Summer 2021 General Discussion

Summer is indeed over now but we usually leave this thread open for a few days to allow people to give their overall thoughts to the season.

Summer 2020 was the absolute pits but thankfully summer 2021 has been much kinder to us, particularly when a large part of the UK had a fairly poor summer overall. We got very lucky this summer.

June 2021:

After a very wet and cold May, summer finally showed itself final days of May with temperatures climbing and more in the way of sunshine. June here in Meath was largely sunny and often warm with temperatures generally in the 19 to 22C range. Highest temperature of the month here was 24C. Coldest day of the month was June 25th with only 14C. Overall a very dry month with barely any rain.

Overall: 8/10

July 2021:

The warm and dry spell from June tried to break down into the first week of July but it remained warm despite some rain or showers around. This cloudier and more unsettled period didn't last long and a heatwave developed which brought two weeks of very warm and sunny weather. Here in Meath we had our warmest day since 1983 with a temperature of 29C. This two week spell had many days in the 24 to 27C range and this warm/hot spell lasted until the final week of July. Up to this point the summer had been largely dry with only 2 or 3 days of rain since the end of May. The final week of July brought a complete flip on the weather with much cooler and more unsettled conditions arriving bringing plenty of rain and temperatures back into the teens. Highest temperature of the month here was 29C. Coldest day of the month was 17C.

Overall: 8/10

August 2021:

The first week of August was incredibly wet with flash flooding, some thunder and very little in the way of sunshine or dry weather. It rained every single day and it remained unsettled until Sunday 21st of August. Up to this point August was looking like a complete write off but a ridge of high pressure arrived Sunday 21st and delivered a week of unbroken sunshine and temperatures in the high teens to low twenties. Sunday 28th of August broke the sunny and warm spell with very cloudy and rather cool conditions. The cloudy conditions with slate grey skies persisted right to the end of August and is still ongoing right now. Highest temperature of the month here in Meath 22C. Coldest day of the month was tied with final day of August with only 14C which was overall tied the coldest day of the summer along with June 25th.

Overall: 4/10

It's hard to imagine a full 3 months of summer with glorious weather in Ireland. I don't think i've ever seen it in my lifetime but summer 2021 made a very decent attempt at it. If it wasn't for the final week of July and first 3 weeks of August this would have been a summer up there with 1995 but the rather poor and wet August let what could have been a vintage summer down. Despite this, August 2021 did feature 6 days of warm and sunny weather, something we haven't seen during August's in well over a decade. For me summer 2021 is well up there with Summer 2006, 2013 and 2018.

Summer overall: 7/10