Summer 2021 General Discussion

Gonzo · 20-07-2021 1:50pm

The Past 4 days have been like the first 4 days of a July summer holiday in Spain after arriving from Ireland. Constant need for liquids, getting thirsty regularly. When on walks I have to take a break half way through to buy a bottle of vithit/cold ice tea to keep me hydrated for the journey home. I do this all the time in Spain but never had to do it before in Ireland till this week. My body alone is telling me that the past 4 days is properly hot and it's not just the height of the temperatures, it's the duration of high temperatures from early morning till sunset. Even in 2018 and 2013 the temperatures would start off relatively cool in the mornings and slowly rise to hit a peak around 5pm and a cooling trend into nightfall. There's a big difference with this spell with day after day of temperatures constantly in the mid twenties and high twenties for the majority of daylight hours.

Oscar Bravo · 20-07-2021 2:15pm

Newport Co.Mayo is 29 degrees at 2pm

mcburns07 · 20-07-2021 2:24pm

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This spell is about on par with the glorious spell we had mid July 2013 down here in Cork. Temperatures bottomed out at 14-15c every day for two weeks and we hit mid 20s most days and that's at Cork Airport which is typically a bit lower than what you would find in other parts of the county.

I pulled together a quick chart from Met Eireann historical data :)

Slashermcguirk · 20-07-2021 2:31pm

29 degrees at 2pm at Newport in Mayo.....crikey. Surely they could hit 30 or 31 at this rate with temps often peaking around 4 or 5pm. Amazing to look at the two locations in Donegal..........Malin Head 14 degrees and Finner is 27 degrees.

Where is the hottest temperature expected over the next couple of days, presumably Mount Dillon or Shannon Airport? I would think Oak Park might go close too.

Here in Dublin its 24 degrees and its bliss. give me mid 20s every time even when i am on holidays

Xenji · 20-07-2021 2:33pm

Gone 30.4C just outside of Castlebar, but the garden is a bit of heat trap.

Barnaboy · 20-07-2021 2:36pm

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I remember it so well. We had just finished a week holiday in France where the weather was only so so. We arrived into Ringaskiddy on the ferry and the weather was just glorious.

Only time I ever remember coming home to better weather than I left abroad.

ongarboy · 20-07-2021 2:43pm

Athenry weather station not reporting anything for the last day or so on ME website. It potentially is a favoured spot for some of highest temperatures this spell. Let's hope it gets resolved soon or we could be missing out on a potential record value over next couple of days.

HoliyMoliy · 20-07-2021 2:52pm

Unreal weather 🌞. Long May it last!

terrarev · 20-07-2021 2:52pm

I live near the Athenry station and my thermometer has it at 29oC at the moment and it's been pretty similar to the station values all week so hopefully they get it sorted whatever it is. There's a cooling breeze out though so I don't know if there's enough to break the 30 but we'll see.

beggars_bush · 20-07-2021 2:53pm

Day 5 of eating lunch outside.

Then sitting/lying in the garden

Wonderful

Rougies · 20-07-2021 2:54pm

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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.

Hammer Archer · 20-07-2021 3:25pm

Newport teasing us by dropping to 28 at 1500.

Athenry looks to be back reporting - 28 as well. Mt. Dillon now at 29 degrees. Still a bit to go to beat 2018's max temperature of 32.

Xenji · 20-07-2021 3:29pm

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

igCorcaigh · 20-07-2021 3:30pm

Met have been predicting highs of 27C for Cork these past few days, but the readings never seem to go higher than 24C. Not that I'm complaining, but that's a consistent 3C of a difference.

Hammer Archer · 20-07-2021 3:35pm

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Moore Park (near Fermoy) is up at 26 degrees at the moment and hit the same temperature yesterday.

Roches Point and Cork Airport would both be cooler given their proximity to the coast.

Gonzo · 20-07-2021 3:37pm

I get the feeling those highs by the arpege model aren't going to happen. Most places will be in the 25 to 29C range between now and Friday. Temperatures around the Dublin area will stay in the 22 to 26C range generally due to sea breezes. Shannon and Mt Dillion may still peak at 30 or 31C tomorrow.

igCorcaigh · 20-07-2021 3:39pm

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Yes, perhaps the forecasts and observations don't reflect the same areas.

sryanbruen · 20-07-2021 3:44pm

To answer the question on the highest minimum temperature record for Ireland, it is 20.9C at Derrygreenagh (Offaly) on 25 July 1989. This is what is known as a ‘tropical night’ - a day where the air minimum temperature does not fall below 20C throughout the 24-hour period from 09-09.

As you might guess, tropical nights are very infrequent in Ireland with little instances of such from historical observations. However, there have been tropical nights in July 1989 (as already mentioned which holds the record), August 2001, August 1990 and July 1983.

Tyrone212 · 20-07-2021 4:02pm

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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)

nacho libre · 20-07-2021 4:09pm

I see some showers have broken out in North Mayo as per the Met Eireann Forecast.

It looks like the temperature won't be quite as high as they suggested in their morning update.

Tyrone212 · 20-07-2021 4:13pm

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

Rougies · 20-07-2021 4:14pm

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Quite a potent little thunder cell by the look of it! Almost completely stationary, gonna be some deluge under that. Would love to be there.

nacho libre · 20-07-2021 4:16pm

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

nacho libre · 20-07-2021 4:16pm

Slashermcguirk · 20-07-2021 4:23pm

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.

External Association · 20-07-2021 4:31pm

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August 2001 is an interesting one. I just remember heavy rainfall that month when the Dublin horseshow was on. I think the show was the second week of August rather than the first. My memory fails me on any real warm weather that month.

October 2001 was the warmest on record up to then I think. Just above October 1995.

sryanbruen · 20-07-2021 4:32pm

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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.

Graces7 · 20-07-2021 5:08pm

The sheer beauty of sky and cloud and ocean. Burgeoning in the heat. So many unusual butterflies.. dragonflies. Wild flowers. And the sunrises just across the lane from my home. I never in all my long life remember such beauty.An explosion of breathtaking LIFE all around,

External Association · 20-07-2021 5:22pm

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You should write blog pieces Grace. You'd have so many topics and life experience🙂

Tyrone212 · 20-07-2021 5:34pm

Coolest day of this spell for Malin head with a high far of 14.1C so far.

JCX BXC · 20-07-2021 5:44pm

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.

External Association · 20-07-2021 5:44pm

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Often the way. During December 2015 Malin Head had a nightime low of 16.4C with a mild southerly.

esposito · 20-07-2021 5:58pm

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That’s quite shocking when you think about it!

JCX BXC · 20-07-2021 8:40pm

Seafog covering alot of the West Clare peninsula this evening, temperatures down to 20°c. Apparently seafog covered much of the north facing coast today, in places such as Kilkee

Oscar Bravo · 20-07-2021 8:46pm

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

Meteorite58 · 20-07-2021 8:58pm

Wrecked tired tonight from the lack of sleep after the last couple of nights, especially last night after a humid sticky fog descended late in the evening and just eventually dropped to 14.9C ( was 26C in the house ). Cleared for a time this morning but moved in off the sea again keeping the temperature at my site near the coast down to a max of 21.6C and currently 18.8C. Much warmer further inland in Tralee.

Sea fog showing up well on the Sat pic along the Kerry coast.

Looking much hotter for here tomorrow, I see around Galway showing up very high giving 30C for much of the afternoon on the AROME Hi Res model and only slowly cooling that evening ,crazy high temperatures overnight to follow , quite possibly not dropping below 20C especially in Connaught and along Atlantic coastal counties.

Looks blazing hot for many tomorrow, large area getting up around 29 -30C, Met Eireann might add some more counties to the Orange warning perhaps.

Slashermcguirk · 20-07-2021 9:13pm

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

Gonzo · 20-07-2021 9:28pm

Tomorrow is looking hot but I think Dublin, eastern half of Leinster and Cork will miss out on the extreme heat. About 40 miles inland from the Irish sea coast is where the really high temperatures will kick off with many midland, western and south-western areas getting close to 30C tomorrow. There is a chance Thursday could be a degree or so hotter again before the cooling trend begins from Friday.

Tomorrow

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Mimon · 20-07-2021 9:31pm

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?

fryup · 20-07-2021 9:33pm

would ya look at the thick fog down in BALLYBUNION co kerry

External Association · 20-07-2021 9:38pm

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I remember back on August 2nd 1995 23C in old Kilkenny station at 11pm. July 1989 was similar.

A little late warm spell that had warm temps until midnight was 31 August 1999- 4th September 1999. Unusual enough as the 1991 first week of September had 28C recorded in Valentia but the evenings cooled with sundown quickly enough that late in the season.

Tyrone212 · 20-07-2021 9:54pm

Bbc weather for the North have 31c for South/Western areas of the North tomorrow. Thursday could be warmer again and Friday may reach 30s again. I wouldn't rule out 32c being reached over the next days here. I'll go for 32.5c.

JCX BXC · 20-07-2021 10:33pm

Very dense fog now in West Clare, but utterly dead and very mild out. Very interesting weather, never experienced anything like this in Ireland before.

Meteorite58 · 20-07-2021 10:46pm

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The same down the coast here in Kerry , 18.3C , steady temperature for hours now and dead calm.

SouthWesterly · 20-07-2021 10:55pm

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Was on banna at 9 this evening. Could see the fog in ballyheigue, never mind ballybunion with the with the fog in Banna. 🤣

Lovely evening for a walk

Meteorite58 · 20-07-2021 11:09pm

Mimon · 20-07-2021 11:15pm

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Newport Furnace finally living up to it's name 😊

Jpmarn · 20-07-2021 11:19pm

Remote controlled Fan heater operating in cool mode for the last few nights in my sitting room. Near Limerick city.

Rougies · 20-07-2021 11:43pm

Saw this posted elsewhere. "Foggy Tralee Bay", presumably this evening going by reports. Stunning shot!

ongarboy · 20-07-2021 11:52pm

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I know. It annoys me that my home county of Kerry only has one ME station in the most exposed coastal island location of Valentia and is generally not representative of typical weather in most of Kerry. The difference in temps in Finner 27c and Malin 14c today in County Donegal show you how variable conditions can be within a county. Its a pity Kerry Airport doesn't have an official station as its inland and halfway between the population centres of Tralee and Killarney.

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