Worst summer ever

who the fug

marcsignal wrote: »

You sure that was 1981 ?

I remember a 2 week long teachers strike when I was in secondary, but don't think it was Sept 1981.
If I'm not mistaken, I think I have an old newspaper from the time relating to this. It will be among a ton of similar newspapers and stuff, from significant and quirky events that I collect, but I'll see if I can dig it out.

I started secondary in 1980, in 2nd year we did not start back for two weeks because of a strike.

Which was great, because I got taken to the Botanical gardens, Natural History Museem, walked up the to the Three rock, and other parts of dublin, by this ex British army officer/IRA Man/Papal Knight

give kids a break in the eighties because of weather,you is having a giraffe

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kelle wrote: »

TBH I can't remember one good Summer since 2006!

I started running this year, and I found it easy because I didn't have to endure high temperatures during races - it was always cool, windy or raining buckets much to my delight

yep youre right there just as the recession had started, its all connected.

Father Damo

LizT wrote: »

It's Ireland. Why are people always so surprised when we have a sh1te summer?

Growing up summer was generally sh1te, but once every few years we had a good solid one, and even the rest of the summers usually had one or two periods of really good weather lasting a few weeks. Put basically, most summers you had a long enough spell to leave yourself with a tan for a few weeks or months.

I think it was 2008 I remember we had maybe 2 or 3 sunny days. It was after that that I decided that mentally I could not stick another summer back home. Even if our economy was not tits up I still would not be living in Ireland, the weather is too awful. I would gladly live back home if we had the same weather as the rest of Northern and Central Europe- a bitter winter in exchange for 3 or 4 months of great weather.

Grayson

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Eve_Dublin

holystungun9 wrote: »

Sh1te weather is just a state of mind...















Greetings from sunny warm Madrid.

Twas an awful 24 degrees there yesterday though! And it'll be an icy 27 degrees today. Brrrr. God love us.

twinQuins

df1985 wrote: »

today would be classed as a cracker in comparison to how ****e the rest of the summer was, only about 20 degrees.

"Only"? How do people like temperatures that high...

marcsignal

who the fug wrote: »

I started secondary in 1980, in 2nd year we did not start back for two weeks because of a strike.

Which was great, because I got taken to the Botanical gardens, Natural History Museem, walked up the to the Three rock, and other parts of dublin, by this ex British army officer/IRA Man/Papal Knight

give kids a break in the eighties because of weather,you is having a giraffe

Actually, you're spot on who the fug, fair play to your memory.

I have the clipping here from the Evening Press which reads..

'Indian Summer beckons as Teachers strike looms'

...with just a pic of a crowd on a beach somewhere. I've no scanner but will try to post later.

Can't imaging the kids are too happy about our half decent weather right now

Colmustard

Had to put thsi somewhere. It is adding to my miserable summer

FKUC DUBLIN

We are getting hammered, I am abandoning this match before I blow a gasket.

splendid101

Sappa wrote: »

I can't for my 31 years remember a ****tier summer than we have just had.
Depressing weather not 3 good days in a row and a major let down.

I'm sick of people giving out about the weather. There were so many days this year that I was stuck in work, schweatin' me head off, wishing I was outside in the sun. So many days. We had about 20 or 30 days with temperatures up around 18, 19, 20 degrees and higher. Plenty of nice days in April, May, June, July, August and September has been pretty good so far.

It was a grand summer.

Don't forget about the nice heat wave back in March.

Lawrence1895

Sometimes, I think, people prefer sunshine all the time, temperatures above 40 degrees all the time, forest fires...

pickarooney

enda1 wrote: »

I live abroad but visited Ireland for 1 week over the summer. 5 of the 7 days were great. 3 of them spectacular! Must have gotten lucky

Yeah, I was back for three weeks and the weather was pretty good. There were only two really bad days and some great sunshine, relatively speaking.

Chuck Stone

'69 was moist, warm, and had a happy ending.

Arawn

Speak for yourself i never had 2 days rain in a row all summer

Jonah42

Also had a poor summer. Bad weather, lots of funerals to go to and on crutches for a while. Starting to save now to go abroad next summer! Rio! Awww yeah!

nacimroc

splendid101 wrote: »

I'm sick of people giving out about the weather. There were so many days this year that I was stuck in work, schweatin' me head off, wishing I was outside in the sun. So many days. We had about 20 or 30 days with temperatures up around 18, 19, 20 degrees and higher. Plenty of nice days in April, May, June, July, August and September has been pretty good so far.

It was a grand summer.

Don't forget about the nice heat wave back in March.

20 degrees and pissing rain! As someone who works outdoors every day, I couldn't disagree more (as would everyone else who works outdoors)!

Worst ever in my opinion. I had to buy a second set of wet great at the end of July as my first set was constantly wet. I go to the same site every Tuesday and had to wear my wet overalls every single Tuesday from April until last week.:mad:

IM0

once you get use to the fact we dont get continental style summers in ireland you realise how dumb it is to complain every year.

stop complaining! oh no wait then you will start complaining that children have feet, so bah humbug! :mad:

Sappa

splendid101 wrote: »

Sappa wrote: »

I can't for my 31 years remember a ****tier summer than we have just had.
Depressing weather not 3 good days in a row and a major let down.

I'm sick of people giving out about the weather. There were so many days this year that I was stuck in work, schweatin' me head off, wishing I was outside in the sun. So many days. We had about 20 or 30 days with temperatures up around 18, 19, 20 degrees and higher. Plenty of nice days in April, May, June, July, August and September has been pretty good so far.

It was a grand summer.

Don't forget about the nice heat wave back in March.

You keep deluding yourself lad,grand summer me arse.

splendid101

nacimroc wrote: »

20 degrees and pissing rain! As someone who works outdoors every day, I couldn't disagree more (as would everyone else who works outdoors)!

Worst ever in my opinion. I had to buy a second set of wet great at the end of July as my first set was constantly wet. I go to the same site every Tuesday and had to wear my wet overalls every single Tuesday from April until last week.:mad:

Sappa wrote: »

You keep deluding yourself lad,grand summer me arse.

Where are you living lads? I'm in Dublin and that's been my experience.

It's just the usual Irish weather. We always get rain. It's not Spain.

It was 20 degrees with rain but in August for example, there were a lot of days when it rained in the morning but was bright sunshine from 12 o'clock until 7. Can't ask for more than that.

Just wrecks my head people complaining about the weather. Shure it's the same as always. The last 6 years in the office I'm in, as we get to the end of August, the same conversation about how bad the summer has been goes on. If it's a bad summer every year, well then it's not a bad summer. It's just summer.

There were sh*tloads of sunny days (in Dublin).

Having said all that, there were days that were sunny here and then I'd be chatting to my Mam in Portlaoise and she'd say "terrible day isn't it?"

guitarzero

I've just gotten used to it. Most Irish people I know spend vast majority in front of the box or the internet regardless, who gives rats...

nacimroc

splendid101 wrote: »

It was 20 degrees with rain but in August for example, there were a lot of days when it rained in the morning but was bright sunshine from 12 o'clock until 7. Can't ask for more than that.

If you were working outside you would have got soaked for 4 hours that morning! And thats a good day?? Great summer my hole! Its got to the stage where people don't even know what a good day should be like anymore!

delw

Well it looks like a fine settled start to Autumn

fonecrusher1

LizT wrote: »

It's Ireland. Why are people always so surprised when we have a sh1te summer?

Its not surprising, its just fvckin annoying. What is it at this stage? 4 bad summers in a row. Jesus its kinda depressing.

By the way, the people saying 'ah twas a grand summer begora'.....eh? WTF are on about? Did you actually spend the 'summer' in this country coz all I will remember from the summer of 2012 is

rain - drizzle - cloudy - humidity - rain - rain - more drizzle and so on and so forth...

I'd be the first person to say this is a fantastic place to be when we get a decent bit of weather but jeesus this continual non-summer business year after year is kinda spirit crushing.

guitarzero

No one ever said this country was supposed to be for habitation, why do you think 90% of the population is practically boxed in on the east side? The Celts (or whatever we are) were the tribe that got the shove everywhere they went in darwinian fashion. Dont mean this harshly, but you could move to a nicer climate, we are a nomadic species and weather was a major reason why.

Sappa

Met Eireann confirm Ireland has just had it's worst summer since 1986.
Looks like we weren't overreacting then.