Summer 2018 - General Discussion

SeaBreezes

Came across this today.

A 250‐year drought catalogue for the island of Ireland (1765–2015)

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/joc.4999

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Spent the day in clogherhead. it was absolutely glorious....sympathies to those in the western provinces enduring rip roaring rain and horrible lightning storms

looksee

Just looked at the ME forecast for tomorrow and saw there was a yellow thunder storms warning. What is really fascinating though is the way the thunderstorms exactly align with the county boundaries. Amazing.

Cantona's Collars

Not a cloud in the sky here in Wexico.

igCorcaigh

Lovely day in Cork. Still 19C and sweating

How come the heat feels like so much more than the official temps!

Edit: the humidity is 75 is that a lot.?

Meteorite58

Haven't seen a good old fashioned Atlantic LP for what seems like ages.

Weds. / Thurs

ARPEGE shows most of the rain missing us, GFS shows plenty of rain and ECM shows rain later in the day ( heavy in places along the W side of the country ). ECM also showing windy conditions along Atlantic coasts.

Meteorite58

That's what happens when the weather comes from the W. Fohn in the East.

Donegal Storm

Another stunning day today, some big convection visible off to the west from afternoon on but never threatened to disrupt the sunshine

Dublin this morning



Back in Maynooth in the evening

Gonzo

Getting my thunderstorm fix hete in South East Spain, forks everywhere and very loud thunder

pauldry

temps finally at June normal after 17 days in May/June above

Max in Sligo today 17.9c

tomorrow the same but no rain until Wednesday n the grass in Sligo is gone yellow from drought in places for first Summer in 5 years

A month of little rain will make it brown n think Leinster might see this but the West will get 30mm of rain from Wednesday thru Sunday next then more dry hopefully

km79

Another evening beer outside
Cooler but still bright

Graces7

looksee wrote: »

Just looked at the ME forecast for tomorrow and saw there was a yellow thunder storms warning. What is really fascinating though is the way the thunderstorms exactly align with the county boundaries. Amazing.

Even more amazing is that they always skirt Mayo! Like the snow last winter. met.ie knows this as we are never on the list...just a vague reference to Connaught

Graces7

cloudy and cooler. Sweet night

mg1982

Im glad that humidity is gone good bit cooler here today mainly overcast but brightened up in the evening.

pad199207

The feeling and fear of “going back into normal boring weather” is beginning to set in now.

Also the fear of not getting the weather we’ve recently had ever again for the rest of the summer

Oneiric 3

13.1c but with dewpoints down on recent values, it feels pleasantly chill. Still have windows wide open in the attempt to cool down the house a bit.

SleetAndSnow

Just back from sitting in the garden. 16 degrees. Had a very light rain shower (didn’t even wet anything, way lighter then what net weather showed). Had a great night overall sitting in the garden. Love this weather! (In the garden at nearly 1am and still warm! Brilliant!)

igCorcaigh

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Just backfrom sitting in the garden. 16 degrees. Had a very light rain shower (didn’t even wet anything, way lighter then what net weather showed). Had a great night overall sitting in the garden. Love this weather! (In the garden at nearly 1am and still warm! Brilliant!)

It's the balmy evenings that I love. Wandered around town today, was a lovely atmosphere. Was like being on holiday

prinzeugen

We must have had some small amounts of rain in Dublin 6. The roofs are wet as is the grass. Its more than dew but nothing on the radar?

ZX7R

Amazing weather this morning at around half 6 .
Heavy fog not a hint of a breeze and temperature was all ready 17c ,was lovely to sit in the garden and relax

Artane2002

prinzeugen wrote: »

We must have had some small amounts of rain in Dublin 6. The roofs are wet as is the grass. Its more than dew but nothing on the radar?

It's probably from the fog, I don't think it rained.

JCX BXC

15 consecutive days of 20c plus in a row in West Clare. Doubt we'll make a 16th.

Looks like the good spell is over here. Cloudy and cool now.

km79

The west is no longer best

Mobhi1

Mostly clear and 20.2C in Glasnevin now.

Artane2002

Mobhi1 wrote: »

Mostly clear and 20.2C in Glasnevin now.

Overcast in Artane

sryanbruen

Artane2002 wrote: »

Overcast in Artane

Same at Grange.

Snowbiee21

sryanbruen wrote: »

Same at Grange.

Is the sun expected to come out ?

km79

Snowbiee21 wrote: »

Is the sun expected to come out ?

Tomorrow

Rock Lesnar

Sunny in north meath and it feels very hot

Elmer Blooker

pad199207 wrote: »

The feeling and fear of “going back into normal boring weather” is beginning to set in now.

Also the fear of not getting the weather we’ve recently had ever again for the rest of the summer

Agree. It's a long long way back from this once the rot sets in.
The trend of the Azores disappearing in summer and building strongly every winter is hard to take!