Summer 2023 - General Discussion

snowstreams

It’s a lovely 20c day here in Athenry today with some good dying! I’m drying out the patio furniture & debating whether I should put it away for a few weeks after looking at the charts.

i remember we had some good spells in August 2020 so hopefully we can get at least that this August.

Banarol

You couldn’t get any more boring and bland weather for July. While today is milder than yesterday and drier it’s still a bang average day for July and that’s being kind. It’s cloudy and windy and 18 degrees

Gonzo

Today and tomorrow has the potential to be the warmest days of July if we don't break out of the cool and unsettled pattern by the end of July. We will be back to much fresher conditions early next week. This summer is fast descending into a trainwreck after 2 half decent weeks in June, it's now up to August to save us from classifying summer 2023 as a bad summer.

kingshankly

Watching the cricket from Leeds here mad how their weather is so much nicer than ours

giveitholly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120817540#Comment_120817540

Ah come on,it was a lot better than 2 half decent weeks in June

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120817756#Comment_120817756

Some people have short memories and are only dying to declare the summer a write off. This thread is the same every year!

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120817756#Comment_120817756

It's was one of the nicest Junes I have ever experienced in almost half a century.

That 5 week period of sun around end May and most of June makes it easier to cope with this bad weather.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120817811#Comment_120817811

We've never had a June like it in Cork in my living memory. The rain we got yesterday was the first real frontal rain we've had in ages, though it was awful.

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120817822#Comment_120817822

I believe Galway had the sunniest week in June since 1995. I can't recall which week it was because they were all glorious.

Banarol

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120817756#Comment_120817756

I think it was the final week in May and the first 3 weeks in June for the majority of the country although the west enjoyed the best of it. The east was cooler for much of this period. The change came in around the 23rd June and it has been poor enough since

giveitholly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120817837#Comment_120817837

Yeah that is roughly the time line of the dry spell alright,a lot better than 2 half decent weeks

Elmer Blooker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120817804#Comment_120817804

EVERY winter can be (correctly) written off by mid Jan so why not write off summer in July?

Our climate is dominated by patterns that we get locked into and can and usually do last for weeks.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120817924#Comment_120817924

Because it's July 7. The weather only turned this day last year and we had an amazing second half to the summer.

I get we are locked in a pattern but if I had a euro for every time I heard someone make grand declarations about the long-term weather forecast only to be made a fool of...

Either way, let's hope it picks up, both in general and for the people who enjoy reading this thread without it turning into misery porn.

Ozvaldo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120817822#Comment_120817822

Im in Cork myself are you forgetting that cold breeze that ran through every day in June -you go the beach in June in Cork and you were blown away,

Storm 10

Unreal in Galway strong wind which feels very warm an a temp of 23 degrees so different from yesterdays muck.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120818019#Comment_120818019

There were easterlies at the start of the month that took the edge off the temperatures and were probably felt a bit more at the beach, but it was not windier than usual.

I was at the beach about five times with the kids in June.

Otherwise, the mean air temperature for the month was 2.5 degrees above the long term average at Cork Airport.

Rainfall ran at about 62 per cent.

Soil temperatures about four degrees up on LTA.

Record sea temperatures off the coast.

Sunshine at 140 per cent.

This is an interesting read: https://www.met.ie/warmest-june-on-record-dry-periods-and-intense-thunderstorm-activity

An amazing month of weather in Cork by every known metric.

.Donegal.

Status Yellow - Wind warning for Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Munster

Met Éireann Weather Warning

Unseasonably strong southeasterly winds overnight and for a time on Saturday morning, strongest in southern and western coastal areas and on high ground.

Possible impacts:

Damage to tents and other temporary structures 

Falling branches

Wave overtopping along parts of the south coast

Valid: 00:00 Saturday 08/07/2023 to 10:00 Saturday 08/07/2023

Issued: 15:07 Friday 07/07/2023

Status Yellow - Wind warning for Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wicklow, Connacht

Met Éireann Weather Warning

Unseasonably strong southeasterly winds on Saturday morning, strongest in coastal areas and on high ground.

Possible impacts:

Damage to tents and other temporary structures 

Falling branches

Valid: 06:00 Saturday 08/07/2023 to 12:00 Saturday 08/07/2023

.Donegal.

Malin head and Mt Dillon 22c. Donegal airport recorded 23c at 2pm and eglinton is currently 23c.

snowstreams

I was wondering where Eglinton was but I reckoned it was in the North to get a long enough land fetch to get that temp.

It’s in Derry & It used to be called Muff. They must have gotten fed up of jokes with the name!

pauldry

A damage to tents warning has been issued by Met Eireann.

Wer OK so we live in a house.

23c and sunny in the Northwest today just like forecast. Very windy though.

There's tents blowing everywhere.

.Donegal.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120818883#Comment_120818883

Different places. Muff is in Donegal and the name still applies. There’s a muff diving club there and the welcome to muff town sign is a bit of tourist attraction. They embrace it ha

esposito

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120817924#Comment_120817924

The rest of July can be written off yes.

We still have August. It would be silly to write off Summer.

Easier to write off winter in January I agree with that though.

Hooter23

It took us probably a century to get a so called record breaking june which was just 2 half weeks of sun in the mid 20s...it doesn't get any sadder than that...they get much better weather many times a year...every single year in countries much further north than we are

Robwindstorm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120817966#Comment_120817966

'misery porn', that's a new one, what's that when it's at home?.

It's been a very windy spell alright for July and early tomorrow could be very lively. The tent warning I suppose is warranted as for example there's been a Circus tent erected near me for the weekend. I have a bouncy castle sitting flat on the lawn which arrived in the wind and rain yesterday so I'm hoping it will blow up and not away for a kiddies party tomorrow.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120819079#Comment_120819079

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOJB26Dco4g

Robwindstorm

I was nearly afraid to press the link until I saw YouTube but I'm glad I did 😂. Not a bad day !

Oscar Bravo

Dodged a fair lot of rain today ,staying off the west coast

Hooter23

There is hot air as high as 30+ degrees on the charts further north than iceland even as far north as the north of greenland...so when people on here always say dont expect to have mediterrean weather on an island this far north what do they mean...if they can get a record temperature of 38 degrees in the arctic then ireland must be stuck in an ice age

KanyeSouthEast

My flowers destroyed by the wind and my hanging baskets. In July.

Kutebride

Wasn't expecting that sunshine this evening after gloomy day.

Breezy, bright and sunny; 21⁰ Meath