Summer 2017 - General Discussion

km79

Couple of heavy showers last while

George Sunsnow

Lashing here in Arklow this past few hours,the first continuous decent rainfall here since the June bank holiday
Very welcome down this way
Temp is 15c

highdef

George Sunsnow wrote: »

Lashing here in Arklow this past few hours,the first continuous decent rainfall here since the June bank holiday
Very welcome down this way
Temp is 15c

Looks like torrential rain over the Wicklow mountains at the moment.... Including Arklow. Could be some flooding in many parts of Wicklow this evening.

km79

George Sunsnow wrote: »

Lashing here in Arklow this past few hours,the first continuous decent rainfall here since the June bank holiday
Very welcome down this way
Temp is 15c

And ye are welcome to it

Dr Crayfish

George Sunsnow wrote: »

Lashing here in Arklow this past few hours,the first continuous decent rainfall here since the June bank holiday
Very welcome down this way
Temp is 15c

I think you may live in a different happy perfect weather island to the rest of us

sryanbruen

km79 wrote: »

And ye are welcome to it

Yet I'm cloudy and dry

George Sunsnow

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

I think you may live in a different happy perfect weather island to the rest of us

It's not that,I just want an end to the drought down this way
If it could rain at night (preferably between 2 and 5am but not during calving) and sunny by day ,Shur it be heaven , is that a whole lot to ask

km79

Heavy shower

Calibos

highdef wrote: »

Looks like torrential rain over the Wicklow mountains at the moment.... Including Arklow. Could be some flooding in many parts of Wicklow this evening.

...and acting like a Sponge for Costa Del Bray. If you went purely by RainToday you'd have thought it was heavy rain in Bray all day since 1pm till now.

Light drizzle for about 5 minutes around 1:30pm is the only precipitation I've seen all day.

DOCARCH

Cold front clearing Dublin (DunLaoghaire) about an hour ago....

George Sunsnow

Still raining
Quite heavy at the moment near Arklow
I could see a clearance to the NW at one stage but the pivot and slide of the lingering rain belt said no

Water pools everywhere,great to see
Land here was very thirsty:)

km79

Bright start in the west
But I'm heading east
Brace yourself Dublin Winter is coming


I'm still optimistic that the settled spell will come and stay from midweek on
This can't go on forever

km79

km79 wrote: »

Bright start in the west
But I'm heading east
Brace yourself Dublin Winter is coming


I'm still optimistic that the settled spell will come and stay from midweek on
This can't go on forever

LOL stepped off Luas and was met with a shower immediately
I'm cursed this summer

Gonzo

km79 wrote: »

LOL stepped off Luas and was met with a shower immediately
I'm cursed this summer

The weather even in the east has been crap for almost a month now.

Rock Lesnar

Cool, Dry and Sunny in north meath today, but has clouded over a fair bit in the last hour

Meteorite58

In general a lovely day in Kerry. A few heavy local showers about as can be seen in the pic below in Killarney about 14.00.

Got up to 18.4C here near Tralee and currently 17.1C in sunshine

School Socks

What summers past would be the most similar to this one ? 2010 maybe ? Not a good summer but not bad either.

sryanbruen

School Socks wrote: »

What summers past would be the most similar to this one ? 2010 maybe ? Not a good summer but not bad either.

2010 was an excellent Summer (in Ireland at least), as I always say it's super underrated. 2010 was much better than this rubbish here in 2017 - Ok, it's not really rubbish but it's certainly not like 2010.

2010 had a spectacular June that was very warm, dry and sunny. Only July was bad as it was wet and dull but warm. August was rather cool but was very sunny and dry.

I think 2017 is a unique Summer and I have not found any Summer similar to it - yet. 1957 had a very sunny, dry and warm June (one of the sunniest on record) but June 2017 wasn't exactly sunny and dry.

Compare the IMTs (Irish Mean Temperatures) of June and July for both 2010 & 2017 along with their anomalies from the 1981-2010 average

2017
June: 14.7 (+1.0c)
July: 14.9 (-0.5c)
June/July: 14.8 (+0.2c)

2010
June: 15.2 (+1.5c)
July: 15.8 (+0.4c)
June/July: 15.5 (+0.9c)

Birdnuts

August has been mainly rubbish in this country since the turn of the millennium so not really surprised that past week has felt rather autumnal. Probably get a good week or 2 in September so all is not lost.

Gonzo

this week could be the best week in August with at least 1 or 2 dry days, week 3 is meant to be cool and unsettled again. perhaps week 4 may offer something more hopeful if we're lucky. We can always count on early September for some warm sunny days as well.

sryanbruen

Today was glorious. Lots of sunshine here until this evening when I had a heavy shower along with a double rainbow.

Meteorite58

Very heavy rain shower here near Tralee now, I hope the mortar was set in my wall :mad:

km79

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Very heavy rain shower here near Tralee now, I hope the mortar was set in my wall :mad:

I'm saying nothing !

JCX BXC

No rain whatsoever since I woke this morning here in West Clare!

Meteorite58

That's some predicted low temperature for tomorrow compared to Weds. ( ARPEEGE is even lower )

Meteorite58

Going to get a lot of rain from that incoming cloud here in the SW and S during the day. 6.2mm here in Tralee since midnight so far.

Rikand

Some great looking clouds out there

Oscar Bravo

Brightening up nicely here in Castlebar with clearer skies moving in from the north west.

km79

Blessed so far this morning in east Galway as the showers rotate around us for once .
Be mighty if it could stay dry for a few days but it's beginning to cloud over ominously

JCX BXC

Massive difference between MT and ME for the next 3 days, namely in terms of temperatures. Give Thursday as an example, MT saying 20-23c, ME saying 15-19c.