Summer 2020 - General Discussion

nacho libre

Donegal Storm wrote: »

Looking at the radar today is the first 'April showers' day we've had all year so far. Some heavy showers here in Donegal, horrible day but probably needed to top up water levels

Yes. At least its not endless days of misery. If the summer went on like this, where by we had a few days of rain to top up water levels, then back to fine weather, few could complain.

JCX BXC

Mostly Sunny and dry with a cool fresh breeze in West Clare.

Slashermcguirk

Only the one decent rain shower in Dublin 5 today but it didn’t last long.

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Got about 10 minutes from it here in north Kildare

Gonzo

was very sunny here for the past hour and it started to feel quite warm out of the wind, big shower has moved in from my north and we even had a fairly loud rumble of thunder and flash of lightning with it, wasn't expecting that. A fairly heavy burst of rain now but it doesn't look like it will last that long, it may be enough to start putting green back into the grass.

appledrop

Extremely blustery here now. All new leaves from trees + shrubs are flying everywhere. Its dark + raining aswell. It's like an autumn evening rather than summer. Lights are on now.12 degrees.

SleetAndSnow

Dry all day in Cork City, just missing the showers! Breezy though, have moved a few plants into more sheltered areas.

Oscar Bravo

Weather Advisory for Ireland

Unseasonably windy Friday night and for a time on Saturday. Given the time of year, there is potential for some low level impacts from wind.

Valid: 21:00 Friday 05/06/2020 to 14:00 Saturday 06/06/2020

Issued: 12:00 Friday 05/06/2020

Gonzo

still fairly showery across the country except for the south-west which is missing out on most of the showers as they are closer to high pressure. Temperatures have really lowered now and several stations are reporting afternoon values of just 8 and 9C with most other stations struggling to hit 10 to 12C. Tomorrow may actually be slightly cooler than today so I would expect several stations to remain in single digits tomorrow. A real feeling of June 2019. Thankfully the temperatures will begin to rise again from Sunday.

Slashermcguirk

We had a couple of showers in D5 today but they were so brief. No real impact on the garden

Oneiric 3

Although it has been a very sunny and very dry for the last couple of months, it also seems, anecdotally at least, that it has been breezier, windier than normal also. Even during the finest weather during April and May (and so far this month) there was always that hair tossing breeze.

nacho libre

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Although it has been a very sunny and very dry for the last couple of months, it also seems, anecdotally at least, that it has been breezier, windier than normal also. Even during the finest weather during April and May (and so far this month) there was always that hair tossing breeze.

At least you have hair to toss;) Some people don't. But seriously you are right it has been windy a lot of the time.

Thelonious Monk

Yuk, manky out now, this is the kind of weather you could have in June or July or in December or January, just horrible Irish weather.
I hope we get some more summer weather soon.

Gonzo

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Yuk, manky out now, this is the kind of weather you could have in June or July or in December or January, just horrible Irish weather.
I hope we get some more summer weather soon.

I was on a walk around lunchtime and it felt pleasantly warm away from the wind in nice spells of sunshine, then we had a thundery shower. Went outside for another walk there and the sun is shining and the cold combined with the wind would cut you in two. As you say it could easily be December. I can live with it once we start seeing an improvement from Sunday and hopefully the GFS model is correct with next week's return to mostly dry and warm weather.

Gonzo

talking about next week's improvement, we may have to wait a while longer for a definite improvement. The UKMO, GEM and now the ECM are all on board for low pressure to move from Iceland over Ireland on Wednesday and on into Thursday, leaving just the GFS to get on board. All of a sudden next week's return to warm and settled conditions is starting to look alot more flipsy. At this point I think any forecasts more than 2 to 3 days ahead are difficult to work out as forecasting is proving very complicated with the pattern we have right now.

Oscar Bravo

Beautiful full moon low in the south east now for those with clear skies

Oscar Bravo

Today max

Mount Dillon 16.6 degrees
Moore park 16.5
Sherkin 16.5
Shannon 16.4

SleetAndSnow

A few showers this evening in Cork city, mostly sun showers. Lovely bright, full moon out this evening.

igCorcaigh

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

A few showers this evening in Cork city, mostly sun showers. Lovely bright, full moon out this evening.

Was just looking at the moon from my window. It's gorgeous.

NIMAN

It is rough this morning in north Donegal.

Sustained strong winds, and has been since about 8pm last night.

In fact I'd say it's rougher than a few of the yellow warnings we have been issued with.

SleetAndSnow

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Dry all day in Cork City, just missing the showers! Breezy though, have moved a few plants into more sheltered areas.

We didn't do too well. One decent shower at 8.30pm but still just about enough to keep the dust down. Could really do with some decent showers today for the garden and to help my newly laid lawn.

NIMAN

Newly laid lawn here too, not sure how yesterday's hailstones will play into its growth!

NIMAN

NIMAN wrote: »

Newly laid lawn here too, not sure how yesterday's hailstones will play into its growth!

Another new lawn being seeded out the front today. Was tempted to put it off until September/October but I won't have the time then. Praying for rain!!

Very blustery on East coast, v cool too. Those winds 2 weeks ago did some damage to new leaf growth, I’m hoping no further damage with these temperatures. Hail yesterday , fire lit last night !

Does anyone know what happened to Graces7 from her offshore Mayo island ? I miss her posts .

Spencer Brown

Dismal day in Cork, the wind is properly cold. Today could pass for November.

Thelonious Monk

Yeah this is the worst day in months in Dublin. Bloody cold in my house but I refuse to turn heat on so a blanket on the couch will have to do!
Tomorrow looks half decent anyway so hopefully this is the worst day for a while.

pauldry

Had 2mm of rain last night. I thought there was going to be 10mm. But there has only been 10mm in past 3 "wet" days. Grass still yellow.

Dublin is in serious trouble this month from lack of rain. As is much of the east and even parts of the West. The South isnt as bad yet but will be by July.

Clonmel1000

My god it’s cold

NIMAN

Has this years summer been and gone?

ZX7R

Dirty morning wet and windy, only 9 degrees out.
Positive thing I've just seen the sallow hatchlings in a row on the clothes line good brood this year ,I would not fancy learning to fly today.

giveitholly

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

My god it’s cold

Feels like pure winter,will be lighting the stove this evening unfortunately

HighLine

I can picture the posters on here who complained about the heat last week sitting inside looking out their windows today with a smug look on their faces.

Clonmel1000

HighLine wrote: »

I can picture the posters on here who complained about the heat last week sitting inside looking out their windows today with a smug look on their faces.

Lockdown ending and we’re back to normal service. I so enjoyed the week we had from Wednesday 27th May it was glorious but today is just ridiculous.

Oscar Bravo

A cold 9 degrees at knock at 11am. Miserable Saturday.

Gonzo

today is cold however it is still not half as bad as some of the bad days from the first half of June 2019, those days felt colder than this and it was far, far wetter. Today is a piece of cake compared to last June as only yesterday, which wasn't half bad and today are the cold days.

sryanbruen

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Although it has been a very sunny and very dry for the last couple of months, it also seems, anecdotally at least, that it has been breezier, windier than normal also. Even during the finest weather during April and May (and so far this month) there was always that hair tossing breeze.

I have to agree 100% with you. Even not considering the atrocity that was February, this has felt like the windiest year (so far) in a while. I thought 2015 was ridiculous enough at the time.

I am curious too about the actual stats for previous January to May/June periods in comparison but February might skew them somewhat given its extremity.

SleetAndSnow

Cold, strong wind in cork city this morning! Grey skies, dull. Could easily be a day in the middle of November

Gonzo

latest GFS is rolling out now and its going for a serious change and joining the GEM with an unsettled outlook, particularly for Ireland bringing the Atlantic back into play. It hasn't finished updating yet but if it verifies we can put the summer clothes away for a while. It has that low sinking from Iceland over Ireland on Wednesday and then evolves into a very unsettled pattern after that with lots and lots of rain.

nacho libre

I wonder are we now going to end up with blocking in the wrong place, which means we will be stuck under slow moving systems.

sryanbruen

Gonzo wrote: »

latest GFS is rolling out now and its going for a serious change and joining the GEM with an unsettled outlook, particularly for Ireland bringing the Atlantic back into play. It hasn't finished updating yet but if it verifies we can put the summer clothes away for a while. It has that low sinking from Iceland over Ireland on Wednesday and then evolves into a very unsettled pattern after that with lots and lots of rain.

GFS in FI is giving me 2019 nightmares all over again.

Harry Palmr

Cold and **** out there. I'm ignoring the prediction charts as they keep changing their minds. It's not going to be really settled thats clear but I'll wait to see how unsettled it really is.

Gonzo

nacho libre wrote: »

I wonder are we now going to end up with blocking in the wrong place, which means we will be stuck under slow moving systems.

I had a bad feeling yesterday when I saw the GEM and ECM bringing that low down from Iceland on Wednesday that the warm and settled scene was in trouble. GFS is still updating and unfortunately it's a stinker especially for Ireland.

I really hope the GFS is just having a temporary hiccup but I don't think it is as all other models are on the unsettled side too but the GFS is really going to town on making Ireland a wet place over the next 2 weeks. I'm sure the farmers will be delighted with this.

km79

Gonzo wrote: »

I had a bad feeling yesterday when I saw the GEM and ECM bringing that low down from Iceland on Wednesday that the warm and settled scene was in trouble. GFS is still updating and unfortunately it's a stinker especially for Ireland.

I really hope the GFS is just having a temporary hiccup but I don't think it is as all other models are on the unsettled side too but the GFS is really going to town on making Ireland a wet place over the next 2 weeks. I'm sure the farmers will be delighted with this.

For a week
Then it will be “the land is saturated “

Every year. Be careful what ye wish for .
It’s bloody summer and people were wishing the good weather away on the first of June .

Gonzo

km79 wrote: »

For a week
Then it will be “the land is saturated “

Every year. Be careful what ye wish for .
It’s bloody summer and people were wishing the good weather away on the first of June .

Once the GFS has completed it's run and I take a look at all the members we will get a better idea. Currently it is showing a low pressure that just continues to spiral and pivot over Ireland for over a week, if this happened the 2nd and 3rd week of June would be a complete write off. Of course the model could switch back to a dryer and warmer scene by this evening. Over the past 4 days the models have been changing like crazy and not all agreeing each other, we have a very complicated pattern at the moment.

nacho libre

Gonzo wrote: »

I had a bad feeling yesterday when I saw the GEM and ECM bringing that low down from Iceland on Wednesday that the warm and settled scene was in trouble. GFS is still updating and unfortunately it's a stinker especially for Ireland.

I really hope the GFS is just having a temporary hiccup but I don't think it is as all other models are on the unsettled side too but the GFS is really going to town on making Ireland a wet place over the next 2 weeks. I'm sure the farmers will be delighted with this.

Just when i was starting to think M.T. Craniums June outlook would be wide of the mark, more fool me. It is starting to look like a repeat June 2019, unfortunately:(

DellyBelly

NIMAN wrote: »

Has this years summer been and gone?

Could well be but I think we can all agree twas a great one. So many night out in the garden having a bbq. Fantastic

Gaoth Laidir

Just messing with vector maps in Excel and produced this map of temperatures at 11 am. Very uniform across the country.

Thelonious Monk

So June looks to be a write off, hopefully we get something in July, given August is a disaster every year there's not much time left. It's such a short window we get during our "summer". It's amazing how much this crap weather now affects my life compared to the bliss last weekend. I need to get a job where I can work from home in Spain, endless sun and no farmers moaning about rain as they know how to manage water there.

ninebeanrows

That little shortwave that cuts down over Ireland and the UK around +96hrs really could send us down a bad patch!

The GFS 6z has a low spinning in perpetuity to the west of Ireland throwing up rain band after rain band!

Let's hope for a quick flip back otherwise it could be a long June.

Slashermcguirk

Crikey relax people, had pretty much zero rain since March! Even this week here in D5 there has been feck all rain.

We were bound to get a week or two of bad weather. It’s 11 degrees and lashing rain in London today according to a friend, apparently been a miserable week over there. We were bound to get a blip. Summer is 6 days old, cool the jets

Thelonious Monk

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Crikey relax people, had pretty much zero rain since March! Even this week here in D5 there has been feck all rain.

We were bound to get a week or two of bad weather. It’s 11 degrees and lashing rain in London today according to a friend, apparently been a miserable week over there. We were bound to get a blip. Summer is 6 days old, cool the jets

It's not just the rain, it's the greyness and wind too! London may be miserable but they are guaranteed more summer weather, we ain't. So allow us to moan.