SUMMER WEATHER 2015 -GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD

Lumi

This sums up Summer 2015 in Galway perfectly :pac:

"Dirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
From January up to May,
The rain it raineth every day;
From May again until July,
There's not a dry cloud in the sky;
All the rest hath thirty-one
Without a blessed ray of sun;
And if any of them had two-and-thirty,
They'd be just as wet and dirty."

James Craven

ComfortKid

Lumi wrote:

"Dirty days hath September, April, June, and November; From January up to May, The rain it raineth every day; From May again until July, There's not a dry cloud in the sky; All the rest hath thirty-one Without a blessed ray of sun; And if any of them had two-and-thirty, They'd be just as wet and dirty."

Haha very good!

Elmer Blooker

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

The stats suggest differently. August '08 was wet everywhere, not just the east. For example, 192.4 mm was recorded at D.A (the wettest of the Dub stations, while a whopping 240.2 mm was recorded in Galway city. It is a bit of a statistical quirk that the summers of 07/08 are seen to be the wettest in the east, because this is based on percentage values rather than actual values. Here locally for example, summer 07 was every bit as wet as it was in the east.

Yes that summer was no 1976 or '95 but Aug '08 saw 123mm at Malin Head which is about 3 inches less than Dublin A. - quite an unusual difference at any time of year!

Schadenfreudia

Gonzo wrote: »

It's alot cooler than you think. Temps generally 14-16C across the country but Pheonix Park is reporting 19C.

Yep, max 19.1C here despite that sun - the westerly breeze takes the edge off things; dead calm now. I can understand why a sea-breeze kicks in during the day and dies off in the evening but I'm puzzled - why does this westerly do the same thing nearly 300km from the downwind coast?

mg1982

Mild about 16 and dry here all day. The sun appeared for all of 60 seconds this morning but apart from that grey grey grey.

Schadenfreudia

mg1982 wrote: »

Mild about 16 and dry here all day. The sun appeared for all of 60 seconds this morning but apart from that grey grey grey.

Where are you?

mg1982

Schadenfreudia wrote: »

Where are you?

Sligo. I shoudnt complain really, we got two dry days in a row. It just be nice to see the sun occasionaly.

WheatenBriar

Schadenfreudia wrote: »

Yep, max 19.1C here despite that sun - the westerly breeze takes the edge off things; dead calm now. I can understand why a sea-breeze kicks in during the day and dies off in the evening but I'm puzzled - why does this westerly do the same thing nearly 300km from the downwind coast?

Well today pressure is rising, killing off that flow

Harry Palmr

Interesting bit on the 9.30 weather from Evelyn Cusack noting the Nth Atlantic being cooler than typical this summer.

Pretty fast

When the gulf stream gets switched off we'll know all about the cold then. We need to dam off the Labrador Sea.

Schadenfreudia

Pretty fast wrote: »

When the gulf stream gets switched off we'll know all about the cold then. We need to dam off the Labrador Sea.

Dunno - if it produces reliable summers like this one in Dublin we can't really complain

Let's just hope for colder winters.

Pretty fast

You blew your chance.

mg1982

Has it been a good summer in Dublin though. I hear a lot of dubs complaining about the summer they had too.

ComfortKid

Schadenfreudia wrote:

Dunno - if it produces reliable summers like this one in Dublin we can't really complain

F*** off!!! :-(

Schadenfreudia

ComfortKid wrote: »

F*** off!!! :-(

Been better than average summer here in Dublin; cooler than average - but dryer and sunnier.

Less of the bad language please

ComfortKid

Can any of ye weather experts explain this to me?

Almost every single night this summer,and I mean nearly every night, there is a clear sky, great views of the stars, but as soon as the sun is up and temps rise, around 7 or 8 am the clouds roll in. Is there a scientific reason for this or just coincidence?

ComfortKid

Schadenfreudia wrote:

Been better than average summer here in Dublin; cooler than average - but dryer and sunnier.

Oh i know! I cancelled my trip to spain and booked a villa in arklow for the weekend ;-)

I'd take a cool,dry consistent summer over one with a "heatwave" for 2 weeks any year.

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Alexis Sanchez

ComfortKid wrote: »

Can any of ye weather experts explain this to me?

Almost every single night this summer,and I mean nearly every night, there is a clear sky, great views of the stars, but as soon as the sun is up and temps rise, around 7 or 8 am the clouds roll in. Is there a scientific reason for this or just coincidence?

As the Sun gets stronger during the morning, it is evaporating the moisture on the ground and the vapour condensates as it hits the cooler air. Clouds can only form when the air pressure is low. When there's a high pressure over the country, the air is descending which prevents clouds bubbling up, which gives you sunny weather.

During the Winter, the Sun is so weak, no moisture evaporates, so even if the air pressure is low, you get clear days.




Another thing, over north Africa and Arabia, the air pressure is usually low all year round but because it's a desert, there's is no moisture to evaporate, so days are usually cloud free:

maquiladora

Crystal clear blue sky and blazing sunshine. Beautiful summer morning here.

Clonmel1000

maquiladora wrote: »

Crystal clear blue sky and blazing sunshine. Beautiful summer morning here.

Likewise here but not summer its quite nippy out temp just below 7 degrees.

Schadenfreudia

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Likewise here but not summer its quite nippy out temp just below 7 degrees.

And ditto here but it's a very pleasant 14 degrees and no breeze (yet anyway) - so it must be, I guess, about 20C in Arklow?

fryup

we just might have a nice day today, fingers crossed

WheatenBriar

Schadenfreudia wrote: »

And ditto here but it's a very pleasant 14 degrees and no breeze (yet anyway) - so it must be, I guess, about 20C in Arklow?

16.2 actually...

Schadenfreudia

WheatenBriar wrote: »

16.2 actually...

So it's woolly jumpers for you today?

WheatenBriar

Schadenfreudia wrote: »

So it's woolly jumpers for you today?

Shorts today because I fell yesterday and have a very sore knee

Elmer Blooker

mg1982 wrote: »

Has it been a good summer in Dublin though. I hear a lot of dubs complaining about the summer they had too.

Average, mediocre, not a good one but nowhere near as bad as 2007-12. This summer has been dry though, June extremely dry, July average rainfall and August, as we approach mid month, only 9mm in my backyard.
The nights have been unusually chilly as they have been all over the country.
It hasn't been particularly sunny, sunny mornings then clouding over and becoming sunny again in the evening has been a recurring theme.
When I posted this 20 mins ago it was cloudless, now a lot of cloud appearing and sun gone in.

Schadenfreudia

WheatenBriar wrote: »

Shorts today because I fell yesterday and have a very sore knee

Those damn voodoo dolls....

It hasn't been particularly sunny, sunny mornings then clouding over and becoming sunny again in the evening has been a recurring theme.

Yep - noticed that.

Birdnuts

Spent last night in Blessington and by god it was a cold one. Felt more like mid October than August. Nice morning though

WheatenBriar

I scored a try though

moeblogs

Splitting the stones in Waterford City.. Mid 20's..No Breeze..