Summer 2021 General Discussion

Please tell me theres no end in site for this??

I was driving from one side of Dublin to the other earlier. My car was reading 28.5 degrees when driving close to Swords, later i was in Clontarf and it said 25 and then just slightly inland it was nearly 27. Dublin Airport passing Phoenix Park pretty much never happens so that is most definitely very unusual.

Casement in West Dublin however was 27 degrees at 3pm.

Edit.......Phoenix park has just overtaken Dublin Airport again on 4pm update :)

4pm

Newport down to 29C, Mt. Dillon holding 30C

Six stations at 29C, incredible really! Will probably see some more 30C reports today.

Shannon so often does a late surge and its at 29 now. That was the location that hit 32 back in 2018. I wouldnt be surprised if it went to 30 or 31 today. I expect Mount Dillon might hit 31.

I wonder is there an issue with the Malin Head reporting station, surely there has to be an error with that reading with everywhere else at least 10 degrees higher. I get its on the very tip of the North facing coast but its still surrounded by other locations with really hot temperatures. It just seems odd

Dropped to 29.1°c now in West Clare after an earlier high of 30.1°c. Sunshine has become very weak and hazy

I do agree we lack stations but I would say where the big heat tends to happen - midlands/west/north west, that coverage is O.K. Kilkenny alright would be interesting but would we really see the hottest temperature in the lower third of the country? I know KK has the highest ever in Ireland but wasn't/isn't that reading controversial? There are also far more than the 25 synoptics at play. Official readings aren't available straight away but under the historical data section there's far more stations to look at. Generally, the max yearly temperatures do tend to happen at the 25 synoptic ones. I can remember maybe one year recently where Athy had the joint highest official temperature of 26.Xc. Below are the 'official observations' on WOW which has a better spread. I'd find it hard to believe (but wouldn't say 100% not of course) that the bottom third of the country is sneaking 31c + in blind zones. Of course they are microenvironments and sun traps so perhaps. It'd be great nonetheless to increase greatly the stations.

I worked in Kilkenny for several years and it’s a real heat trap. Driving on the M7 and M9 from Dublin to Kilkenny you would really see a dramatic increase during warm spells and equally in winter it can get very cold there. In a heat wave I think hitting over 30 there would not be unusual and I would well believe that record of 33.3

That is indeed the record for latest 30C in Ireland - 31C too that day.

We had 32 degrees at Shannon just 3 years ago, June 2018

Yes it is indeed. A similar thing happened during the cold spell in 2010, clouds rolled in at midnight when it was close to the record.

Highest temperature today was at 2.37pm , usually highest temperature is around 4pm so who knows what it would have been if it stayed clear. Could be broken again tomorrow, I would say it probably will be.

Latest by date not by most recent ..

and ironically the coolest area in the country at the mo is in the sunny southeast😎