shocked when they saw snow sticking to the ground in 2009 and 2010!


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    #113
    MilanPan!c
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    Just started bucketing down in Rathfarnham


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    #114
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users Posts: 6,141 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    20silkcut wrote: »
    There are kids under 7 in this country who have never experienced 25 degrees plus in June /July / August . They must be conditioned to thinking summer comes in March/April for a few weeks disappears and returns in September for a few more weeks.
    It's nothing new really, as far as I know there wasn't what could be described as a good summer between 1959 and 1975. I'm sure there were August '03 and July '06 type heat waves in this period but I'm talking about a "long" hot summer.


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    #115
    123balltv
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    Cianos wrote: »
    Sick of these damp, dank, dreary, dismal, deplorably dull, dilapidated and destitute days.

    I know just like groundhog day :)


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    #116
    yellowlabrador
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    I went out for a walk this afternoon, it was chilly with a brisk wind, next thing the sun came out and I was roasting in my jumpers. It was very humid and uncomfortable I ended up just dragging myself along. !0 mins later the skies opened, back into the wintergear.


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    #117
    Baby75
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    well today was lovely here in Carlow nice and warm a bit of sun breaking through the clouds not proper summer weather but I will take anything over dull ,damp,dark wet days :)


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    #118
    bb1234567
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    When the rain stopped, clouds went and the sun came out any time today it was roasting hot ! like uncomfortably hot in a jumper, but then minutes later it could start absolutely lashing with the slightest of warning and itd be freezing cold with pitch black clouds...strange weather today


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    #119
    pauldry
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    Decent enough day in Sligo today.

    Not too much rain (only in morning)

    Sun shone a little and temperature reached 17c though it felt like 10c when the clouds came. Sun shone prolongedly as always at 2000 to 2146 as the babies had to sleep then. typical.

    11 months today


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    #120
    Graces7
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    mike65 wrote: »
    1985 was a total cloud/wash out, so bad people started to see statues move!

    That is interesting! I was at a new market on Saturdaty at the Pink Elephant at Kilbrittain and a lady came drumming up trade for their new market at Ballinspittle. She mentioned the moving statue so I looked it up last night; youtube have a video on it.

    One article I read said that the next year, vandals attacked the statue so it had to be replaced and that it all died down then, but they still speak of their moving statue.


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    #121
    Graces7
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    mike65 wrote: »
    I have poorish circulation in my lower limbs hence the greater need.


    Hot water bottles are great; I have Raynauds, so I lose touch with my feet on most days now.

    Great for aching backs too... I refuse totally to light a fire in June or use heating.

    Winter blankets are back on the bed and most of the runner bean seeds rotted.

    NB Bleacb bottle make great hot water bottles.


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