Summer 2017 - General Discussion

km79

George Sunsnow wrote: »

Aye raining since one
Running after calves that don't want to come in
Decided no need for leggings when heavens opened even more
Drowned

All the curses are working

Lovely day in East Galway
Great drying out

sryanbruen

Like I previously showed in the Irish Weather Statistics thread, this is not the first where there has been a long run of poor Augusts. It also happened in the 1920s along with 1960-1974. Before 2006, there was a run of good Augusts. I think we're overdue soon although looking at 2017 right now, it is not looking good at all. For 2018, I don't really have optimism for that either. Hopefully Mother Nature will bring us a surprise.

Meteorite58

A short piece from the Met Office about the LP almost stationary near us this weekend.

https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/890941682736390144

George Sunsnow

km79 wrote: »

Lovely day in East Galway
Great drying out

Ah I'm not complaining,we desperately needed that rain and need more
Sun came out at 5 and curiously it was sunny up until about 1230 despite being able to see the rain to the south around Gorey for a good hour or two before it came to Arklow,only 9 miles north

Elmer Blooker

A changeable weekend of weather, but why?

Why the jet stream is so far south when the Arctic is at its warmest and why the Azores high is at its always at its strongest and much further north when the Arctic is at its coldest is what I would like to know!
I give up!

pauldry

This is why the earths climate is the most fascinating interesting unpredictable thing and every time you think its getting predictable it changes.

August looks poor today but who knows a deep low could pull all the poor weather away and drag up the azores high for a week anyways.

sryanbruen

pauldry wrote: »

This is why the earths climate is the most fascinating interesting unpredictable thing and every time you think its getting predictable it changes.

August looks poor today but who knows a deep low could pull all the poor weather away and drag up the azores high for a week anyways.

Indeed Pauldry, that's what happened with September 2014. Ex-hurricane Cristobal on 31 August helped the high pressure build over us for September.

George Sunsnow

Absolutely gorgeous warm day here near Arklow
More rain needed
Those fields in the photo had gone like an American yellow prairie from sun burn
But thankfully recent rain this week is returning a bit of green

km79

Decent day in east Galway ............if it was late autum
Cool and showery

LEIN

George Sunsnow wrote: »

Absolutely gorgeous warm day here near Arklow
More rain needed
Those fields in the photo had gone like an American yellow prairie from sun burn
But thankfully recent rain this week is returning a bit of green

A similar day here up the road.
Loads of garden work done.

Clonmel1000

km79 wrote: »

Decent day in east Galway ............if it was late autum
Cool and showery

Similar day here not to many showers but dull predominantly and certainly not warm unless you think 17 degrees is balmy.

George Sunsnow

Fairly cloudy here in Arklow now but bone dry all day
Peak was a pleasant 19c
It got quite breezy from 4 as the sky clouded over
Currently 17.8c
No complaints

km79

Cold wet and miserable in east Galway
But I'm on the way to the east coast now where it will no doubt be wall to wall sunshine

pauldry

July in Sligo has been 1.3c BELOW normal
Rainfall has been 115per cent allowing for last 2 days
Its the first real above normal month since July 2016 but the 2017 deficit for NW is still large and more rain needed for Resevoirs for Winter.

I think we will now see a run of ABOVE normal rainfall to even out the distribution for the rest of 2017.

Sunshine was slightly ABOVE normal in Sligo for July

Nettle Soup

Is there any sign of settled weather in Ireland during August?
I have a week to take off and I am not sure when to time it. I will probably head to west Cork.

LEIN

Nettle Soup wrote: »

Is there any sign of settled weather in Ireland during August?
I have a week to take off and I am not sure when to time it. I will probably head to west Cork.

Nothing on the horizon yet.
Keep the faith though.

Xenji

Some very heavy downpours since midnight around Mayo and with quite a bit of rain falling already this week conditions at Croagh Patrick today could be quite treacherous as the current rain band seems to be very slow moving.

George Sunsnow

Just started raining properly in Arklow
Hope it continues
All needed here

In sea area forecast parlance,it would be called continuous slight rain

LEIN

Had a very light shower here, the ground is still dry.

George Sunsnow

Now continuous slight sun 😩

mitresize5

Torrential rain all morning here in west clare

Clonmel1000

Torrential rain here this morning. Plenty of complaints!!!

pad199207

Heavy showers have arrived here in Naas now.

Meteorite58

Missing a lot of those heavy showers here around Tralee. 3.4mm so far

Donegal Storm

Frequent heavy showers continuing in Donegal, don't have a rain guage but there's been significant rain in the past 24 hours, lots of standing water about. Thankfully I'm also off to the sun scorched deserts of the east coast this afternoon

George Sunsnow

A few right hay makers inbetween sun so far here
No complaints,All needed

LEIN

Just had a heavier short shower. Very dark skies to my west.

km79

km79 wrote: »

Cold wet and miserable in east Galway
But I'm on the way to the east coast now where it will no doubt be wall to wall sunshine

I have brought gloom to the east coast

snowstreams

I got soaked while cycling in a heavy shower there near clonskeagh. Similar weather to back in athenry I see!

km79

snowstreams wrote: »

I got soaked while cycling in a heavy shower there near clonskeagh. Similar weather to back in athenry I see!

And I got soaked walking to croke park
We are cursed I tells ya CURSED