Summer 2021 General Discussion

Yes 30 degrees is a tough one to hit, it made 2018 very impressive because Shannon met station hit 32. I cant remember how many locations hit 30 in Ireland that day but I just remember the 32 at shannon.

Another picture perfect morning here in Dublin. This is moving up towards an 8.5/10 summer overall in Dublin factoring in the very pleasant and dry June, one poor enough week in earlier July and now this superb run of weather.

Not the best photo as zoomed in shot but some isolated altocumulus virga (looking SW) earlier this morning.

Oak park already 24 at 10am, good number of locations like mount Dillon, Phoenix park and Gurteen at 22

*double post*

Less than 20km from Oak Park (reading 24.3c) and can see why its the hottest station right now - getting hot as balls here already. Local WOWs here in S.Kildare are already through the roof at 26.8 & 27.7c.

Barrow valley for the official 30 degrees today at Oak Park?

Oak park could hit 30 today, already at 25 at 11am. Athenry and mount Dillon also at 24, casement and Phoenix park 23. Shannon at 22 but it tends to pick up continuously throughout the day

The 31.2c in NI yesterday is legit I think. I live in southern Co.Antrim (Ballinderry) and yesterday truely was a roaster. It was at least 29c quite widely across the SE and my nearby weather station that is well set up read a max of 29.9c and Ballywatticock / Killowen are a further 30 miles east of me. It felt truely continental yesterday and everyone commented on the uniquely hot feeling of the day.

Ballywatticock and Killowen are both in the SE quadrant of the provence. Killowen was reading the same temp as the previous record 30.8c yesterday afternoon before being beaten by Ballywatticock. So more than one met office recording station recorded 30c+ yesterday in the E / SE.

There was very little wind yesterday and it was coming from the NW, so it had a maximum land track across the provence to those locations. The fact they are located in coastal areas didn't matter yesterday I think, as the wind would have been offshore rather than onshore.

There is a write up about the conditions here :-

Hottest NI day ever as temperatures soar above 30C - BBC News

Personally (and I know this will not be the case for everyone on the island as we've all had regional variances) I think this summer has over delivered so far compared with the very cold spring and climate models predicting a rather unsettled and cool summer. That has certainly not been the case here in the eastern side of NI.

I took a look back through temp records for June and July and there has been 13 days in July with a max above 20c (what I consider a decent / good summer's day) and five above 23c (three above 25c) so far. It has only rained on two occasions this month. And not much either.

And of course we still have a hot week to come which will make July a pretty good summer month around here in my books.

In June we had 15 days above 20c with three of those days above 23c (23 to 24c) and it rained on just six occasions.

The grass around here is burnt to a crisp in lots of places. So definitely a far better summer around here than I feared we would have this year.

I admit I was a bit harsh on June at times, it was a good month. I just didn't find it to be the beauty of a month that many Dubliners shared the opinion of because sunshine was a little above average in which I was spoiled by June 2018 for and it's what I prioritise most when rating a month followed by temperature then rainfall. Thankful we got a great second half of June though especially compared to southeast England and even the Low Countries where it was dreadful. Think it was Brussels where they had a record breaking dull 10-day period from 21-30 June with only 9 hrs of sunshine throughout. The first 2 weeks of July or at least week and a half were poor to very poor but did have some ok days scattered in that seemed nicer than any day same time last year. Then this spell arrived and blew me away better than I could have imagined.

As of this point, it's definitely a better than 'normal' Irish summer in Dublin with lots of usable weather and many fine days. No doubt about that. Can't wait for the usual Autumngust deterioration.

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Stonker 😂 such an English saying

ME now mentioning 30C in their forecast for this afternoon. I wonder which station(s) will nab it?

Would you believe I was at that very concert myself and yes it was an unreal hot summers evening in Dublin. I felt like I had flown to Barcelona for the evening. Great gig and atmosphere!

Oak park 28 degrees at 2pm