Summer 2021 General Discussion

It's reporting on the https://www.met.ie/latest-reports/observations page for me anyway. 27C for 14:00

The rain gauge is down, so for some reason the whole pictogram/graph section doesn't show, but the other data is there in the list of station reports.

I can see clouds bubbling up in the distance of the station, yesterday was the same as the temperature peaked just after lunchtime.

I checked the North. July is the only month which recorded a tropical night. If it occurred multiple times/locations or not I can't say as it only has the record for the highest minimum for each month.

20.6C 31 July 1868 Armagh (County Armagh)

8 or 9 Lightning strikes on map there up to 4pm.

Yeah, i'm tempted to drive there myself but it's just too hot to do so.

Mount Dillon still at 29, its mad how the temperature across the country just keeps stopping at 29 but i do expect that to change tomorrow or Thursday. I was chatting to someone earlier that is down in Tipperary near Nenagh and the temperature was between 30-31. Not sure how accurate it is but it does make you wonder if Met Eireann had more weather stations, 30 or higher would have already been recorded by now. To have only 25 weather stations seems ridiculous, not a single weather station between Oak Park and Moore Park, even between Gurteen and Mullingar.

There aren’t only 25 stations per se, the stations you refer to and see on met.ie outside of the historical database and WOW are called synoptic stations. They’re called synoptic stations because their observational data is used to generate synoptics or forecast charts and improve forecasting.

There are a fair few climate stations that are still manually controlled whilst some have become automatic and can be accessed via the Met WOW site (they have the label 'ACS' which stands for automatic climate station). Typically, we get access to the data from manual climate stations at least a few months later.

Currently only a pleasant 23.2°c in west Clare (with a dewpoint of 21°c mind you!), very humid, got up to 26.9°c earlier before the sea breeze kicked in.

Should be much hotter in the next 2 days as the easterly flow hinders the sea breeze from developing.

That’s quite shocking when you think about it!

Claremorris and Mount Dillon 27 degrees at 8pm. Some going!

i think one of the most striking things about this heat wave is the evening temperatures. Seeing temperatures across the country like 25-27 degrees at 8pm, it’s quite extraordinary. Even in previous hot spells you would see high day time temps but evenings might be closer to 20 degrees. Even here in Dublin 5 quite close to coast it’s 22 degrees at 9pm and this was not one of the hotter parts of the country today.

Tomorrow looks really hot

Felt warmer around 3pm than any day so far but sitting the garden at the moment and definitely a cooling breeze and less humid compared to other evenings.

On Meath- Westmeath border. Maybe a Easterly sea influence making it this far?