Current Conditions July 2013

Quickelles

Game over rather suddenly and unexpectedly it would appear.

Cloudy, some hazy sunshine earlier, breezy and 19.4C; a typical July day - all we need is a bit of rain and it's back to 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012...already. :mad:

Oscar Bravo

Cloudy dry and fairly warm in Castlebar ,22 degrees in a light SE'LY.

DOCARCH

Hazy sun here with a bit of a clearance to my south. 22.0c atm.

joujoujou

Cloudy.

Current data for Mayo/Roscommon border PWS
21 Jul 2013 16:18:16

Temperature (°C):
Current 21,9
Trend (per hour) +0,4
Average today 18,4
Wind chill 21,9
Heat Index 21,9
Dew Point 15,5
Rel Humidity 67%

Wind (km/h):
Current Gust 13,3 NW
Average Speed 8,7 NE

Rainfall (mm):
Current rate 0,0
Last hour 0,0
Total today 0,0
Total yesterday 0,0
Total this month 15,3
Total this year 363,9

Pressure (hPa):
Current 995,8
Trend (per hour) -0,4

Deank

Current data for N/W Kildare
21 July 2013 16:25:22

Temperature (°C):
Current 23.3
Trend (per hour) +0.7
Average today 18.0
Wind chill 23.3
Heat Index 23.3
Dew Point 14.9
Rel Humidity 59%

Wind (km/h):
Current Gust 8.6 ENE
Average Speed 5.0 ENE

Rainfall (mm):
Current rate 0.0
Last hour 0.0
Total today 0.0
Total yesterday 0.0
Total this month 6.9
Total this year 143.1

Pressure (hPa):
Current 1010.3
Trend (per hour) -0.4

Lumi

Hazy sunshine in Galway city
Temp 19.7C
Dew point 16.5C
RH 82%

Quickelles

Cloudy, breezy and very humid (85%) - much warmer today than this time yesterday; currently 19.5C.

Fell to to 15.1C last night with rh of 95% which makes it the warmest night this month in these parts.

I note the Met Eireann hindcasters have changed the max for Dublin today from 22C last night to 26C this morning!

Could be a muggy day ahead....

joujoujou

Current data for Mayo/Roscommon border PWS
22 Jul 2013 13:23:12

Temperature (°C):
Current 23,1
Trend (per hour) +1,5
Average today 16,8
Wind chill 23,1
Heat Index 23,1
Dew Point 16,4
Rel Humidity 66%

Wind (km/h):
Current Gust 14,8 E
Average Speed 10,3 SE

Rainfall (mm):
Current rate 0,0
Last hour 0,0
Total today 0,0
Total yesterday 0,0
Total this month 15,3
Total this year 363,9

Pressure (hPa):
Current 991,0
Trend (per hour) -0,3

April O Neill

Quickelles wrote: »

all we need is a bit of rain and it's back to 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012...already. :mad:

No it's not. Even if we have a crappy August, it will still be a far better summer than what you have listed. Those summers were bad ALL summer, every single month.

A bit of perspective please. We just had a great summer spell and June wasn't half bad either. Don't be such a misery guts.

Quickelles

April O Neill wrote: »

A bit of perspective please. We just had a great summer spell and June wasn't half bad either. Don't be such a misery guts.

June was cold.

July was very good from July 5th to July 20th (16 days).

I'm being realistic - I don't call 16 days of which about 13 were warm and sunny a great summer, even by Irish standards.

It might yet be one of the good memorable summers - but only if August isn't a washout.

.

Deank

Quickelles wrote: »

June was cold.

July was very good from July 5th to July 20th (16 days).

I'm being realistic - I don't call 16 days of which about 13 were warm and sunny a great summer, even by Irish standards.

It might yet be one of the good memorable summers - but only if August isn't a washout.

.

June was hardly cold, some cooler days but not as cold as previous years. 18 dry days too, not bad and rainfall was quite low.

June stats from my PWS below.
Summary for period 01/06/2013 to 30/06/2013

Temperature (°C):
Mean (1 minute) 14.9
Mean (min+max) 15.2
Mean Minimum 9.1
Mean Maximum 21.3
Minimum 0.0 on 08/06/2013
Maximum 26.3 on 09/06/2013
Highest Minimum 12.0 on 30/06/2013
Lowest Maximum 15.2 on 23/06/2013
Air frosts 0

Rainfall (mm):
Total for period 35.4
Wettest day 7.8 on 12/06/2013
High rain rate 5.4 day 12/06/2013
Rain days 12
Dry days 18

s.m

very hazy up here in donegal

April O Neill

Quickelles wrote: »

June was cold.

July was very good from July 5th to July 20th (16 days).

I'm being realistic - I don't call 16 days of which about 13 were warm and sunny a great summer, even by Irish standards.

It might yet be one of the good memorable summers - but only if August isn't a washout.

I'm sorry, but you are still absolutey mental in the head to compare this summer to the preceding six.

Early June may have been cool, but it had a gorgeous cheery sunny spell, and even when that ended, it was mostly dry. The summer months in the preceding six were generally actually COLD, not even cool. And even before the hot spell began, there was a pleasant balminess present in the weeks leading up to it. That alone is a huge improvement on the previous 6 summers.

July had a hot, sunny spell.

Like I said, even with a crappy August, it has still, as of now, beaten the previous six.

We had NO good months during those summers.

June this year = good to very good
July this year = very good to excellent

So, what you are trying to say just doesn't stack up, even if it goes downhill from here.

And, IMO, this is a good summer even by Irish standards.

Quickelles

April O Neill wrote: »

I'm sorry, but you are still absolutey mental in the head to compare this summer to the preceding six.

I am NOT comparing this summer to the preceding six; I'm comparing it to the climatic average.

The "preceding six" were exceptionally bad.

By climatic average standards, 2013 is nothing special so far; cool dry June followed by a 16 day period of warm sunny weather in July.

It all depends on August.

April O Neill

Quickelles wrote: »

I am NOT comparing this summer to the preceding six; I'm comparing it to the climatic average.

You said:

Quickelles wrote: »

Gall we need is a bit of rain and it's back to 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012...already.

"A bit of rain" will not bring us back to the years YOU mentioned, where every goddamn month was cold, windy and wet. We don't know what August will do yet, but if it's not cold, it won't compare to the years you mentioned and even if it does, this summer will still be a vast, vast improvement.

Pre-2006, the last longish warm spell was 2003, and that was overcast more than it was sunny. We didn't really get the accompanying sun that the UK got, which people seem to forget for some reason. It was most humid, overcast and very unpleasant. The weather we've just had was NOT a regular occurence pre-2007. We'd get a handful of scorching summer days but longish period remained rare. 2006 was noteworthy.

Harps

2am and its still hovering around 20C, warmest night I've experienced in this whole spell

I think its fairly obvious that its been a better than average summer up to now. June was dry with plenty of warm, sunny days, July has been exceptionally warm, dry and sunny up to now with another warm week forecast. Even with a bad August it'll rank alongside 2006 as one of our better summers

Quickelles

April O Neill wrote: »

where every goddamn month was cold, windy and wet.

Bit of an exaggeration I'd say but I'm not going bother checking out 18 individual months to extend this futile exchange.

By long term average standards if the weather is bad from now till the end of August then this summer, here in Dublin, will have been nothing exceptional.

That stats support me. This is my final comment on the matter; I have a memory (and records) that extend back to the early 1970s.

This morning it is very dull and has a look of precipitation about it; temp 18C and rh 90%.

Muggy and unpleasant.

Last night the temp only dropped to 16.3C; the warmest night of the current warm snap at this location.

Lumi

A comparatively cool 18.8C in Galway city
Light SE'ly breeze and rainfall of just 0.2mm recorded since midnight, 0.4mm in the last 24hrs

RH 89%
DP 16.9C
Barometer 1009.05 hPa: Falling slowly -0.09 hPa/hr

flazio

Seen someone say it's bucketing in Athlone, well I'm in Ballinasloe, no rain here, clouds don't look heavy. 12:15 radar suggests we just had a rain fall, but honestly it's still dry here.

whitebriar

Lovely day in Arklow
22.3c and sunny

joujoujou

Brief temperature readings in Sligo last night:

0:00 - 23°C

1:00 - 22°C

2:00 - 21°C

3:00 - 20°C

4:00 - 20°C

5:00 - 19°C

6:00 - 18°C

7:00 - 18°C

8:00 - driving home too fast to notice what temperature was.

Back home - 6.3mm of rainfall in less than 15 minutes, nice.

Current data for Mayo/Roscommon border PWS
23 Jul 2013 13:44:19

Temperature (°C):
Current 18,5
Trend (per hour) -0,7
Average today 16,9
Wind chill 18,4
Heat Index 18,5
Dew Point 17,0
Rel Humidity 91%

Wind (km/h):
Current Gust 20,9 SE
Average Speed 15,5 SSE

Rainfall (mm):
Current rate 0,0
Last hour 0,0
Total today 6,3
Total yesterday 0,0
Total this month 21,6
Total this year 370,2

Pressure (hPa):
Current 987,0
Trend (per hour) -0,1

Gonzo

22C and cloudy here, feeling very warm. rain not far away tho.

April O Neill

Cloudy at the mo in SE Mayo. Actually looking forward to cycling in the rain later. :cool:

Shpongler

Nice heavy shower of rain here just west of Mallow.. First in weeks

squonk

Very heavy shower with lightening and thunder just going over the city here in Galway at the moment. Quite an impressive payoff from what initially didn't look like the biggest shower in the distance. Lightening roughly every 1-2 minutes. Very heavy bursts of rain.

hinault

A very heavy rainfall shower here in Dublin City Centre at the moment.
Temperature guage reads 22 Celsius.
Light breeze.

My name is URL

Mid-Louth... some nice rumbles of thunder atm. Really heavy rain too. Place seems like it might flood. Puddles filled up after a few seconds!

Thargor

Just closed the velux windows upstairs for the first time in 2 weeks because its cold in Greystones

Lumi

Moderate rainfall in Galway city: 1.2mm in the last hour
Temp 16.9C

joujoujou

Is our weather back to normal?

More than likely.

Current data for Mayo/Roscommon border PWS
24 Jul 2013 14:12:32

Temperature (°C):
Current 17,5
Trend (per hour) +0,3
Average today 15,6
Wind chill 17,2
Heat Index 17,5
Dew Point 17,2
Rel Humidity 98%

Wind (km/h):
Current Gust 23,4 SE
Average Speed 14,7 SE

Rainfall (mm):
Current rate 0,0
Last hour 0,0
Total today 7,5
Total yesterday 9,3
Total this month 32,1
Total this year 380,7

Pressure (hPa):
Current 984,9
Trend (per hour) -0,2