THE HEAT, I feel liek I AM GOING INSANE...

Shakespeare's Sister

It's an "Irish thing" to moan about Irish people giving out about the weather tbh. Irish weather is sh-t - hardly heinous to complain about it when it's bad.

I don't think the people who don't like humidity are the same people who moan about miserable weather - and even if they were, so what? It's still possible to dislike both.

Frank Lee Midere

Herb Powell wrote: »

Yeah sure don't I know

I just mean, 20-22 degrees? That's nice, but it's not hot. Warm for Ireland, but definitely not unknown to occur.

It didn't even get near that. Not in Dublin. High today was 18 and that was for an hour. Mostly it was 15-17. It's 13 now. At 10 pm.

That's warm for April. It's normal for June. Even in Ireland.

Frank Lee Midere

Magaggie wrote: »

It's an "Irish thing" to moan about Irish people giving out about the weather tbh. Irish weather is sh-t - hardly heinous to complain about it when it's bad.

I don't think the people who don't like humidity are the same people who moan about miserable weather - and even if they were, so what? It's still possible to dislike both.

BUT THERE IS NOTHIING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT TODAY! It's neither hot nor especially humid.

My weather app says it's 67% humidity. Which is low. It feels cool.

Funny I was thinking this morning that we haven't really had sticky humidity yet. Although august tends to be the worst month for that.

Shakespeare's Sister

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

BUT THERE IS NOTHIING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT TODAY! It's neither hot nor especially humid.

To some people it is - especially in non air-conditioned offices and on buses. Might depend where you are in the country too. I'm finding it warmer than usual too - definitely felt quite humid from last Friday on. But it's lovely in fairness.
But if people find it uncomfortable though, that's their prerogative. It can't be said that they're used to it, in fairness.

JustAddWater

Un Croissant wrote: »

I hate hate hate the heat.

Yeah it was a ****e movie!

Heat on the other hand....

Teyla Emmagan

I am in Spain. It was 41 degrees Saturday and not a breath of air. The sun was so hot it was like standing beside a fire. I thought I would pass out at one stage. When I got back to the apartment in the evening I was like a lobster that had an allergic reaction and then been cheesegrated. Very unpleasant weather for a freckly Irish person.

A balmy 29 for most of today!

PictureFrame

I too am one of those wacky folk that loves Irish weather as it normally is. I love rain and strong winds. You feel so comfortable and toasty when you're inside work/college on a really cold day looking out the window.

Heat to me (anything over 14 degrees) just is uncomfortable

GalwayGuy2

It's too warm to go to sleep

Herb Powell

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

It didn't even get near that. Not in Dublin. High today was 18 and that was for an hour. Mostly it was 15-17. It's 13 now. At 10 pm.

That's warm for April. It's normal for June. Even in Ireland.

Feck sake. Couldn't even leave the windows open at night here last week, didn't get below 20 degrees at any point for a good 4 days at least.

I'M IRISH, like, I'm not used to that at all!

Legs.Eleven

I think it's an Irish thing to complain about those who are complaining about those who are complaining about those who are complaining about the weather.




All I care about is that it holds up so I don't have to dig out my wintery clothes again (which I've packed away) when I visit next month! Hold up, Irish weather. Hold up!

kowloon

I wish I'd bought in a load of good cider. Dinner will be outside this week.

worded

I'm like a lizard on a rock.

I was cycling in 40 degrees last year.

Love the sun, love the heat and listening to good music cycling more than sex. The ultimate ride that can go on for hours.

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet yeah !

mgcf81

I love it and never want it to leave ... I wish every day was like this

Irish Guitarist

It was cloudy here on Saturday. I walked about 14 or 15 miles and it was nice and relaxing. I walked the same distance today and now I look like a beetroot.

NordieSteve

I'm in an attic room that according to my clock thermometer us 24 degrees, I've the fan on full blast though.

OneEightSeven

The UV index at 2p.m. today was 7.5 in Dublin: http://www.uvawareness.com/uv-index/uv-index.php?location=dublin

June 21st is when we are closest to the Sun.

murpho999

I wonder if people here have ever been abroad to a "warm" country at all.

Today was pleasant at best, it is by no means warm.

Un Croissant

murpho999 wrote: »

I wonder if people here have ever been abroad to a "warm" country at all.

Today was pleasant at best, it is by no means warm.

Ah yes. And when it rains in Somalia they mention how wet it is in Ireland.

fussyonion

It bloody well was warm today! Or else my back garden's just a sun-trap.
I was out in the back garden all day, slapping on the sun-cream and actually sweating. The sun was in full force and I even had to take shade, it was that hot.
Don't care about you lot saying "But it's not even that warm", cos it WAS warm in my back garden. Bloody roasting and my shoulder got burned too, so ner.

lulu1

I for one will never be in a warm country today was warm enough for me. The kids are at an age now and asking to go to Spain cause all their friends are going. God the thought of laying all day on a beach doing nothing would drive me mad, The sooner the warm weather goes the better next door neighbour all 20 stone of him prancing about in shorts and him burnt pure red Dont get me wrong great neighbours but could do without looking at his beer belly all day

Lyaiera

It was that warm. It was averaging 26c in my cycle on the sun. This same thing comes up every time we have this thread. All the met eireann and weather reports are taken from thermometers that are in a box, so they're in the shade. And the boxes have airholes, so they get a breeze if there is one. If you're sitting in the sun it's going to be a lot warmer.

Reiketsu

GalwayGuy2 wrote: »

It's too warm to go to sleep

I second that, I have a fan on and it's pointless.

LizzieJones

KungPao wrote: »

Yeah, 17 degrees. Ouch! We weren't designed for these extreme temperatures!

Where I am, near Hamilton, Ontario, it is currently 26 celsius (feels like 30 on the humidex meter). More of the same all week.

LizzieJones

GalwayGuy2 wrote: »

Yup. I was talking to a woman with beauty spots on her cleavage. I was a goner from the beginning

But where's there's sun, there's...

:cool:

Sunglasses.

Did you know that women can legally walk around topless where I live?
We even have nude beaches.

Spunge

Jimmyie wrote: »

- LETS ALL GET TOGETHER NACKED AND GO IN THE SEA AND GO SURFING AND STUFF.


ALso, the other other very fun THING is CHRISTMAS, the feeling. ALSO, OMG I JUST CAME UP WITH THE BEST IDEA, what if you pay someone to buy you random presents with that money, THEN YOU take DMT before you go to bed, then wake up on christmas night AND GET THE PRESENTS

uwatmate

mad muffin

Spunge wrote: »

uwatmate

He's already taken the dmt, don't you know.

ceadaoin.

It was 42 degrees celsius where I live before I left last week to visit Ireland. Stop moaning! It's nice and warm, not hot.

mad muffin

It's going to be scorchio today. Already 15° and I'm sitting here in shorts and tshirt with all the windows in the house open. Might crack out the paddling pool later. :cool:

LizzieJones

mad muffin wrote: »

It's going to be scorchio today. Already 15° and I'm sitting here in shorts and tshirt with all the windows in the house open. Might crack out the paddling pool later. :cool:

It's nearly 3:30 in the morning and feeling like 23 here and I actually feel cold.

Jude13

46 degrees here but feels allot hotter due to the humidity. Jogging has been put off for early morning / evening when it cools down to a nice 30.

http://www.bbc.com/weather/287286

I'll be home soon and well wrapped up for anything under 25.

LizzieJones

Jude13 wrote: »

46 degrees here but feels allot hotter due to the humidity. Jogging has been put off for early morning / evening when it cools down to a nice 30.

http://www.bbc.com/weather/287286

I'll be home soon and well wrapped up for anything under 25.

I bet you will be! 42 to 44 is about the highest I have seen it in my area. Of course it feels higher with the humidity factored in. Generally that only happens here off and on from July to September but when it gets that hot it just sucks the life out of you.

Better bring a warm parka when you get back home.

murpho999

Lyaiera wrote: »

It was that warm. It was averaging 26c in my cycle on the sun. This same thing comes up every time we have this thread. All the met eireann and weather reports are taken from thermometers that are in a box, so they're in the shade. And the boxes have airholes, so they get a breeze if there is one. If you're sitting in the sun it's going to be a lot warmer.

Of course it's going to be warmer sitting in the sun.

All temperatures around the world are measured in the shade.

Today is forecast for 19-21 degrees in Dublin, that is very pleasant but seriously it's by no means warm or uncomfortable.

Its certainly hot these days, its just about the right temp during the day(don't know how people enjoy living in places where its 10 degrees hotter or more all the time).

But I really wish it got cold at night, I haven't slept as well as I would like for the last while due to the heat.

OneEightSeven

Lyaiera wrote: »

It was that warm. It was averaging 26c in my cycle on the sun. This same thing comes up every time we have this thread. All the met eireann and weather reports are taken from thermometers that are in a box, so they're in the shade. And the boxes have airholes, so they get a breeze if there is one. If you're sitting in the sun it's going to be a lot warmer.

Those boxes are the only way the accurately measure the air temperature. You do realise weather forecast are given in air temperature, right?

My car said 26*C the other day and it because my driveway absorbs the Sun's heat and then radiates it back out, thus, making the air above my driveway warmer.

If we covered the entire country in black tarmac, we would get seriously high temperatures compared to other countries.

Also, the breeze doesn't affect the thermometers. Only lifeforms feel the cooling effect of the wind. Look up wind chill on Google.

titan18

Just a puddle of sweat atm. It's disgusting. I want cold weather again

bnt

Warm about covers it. Hot was what I felt in Dubai. First night I was there, we went to an "Irish pub" (don't ask), and when we came out, the wind was blowing from the general direction of Riyadh. The car thermometer read 43°C ... at midnight. :cool:

ShiftStorm

This song is about exactly this. How the Irish complain about the weather, then it gets hot and everyone complains again, and then are secretly relieved when it goes back to the usual pishy weather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37M3ylDALSg

anything over 12 degrees and I'm dying

i prefer the cold SERIOUSLY

Reiketsu

Went for a walk there and the sweat was lashing off me, humid today. Gonna lie here all day now and allow this fan to constantly blow air on me.

BeerWolf

Yeeeesh, people complaining about a mere 20°C - when I was living in Malaysia, it averaged at 35°C there <_<;

mad muffin

Yeah. Imagine living on the equator where the mean temperature is 30° day and night all year round, with humidity always around 100% :eek:

Barely There

Irish people love complaining about 'the heat.'.

In my local gym there are people who come in to use the sauna, they sit down and immediately start complaining "ah jaysus, it's too hot in here for me, it's shockin' hot".

It's a sauna for feck sake, it's supposed to be hot. I wouldn't mind, but most of the saunas in Ireland are way too cool, and it's because of the 'it's too hot in here' brigade. But that's a rant for another thread.

Ush1

Nothing like a weather c*ck measuring contest thread.

Plazaman

I think Irish people all all farmers at heart when it comes to the weather no matter where we live.

Good Weather : "Jaysus, you'd miss the drop of rain, this heat is wrecking the crops"

Bad Weather : "Jaysus will this rain ever end, it's wrecking the crops"

titan18

mad muffin wrote: »

Yeah. Imagine living on the equator where the mean temperature is 30° day and night all year round, with humidity always around 100% :eek:

Our bodies would be used to it by then. I'm a cold weather person, I walk around in t-shirts in December and January and don't even feel it. In warm weather, even if relatively, our current weather isn't warm in comparison to other countries, I'm a mess. Constant sweating and headaches, and not functioning as well as I would normally.

Mrs Garth Brooks

I went to Australia last year on a one year working holiday visa. I only managed 8 weeks. Something people dont tell you is that the breeze over there is a hot breeze. Like a hair dryer in your face. And it wasn't even the start of summer yet! The heat over there made me sick and it wasn't worth it.

When I landed back here it was -1 and it was lovely. Wore a t-shirt.

Irish summers are grand. Its just a week and you get over it again.

Irish Guitarist

If I can't spend a few hours outside without my skin getting burned and getting a headache then it's too hot.

SuperGrover

Pffft. It's actually freezing. I used to live on the sun and it was 10 million degrees. At night. I'm wearing 12 jumpers today.

MagicIRL

Jimmyie will become a boards legend long before his account spirals out of control and is banned from existance. Post on, brother-man, post on.

pickarooney

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I think it's an Irish thing to complain about those who are complaining about those who are complaining about those who are complaining about the weather.




All I care about is that it holds up so I don't have to dig out my wintery clothes again (which I've packed away) when I visit next month! Hold up, Irish weather. Hold up!

Crap, I just put my Winter stuff away last week, expecting not to see them until December after I've moved house but now that I think of it, I'll need most of it for Ireland in July