Early July: Heatwave Potential

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fryup wrote: »

will we get an all time irish record this week??

Not a chance.

Weathering

Weathering wrote: »

Surprised by certain posters longing for winter and complaining about the heat. I understand your discomfort but it all seriousness come on when do we ever get weather like this. Soak it up

I don't mind it during the day but at night when leaving a window open means all kinds of everything crawling and flying into the house it's another thing. And it's not like there's lovely sunshine to enjoy at night either.

maquiladora

MadYaker wrote: »

Was out wesht for the weeked. Today was lovely. How long can we expect this to go on for?

At the moment, it looks like lasting until around next weekend.

leahyl

maquiladora wrote: »

At the moment, it looks like lasting until around next weekend.

And after next weekend how are the charts looking? I know it's way too early to be certain but could it possibly continue into the following week?

maquiladora

leahyl wrote: »

And after next weekend how are the charts looking? I know it's way too early to be certain but could it possibly continue into the following week?

Well yeah it's too early to say, but deep FI looks like high pressure won't be going too far away from us, so maybe a period of a little less warmer weather and then a return to warmer days again before too long is possible.

I'm not really lookin that far ahead though. Just going to enough this week first!

123 LC

John.Icy wrote: »

Spent all day hearing and reading about how fabulous it was down in Kerry for todays match...watching the highlights and its completely cloudy and dull.

Never trust a Munster persons weather report.

Ah it must have clouded over for the game I guess! :P

What a forecast there on the nine news. Fantastic!

it was sunny up until the game :P but trust me, during the game it was absolutely boiling, if it was sunny on top of it I wouldn't have stuck it :O


Anyone know of a website or something that shows all the max temps of the previous day, in different parts of the country? (If that makes any sense :P)

ninebeanrows

123 LC wrote: »

it was sunny up until the game :P but trust me, during the game it was absolutely boiling, if it was sunny on top of it I wouldn't have stuck it :O


Anyone know of a website or something that shows all the max temps of the previous day, in different parts of the country? (If that makes any sense :P)

This script loads from a free server and isn't cached so will be slow but gives the max temp during last 24hrs

http://www.weatherinireland.com/p/todays-weather-extremes.html

Rebelbrowser

Haven't posted in a while as my wife and I had a double delivery recently and hands are, literally, rather full. Stunner of a day here today. Tonight roasting too. have one of those gro egg room thermometers in cot and can get room down to 21c if I open the window full but it jumps to 24c everytime I close the window. also had a car reading (yeah, I know) of 31c at 6pm. never seen that before in Ireland.

sunbeam

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Sea Fog rolling in from the North here in Castlebar, making it go dark quite fast. Very rare to see that so far inland,well here anyway!

Same here, the horizon was starting to mist up just before sunset. Quite eerie-I've only ever seen it like that at dawn before.

sunbeam

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't mind it during the day but at night when leaving a window open means all kinds of everything crawling and flying into the house it's another thing. And it's not like there's lovely sunshine to enjoy at night either.

Yeah, I'm watching six tiny moths fluttering around the table lamp as I write and our local friendly stray tom cat tried to climb in the top of the kitchen window to get at my lot's food half an hour ago. Still at least there's no midges-yet....

blankAs

for once i love living in tramore! having lived away from the beach for some time i now fully appreciate being able to get out of bed, pick up the picnic basket and walk down to the beach for the day, its almost like living on holidays! except someone needs to go shopping and theres no little woman coming in and cleaning the apartment, real life stuff in good weather like this is just a pain! its hitting over 20 here and people are having to go in to the sea for a swim just to cool down, while the water is not at med temperatures yet, it is still providing for nice swimming conditions

sunbabe08

don't get me wrong i'm thrilled with this weather, but i would have loved it even more if i was living down in youghal again this year. darn it.

oh well :D may this heatwave last for a while longer. loving the sunshine. topping up my tan so at least i won't look like a milk bottle when i got to spain at the end of august

cherryghost

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

Haven't posted in a while as my wife and I had a double delivery recently and hands are, literally, rather full. Stunner of a day here today. Tonight roasting too. have one of those gro egg room thermometers in cot and can get room down to 21c if I open the window full but it jumps to 24c everytime I close the window. also had a car reading (yeah, I know) of 31c at 6pm. never seen that before in Ireland.

Congratulations man

fryup

Washout wrote: »

wish it wwas like this all year round

i don't, its too hot

couldn't sleep last night:o

Tom Cruises Left Nut

fryup wrote: »

i don't, its too hot

couldn't sleep last night:o

Same, ah sure it will get cold soon and I can hunt for snow again :pac:

TheMilkyPirate

I can understand when people can't sleep on holidays in the canaries or whatever becuase 29c at night after being in the high 30s all day is unbearable.

But 22c in Ireland? Cmon lads kick the blanket off or something.. It's not THAT bad.

Outkast_IRE

Its the humidity that makes it more uncomfortable, I was just out running there and the humidity was quite high my sweat wasn't evaporating much at all. Not a nice feeling.

In spain or the Canaries if its 30 degrees, the humidity would be very low, this would be a far more comfortable for people to deal with

ninebeanrows

The heat is well and truly on! 23 at 10am in few spots, 30c is not impossible today.

DOCARCH

baraca wrote: »

I can understand when people can't sleep on holidays in the canaries or whatever becuase 29c at night after being in the high 30s all day is unbearable.

But 22c in Ireland? Cmon lads kick the blanket off or something.. It's not THAT bad.

Air conditioning probably helps. :rolleyes:

Weathering

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Its the humidity that makes it more uncomfortable, I was just out running there and the humidity was quite high my sweat wasn't evaporating much at all. Not a nice feeling.

In spain or the Canaries if its 30 degrees, the humidity would be very low, this would be a far more comfortable for people to deal with

The humidity in the Canaries is unreal

fryup

would you look at that, not a clould to be seen

Weathering

Glorious morning in Donegal. 23degrees at 10.00am but its clouding over now in all directions

maquiladora

The magic 30 appears on the YRNO chart for Tuesday afternoon :cool:

Israeli Superiority

Weathering wrote: »

The humidity in the Canaries is unreal

No, it's not. It's mostly dominated by dry Saharan air.

123 LC

maquiladora wrote: »

The magic 30 appears on the YRNO chart for Tuesday afternoon :cool:

what website are these charts on?

maquiladora

123 LC wrote: »

what website are these charts on?

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=en&MENU=0000000000&CONT=ukuk&MODELL=yrno&MODELLTYP=1&BASE=-&VAR=tmp2&HH=39&ZOOM=1&ARCHIV=0&RES=0&WMO=&PERIOD=

relaxed

fryup wrote: »

would you look at that, not a clould to be seen

Looking at that we seem to be rightly screwed, stuck in the eye of a heat wave.:D

maquiladora

Time to head outside and enjoy it. 24 here already. :cool:

Cheerful Spring

by PATRICK COUNIHAN, IrishCentral Reporter
Published Thursday, January 3, 2013, 6:19 AMUpdated Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 12:39 PM

Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Ireland-to-bask-in-Med-like-sunshine-as-The-Gathering-gathers-pace.

Ireland is set for a scorching summer as thousands come home for The
Gathering, according to a world renowned weather expert.

New Zealand based long range forecaster Ken Ring is predicting a long, hot summer after years of washouts according to the Irish Sun newspaper.

Ring uses the moon, sun and tidal activity to make his forecasts months in advance.

He shot to prominence in Ireland when he predicted the Arctic winter two years ago.

The Kiwi has predicted a wet spring and patchy rain in June before temperatures soar in July and August.

He is forecasting that temperatures will hit a high last seen in 1995.

He told the paper: “Temperatures may reach 30°C or more in July’s second week, which may cause some media talk about a heatwave.

“August may be a month of prolonged sunshine spells and even drought conditions with a period of 15 or more days on which no rainfall is expected in some areas. September will be balmy.”

Rikand

maquiladora wrote: »

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=en&MENU=0000000000&CONT=ukuk&MODELL=yrno&MODELLTYP=1&BASE=-&VAR=tmp2&HH=39&ZOOM=1&ARCHIV=0&RES=0&WMO=&PERIOD=

We have the only "30" in all of the north west of europe on that chart

snowstorm445

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Its the humidity that makes it more uncomfortable, I was just out running there and the humidity was quite high my sweat wasn't evaporating much at all. Not a nice feeling.

In spain or the Canaries if its 30 degrees, the humidity would be very low, this would be a far more comfortable for people to deal with

Agreed. I was in Portugal last summer and while temperatures regularly reached the mid thirties during the day, humidity was always fairly low and sleeping was relatively comfortable IIRC. I think it has something to do with the colder sea currents running down Iberia and North West Africa.

Here in Ireland, humidity is always high in summer, and during warm spells nights can be sticky. In places like Barcelona, during summer, the humidity can be unbearable at night.

Rikand

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

“August MAY be a month of prolonged sunshine spells and even drought conditions with a period of 15 or more days on which no rainfall is expected in some areas. September will be balmy.”

nothing definite so

Cheerful Spring

Rickylovesuall wrote: »

nothing definite so

I think hes been very accurate so far. We are heading into the second week of July exactly when he said Ireland would experience a heatwave.

He made the prediction back in Jan of 2013. Who believed him then?

Rikand

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

I think hes been very accurate so far. We are heading into the second week of July exactly when he said Ireland would experience a heatwave.

He made the prediction back in Jan of 2013. Who believed him then?

Apologies, I completely missed the date at the top.

fairplay!

ninebeanrows

Only 19.3c here on the coast, perfect.

chris2007

21c here in Coolock

DOCARCH

Just reached 22.0c here now. Very light NE breeze.

mitresize5

how in Gods name are people complaining about the heat after the last 5 'summers' we had.

This time three years ago we were two weeks into a 57 day period where it rained every day at Shannon airport

Tom Cruises Left Nut

25 in Naas now

mike65

East of UK away from SE in the fog

DOCARCH

23.0c here now. Stunning...clear blue skies and very light breeze.

snaps

The west is rocking....Shannon, Newport and Bellmullet all officially 25c at midday in the reports at the met stations. Dont think we will make the magic big 30, but you never know.

Ronan|Raven

Need rain

atsbury

Glorious in Co Wexford. Not a cloud in the sky. 22 degrees in a nice sea breeze!

snaps

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

Need rain

Garden is parched....Its hard work all this watering in the evening!

pad199207

26.9c here now and feeling hot!

Larbre34

Well I've seen it all now.......

http://www.meteoalarm.eu/en_UK/0/0/IE-Ireland.html


Our thresholds for heat arent very macho are they! Temps exceeding 27C every day! Oh my!

Keith96

24C and humidity at 64%.HOT!

Larbre34

Here in Dun Laoghaire the sea breeze has it pegged back to 16C, according to the Harbour weather website. It is however cloudless with a slight haze and toasty in the sunshine!

snaps

The sun is hot though. Hot enough to make the tar on the roads "sticky" and my black plastic wheelie bin smell of melting plastic