Rare warm and dry August week ahead

Danno

A maximum temperature of 26.6c at Durrow Climate Station (Manual) today.

pad199207

Much warmer here today than I expected. 26.9° the high.

highdef

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119451056#Comment_119451056

Keep windows closed (and curtains drawn) during the day, you surely mean? If the morning starts with it at 22/23° indoors, the last thing you want to do is to open the windows and allow air with a higher temperature free reign to gain access to the interior of your house.

If the external air temperature is several degrees higher than the interior the temperatures of your house, you want to keep that outside air outside and have as little sunlight into your house as possible.

igCorcaigh

I keep my windows open but curtains closed, coz flies.

I live in a little apartment heat trap. Working from home. Icy water helps.

Gonzo

I keep my windows open during the warm weather just to warm up the house. From October to June the house is freezing.

highdef

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119451185#Comment_119451185

I'd forgotten about that! My main sitting room in Longford only got to 20°....... Immense thermal mass of the walls ensures it never gets too hot.

Danno

Friday and Saturday on the APERGE iso zoom setting. Toasty!

Cumhachtach

Be funny if this heatwave broke 33.3c!

Given 12/13 August is relatively late in the summer, you've lost 2 hours daylight, an hour either side of the day. Of course tapping into continental air and getting prolonged sunshine makes anything possible.

On 18 July that Spanish plume, with cloud and pressure around 1013hpa meant we didn't get the sunshine we needed, despite day length.

Elmer Blooker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119442170#Comment_119442170

29.8c was recorded at Valentia on Aug 24th 1955, can we call that a 30 to the nearest whole degree?

PowerToWait

Nvm

Meteorite58

Certainly not for one minute taking from all that people love about the warm spell of weather coming up but for the Thunderstorm enthusiasts Sunday according to the ECM showing potential for storms breaking out in the afternoon after a very warm day getting into the high 20's and Dp's getting into the high teens. Will be very interesting watching the weather fronts approach from the Atlantic with potentially active convergence zones and a very high Theta W reading and approaching upper trough, big initial MUCAPE readings with a lot of instability potential, perhaps elevated storms initially . Goes on to show thunderstorm potential overnight Sunday and into Monday. A good chance Ireland will have the thunderstorms first on Sunday, will be back from the UK 😀

Worth keeping an eye on as details becoming a bit more clear. Just see Met Eireann mentioning 'Saturday and Sunday: Largely dry with good spells of sunshine and mostly light breezes over the weekend though there is a chance of thundery showers at times'. 

Little snowy old me

Thats a great temperature for so late in the summer. Thanks.

Today is what I would call a perfect summer's day. Beautifully warm in the shelter of 1km inland but refreshlingly pleasant right on the coast due to a light breeze. Sea and sky the same blue colour. The evening is stunning. If only it could be like this every summer.

JanuarySnowstor

The difference here this evening is notable, very tropical!

For me the next few days are going to be record breaking compared to last heatwave which was gone in a blink..

- Sustained heat for 5/6 days

- Record breaking for the South with temps breaking 30C

- Much higher humidity which will make 30C ovenlike (remember the last heat event had very low humidity)

- Seatemps at record highs right now meaning sea breezes will be minimal.

Regarding a thundery breakdown it looks very hit and miss but with all this heat around you would imagine we are overdue a decent storm!

NIMAN

This is the type of weather I love.

But it's nice in short doses. Just looking at Sky News and the reports from SE England and France, and you wouldn't swap places with those folk. France are getting it super tight, and I suppose we are kinda lucky we live in a country that will never have serious drought conditions. Some places in France havent had rain since April!

Perhaps in the future we will be damn glad to have our climate.

Danno

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119451664#Comment_119451664

- Much higher humidity which will make 30C ovenlike (remember the last heat event had very low humidity)

IIRC it was only the Dublin region that saw humidity around 30%~40% whereas much of the country was in the high 40%s and up to 60%.

My own records today versus July 18th...

Granted, these are AWS values so, subtle differences between it and the manual thermometers.

NSAman

Last Saturday the rain was horrendous. Monday quite similar. The last few days in the south west have been sunny but cool. Today was a beach day. Warm sunny and just beautiful. In around 21C but in the sun it was hot.

first thing on the news: yellow alert for temperature and of course they wheeled out water shortages.

I just hope this warm weather continues. Best vacation weather I have had at home in years!

Oscar Bravo

Todays Max

JanuarySnowstor

Surprised that Gerry didn't mention on the evening broadcast that we topped 27C today. It doesn't happen that often. I guess he knows it will be beaten tomorrow, most likely in the South again

leahyl

Inchydoney today - just stunning weather!

pauldry

I think there's a good chance we will beat the all time August record of 31.5c

Surely tomorrow will beat the rather impressive 27.4c. I'd say weekend will touch 30c but one of 2 spots might tip 31 if its sunny enough.

RobertKK

August 1995 was a hot month with Kilkenny over 25C most days and over 30C at times.

It doesn't happen often but August is a summer month and the south east is very very dry.

200motels

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119450584#Comment_119450584

Lucky you. I wish we had that beautiful weather down here.

sryanbruen

Looks like the latest models are prolonging the warm weather into next week now. Turning less anticyclonic and more unstable but the warm airmass sits over the country up until Thursday 18th on both the ECM and GFS 0z. No significant cool down on Monday, speaking of which, quite an interesting setup for that day... I'll leave that to the convection experts to discuss though as convection is far from my expertise!

This August is turning out to be one for the books.

fits

Came downstairs this morning at 5:30 and the house was 24 degrees so I opened up every single window and door and got it down to 19 in no time. Will close all the windows now shortly. Blinds already down.

absolutely love this weather though and I’m not working this week yay!

fits

Ouch. I hope no one was hurt.

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FlubberJones

Could get used to this brilliant blue sky, light breeze and great temperatures....

Thankfully, Calabria, Italy beckons on the 20th so I'll be a little used to the warmth.

marathon2022

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119443076#Comment_119443076

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119444820#Comment_119444820

Going to be some event, the transition from bike to run will probably be in highs around 28°C. The competitors may just be wishing for 2019 at that stage.

Gonzo

This is what I was hoping for, the cooldown to be delayed and it looks as if next week will not be as hot as this week but temperatures in many parts of the country could remain in the low to mid twenties. Id say there is a chance of no breakdown at all and we could stay fairly warm next week if slightly volatile before a possible reload of the heat for the final week of August. By September 1st many of us will be closing the book on summer 2022 with a big smile on our faces. The dissapointing 1st and final week to June is forgiven. Even if the last 2 weeks of August end up dissapointing, summer has done it's job with a remarkable period of mostly settled and very warm weather betweeen the 5th of July and 3rd week of August.

This could possibly be the best summer since 1995. I feel both 2018 and 2021 are already beaten here in Leinster. In terms of the very south of England they are looking at the warmest and driest summer since 1976.

fryup

Scorchio part deux 😎

Marty Bird

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119452968#Comment_119452968

The hotter the better for me personally only finished an IM recently in the high 20s was lovely.