Hot Spell - Saturday 16th July onwards

Derrylin 31.1c close to Castledergs record 31.3c last year.

highdef

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119355227#Comment_119355227

The Phoenix Park is more than 4km from the sea, even the easternmost part of it. The weather station in the park is about 10km from the sea. I mentioned in an earlier post that I left my parents home in north Dublin around lunchtime today (also just a few hundred metres from the sea) and the car thermometer was reading 22°. Half an hour later, I was getting 32° as I drove down Chesterfield Avenue.

snowgal

Yes all clouded over here near Trim, literally just as I got in the door! A few drops of rain now too, but still very warm….I’m sitting out anyway, want to enjoy the hottest day 😊

CrowdedHouse

Topped out at 31.7C at 1600

All I want now is a wrath of God Thunderstorm to wrap it up 😁

dacogawa

The highest unofficial reading I've seen from today, did anyone find anything higher?

Danno

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119355325#Comment_119355325

It does indeed go both ways. Some people are insisting that climate change is 100% human driven and base this on ~1c increases over weather records made in the 1800s, then go about selectively cutting some records from the 1800s dataset they base their assumptions on! In some extreme cases homogenise the data.

Little snowy old me

What an incredible day for Dublin and the areas that had 30°C or more. Remarkable temperatures.

Anyone else feeling a sense of disappointment that we came within 0.2 of equalling the all time national record? So close yet so far. Will we have to wait another 100 years or more to have another serious stab at it?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119355404#Comment_119355404

Yeah well I’m not going to derail this thread with CC talk, some people are obsessed with constantly bringing it up AGAIN. I know you think it’s a hoax or a green agenda or something like that. I couldn’t care less, believe what you want it’s beyond boring at this stage.

Banarol

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119355408#Comment_119355408

I thought it was 0.3 of equalling it. I think its a provisional 33.0 so it has yet to be rounded off yet? Yes we could have to wait many years to have another go at it or it could happen maybe next month, next year, next decade. Nobody knows for sure. It could be a while put it that way

Billcarson

Well that's the Record safe until next year at least most likely. That's summer over for another year roll on winter....lol

pauldry

Got a shock there. Went into house and it was 22c . Went out about 30 minutes later and it was 17c and windy and freezing. The joys of the Northwest. And the NW wind is back too. Thank God I went for a walk in the heat at lunchtime or I'd have missed it.

pad199207

Weather Station is absolutely alive with flies

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119355446#Comment_119355446

Some have bee banging on and on and on about that record in Kilkenny as some kind of proof that climate change isn't real, change the f'n record like

pauldry

So 17c in Sligo and just over an hour East its 30c. That's some difference.

Little snowy old me

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119355518#Comment_119355518

Flying ants. Millions of them emerging this evening.

Jinglejangle69

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119355525#Comment_119355525

Well in fairness…..

PokeHerKing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119355525#Comment_119355525

Hi Pot.

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119355555#Comment_119355555

Hoors, just killed a couple in the kitchen.

The only windows I now have open is balcony and patio doors with heavy curtains over them.

This is deeply unpleasant now.

Rock Lesnar

Cooling down in meath 😂, temp currently 28.6c clouded over now to, with a nice breeze

US3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119355485#Comment_119355485

The forecast for the weekend coming is sunshine and 24°. Is that not summer weather ?

Comhrá

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119355705#Comment_119355705

After today, 24c is just fine, for me anyway.

busunderer

Nice 5’ drop over the past 2 hours

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119355408#Comment_119355408

Surely you can only compare 'like with like' insofar as possible. So Kilkenny 1887 against Kilkenny 2022 might have some value, even though Kilkenny has expanded since it's still small enough. But comparing Kilkenny 1887 against Phoenix Park 2022 is a bit meaningless. They are very different local environments.

Gaoth Laidir

Plenty of interesting soundings taken in England today. This one from Nottingham, for example, showing 35.4 C at actual time of launch (17Z). Note the well-mixed boundary layer from the straight DALR temperature curve (red) and uniform dewpoint curve (blue), but that it has only mixed out to just above 900 hPa due to some cloudiness. The maximum possible temperature can be found by bringing the 850-hPa inversion down to the surface, around 39-40 C. Compare the 18Z sounding to the earlier 11Z sounding underneath and you can see how the surface heating evolved throughout the afternoon.

Here's an early morning (05Z) sounding from Larkhill (beside Stonehenge) followed by the 08Z one. The morning one shows the shallow cool surface layer, (17.4 C) which warms out during the morning to 27.8 C by 08Z and suggests a maximum possible temperature of around 40 C in the absence of cloud. However, several layers of mid-high-level cloud are visible (around 550-500 hPa and 440 hPa), so take a few degrees off that. In the end it got to 35.4 C.

Gaoth Laidir

I have to say, the models have performed miraculously on this over the past week. Haven't really budged on the synoptics all week and even had the main heat areas nailed down way out in advance. I give them a 9.5/10 on this one.

barneyrub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119355529#Comment_119355529

Dropped my teenager to camp at the beach tonight. Been planned since a few days ago due to the forecast. This morning ME had 30 degrees at 5pm and gradually drop off.

Was a very cool 17 degrees when I dropped him at 6.30.

Nice here from 12-4 but nothing of note unfortunately

Gonzo

Really enjoyed today, we got everything except the official max temperature for Ireland broken. Many places saw temperature records shattered. Today was most likely a once in per 150 year event for Meath/Dublin in terms of widespread 30s lasting throughout the day. Unlikely we will see this again in our life time.

Rikand

I have my kids baby gro egg plugged in at home. Still measuring 29 degrees outside in the shade in Athlone :D

Kalyke

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119354963#Comment_119354963

Graupel

Gaoth Laidir

Phoenix Park actually 33.1 C. (Casement 31.9, Oak Park 30.6)

Temperature records broken as Met Éireann establish new Climate Services Division - Met Éireann - The Irish Meteorological Service

Temperature records broken as Met Éireann establish new Climate Services Division

July 2022 is seeing multiple local temperature records provisionally broken at various Met Éireann weather stations nationwide. Notably, the Phoenix Park weather station has reached a number of milestones, by provisionally recording its highest temperature since data was first recorded in the early 1800s, reaching 33.1°C on Monday 18th July 2022 around 3:30pm, this is:

• The 2nd highest temperature on record for Ireland, being 0.2°C below the all-time record of 33.3°C observed at Kilkenny Castle on Sun 26 June 1887
• The highest in the 21st century – beating Elphin, Co. Roscommon’s record of 32.3°C on Wednesday 19th July 2006
• Higher than any temperature of the 20th century, the previous maximum being 32.5°C at Boora, Co. Offaly on Tuesday 29th Jun 1976
• Highest temperature ever recorded in Dublin.

12.8°C above its long-term average ( 1981-2010 LTA)

Other stations which have recorded provisional highest-ever temperatures are Dunsany, Co. Meath at 30.2° (10.7°C above LTA), Mullingar, Co. Westmeath at 30.4°C (11.2°C above LTA), Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan at 30.5°C (10.7°C above LTA) and Mount Dillon, Co. Roscommon at 31.0°C (11.3 above LTA).

To verify a new temperature record, a number of steps will now be undertaken: a committee of experts has to examine the observation, the equipment, calibration and observation practices, how the temperature corresponds to surrounding stations and its own observational record.