Summer 2022 - General Discussion

sryanbruen · 10-06-2022 3:14pm

At this point January will have been calmer than June 😂

appledrop · 10-06-2022 3:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119184309#Comment_119184309

🤣🤣🤣 when spell check goes wrong.

appledrop · 10-06-2022 3:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119184321#Comment_119184321

If this continues, I'll be wrecking your head again at the end of this month saying now Sryanbruen, check out those wind stats for June for Dublin Airport😉

highdef · 10-06-2022 3:20pm

Have missed all the showers in Trim and there's been plenty of sun but that wind has put me off stepping outside, thankfully work has me busy. Current scene:

Gonzo · 10-06-2022 4:28pm

Just after picking up all the garden furniture which was blown over by gales. I am totally fed up of the wind and this June.

Dazler97 · 10-06-2022 4:59pm

Very windy here in carrick on shannon, thanks to that low wizzing past us, only outter bands from this but just seen the BBC weather as that's all i watch and a Spanish plume is to come up but mostly southern England getting this at present any shift to the west and we'd get it 🤞🤞🤞

Gonzo · 10-06-2022 5:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119184839#Comment_119184839

The heat spike still has to be watched. It could easily end up in a bust for us which is normal for Ireland. I think the most noteworthy weather event of this month will not be the very short lived heat spike but will instead be a possibly very unseasonably chilly and unsettled second half to June. The models still want to open up the Polar Express with low pressures dropping from northern Greenland down across Ireland and getting recycled over and over.

Mantis Toboggan · 10-06-2022 5:20pm

Absolute horror day so far here in Naas.

Hairypoppins · 10-06-2022 6:20pm

We're in the middle of our 8th torrential downpour here in sw Dublin atm ,this one is the worse yet ,an absolute washout of a day here

Dazler97 · 10-06-2022 6:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119184925#Comment_119184925

Oh no not a repeat of 2007 or 2012, I'd happily take the Spanish plume that polor weather can feck off, if only it was winter in that case we'd be in for a deep freeze, yes models still have to be watched absolutely, I'm watching them myself

10-06-2022 6:33pm

It's the weather equivalent of ADHD here in Dublin 4. Torrential downpours followed by clear weather. Missus took off for a run there in the clear sunshine about 20 minutes ago and now it's torrential rain and gusty winds.

highdef · 10-06-2022 7:38pm

Apart from the wind and one short shower in the late afternoon, it's been dry and mainly sunny today in Trim, Meath - Serious amount of shower dodging! I may venture outside for the first time today but not looking forward to that strong breeze.

Darwin · 10-06-2022 8:01pm

One benefit of the torrential downpours was a timely reminder to get up and clean the gutters, mine were full to the brim with water and overflowing. They were only replaced two years ago but full of moss already. Anyway hoping the remnants of TS Alex takes a hike and we get a better day tomorrow.

appledrop · 10-06-2022 8:06pm

Darwin, you need to get yourself a few magpies. They clean our gutters for us. I'm not joking they pick out the moss and throw it on ground so we just have to pick it up.

On the downside they absolutely terrorise all the birds nest at this time of year looking for baby chicks.

Darwin · 10-06-2022 8:16pm

Lol...think I'll give it a pass, the crows are bad enough squawking on the roof at 5am. It is interesting the magpies do that though.

fryup · 10-06-2022 9:05pm

*Query?

At this time of year there's a strange smell that lingers within my bungalow, a 'boiled cabbage' type smell it comes and goes - is it something within the environment that causes this? 😶

Meteorite58 · 10-06-2022 9:13pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119185465#Comment_119185465

You got me thinking Highdef about wind and my love of it! Even getting nostalgic for my sailing days when all we thought about during the season was wind strength , direction, fronts, Lp pressures etc , watching the charts like a hawk. During the day before evening racing I would be sailing the course in my mind and thinking of what sails and spinnakers we would be using, would even make or take a call during the day to discuss what suit of sales would be best to have on deck prepared before heading out! From town we could tell what force the wind was out on the coast by the direction and adding on a bit to allow for the freer air on the coast and would have a fair idea of sea state if the wind was coming off the land or onshore and depending on the tide or a recent pass from a Low Pressure . Of course many a time we would run out of wind especially on Summer evenings and almost drift around the course but always watching for stripes of wind on the water and trying to get into it, you should have seen the pleasure on our faces sailing past stationary boats maybe only a couple of hundred yards away ( or our glum looking faces when we were stuck in a hole 😀 ) . And of course some nights would be too strong to go out in and some races would have to be cut short and abandoned while we were sailing if it got too windy and I was often out when a lot of damage was done to boats, masts down, blown out sails, broken stays ect. scary but exhilarating . Did some overnight racing also and that is where you really get in tune with the strength, direction, gusts and so on. After some time sailing and getting use to what ever conditions were there that night we would talk of getting into the grove, feeling the wind and sensing how the boat was sailing , trimming the sails and knowing when they were set by feel , this all in the pitch dark maybe with the odd use of the flash light to check the tell tales on the sails ( bits of string like material hanging from the sail, when the sail is set correctly they should be flying horizontally).

I wonder will I get back again. Running out of jobs to do on my house 😁

Picture of a picture from a few years back during a regatta, crewing in the boat with the yellow and orange spinnaker........that's it I have to get going again although at my age now I might have to stay in the white sails class 😁

km79 · 10-06-2022 10:09pm

It’s seems to have been feckin windy almost every day for the last month

so annoying

esposito · 10-06-2022 10:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119186202#Comment_119186202

Yep think we are all sick of the wind. Windy summers are not nice unless it’s coming from a warm southerly/easterly direction.

Kutebride · 10-06-2022 11:43pm

The wind here in Galway all evening!! 😲Lots of interesting sky colours before showers and the dark clouds rolling by at speed tonight.

appledrop · 11-06-2022 4:03am

Fair play meteorite, didn't think there was anyone who would benefit from wind but forget about the sailors.

Everytime I look at those boats on water though personally, I always think, jaysus it must be freezing out there.

pauldry · 11-06-2022 8:45am

It's now 7-3 to good days in NW after yesterday produced a lot of sun and a lot of wind but only 2mm of rain. Today will prob be one for the bad days here. But tomorrow n Monday promise better so as bad as the weather is it has been dry enough. Well 19mm of rain here so far this month. It's 38mm in Dublin so East seeing heavier showers due to conventional effects of slightly higher temperatures.

Still nothing over 20c yet here in 2022. Might see it late next week. Finally.

Oscar Bravo · 11-06-2022 10:55am

A cool cloudy windy morning here in Castlebar. October like.

boetstark · 11-06-2022 12:40pm

Absolute muck weather and muck summer in a muck climate. Sick of it

giveitholly · 11-06-2022 1:08pm

Very little rain falling in my area,and whatever is falling the wind is drying it up as fast as it falls,ground rock hard and streams and wells fairly low as well

km79 · 11-06-2022 1:08pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119187318#Comment_119187318

It’s worse than yday which is some achievement

completedit · 11-06-2022 1:24pm

Disgusting day here. Sunny but too windy it would be a scorcher if the wind wasn't so strong.

pad199207 · 11-06-2022 1:36pm

The sun is shining, it’s dry. Okay it’s breezy. It’s not that bad out

Gonzo · 11-06-2022 1:40pm

a dry day so far but that wind is just killing any feeling of a nice day outside.

highdef · 11-06-2022 2:49pm

Moderate rain, strong and gusty breeze and current temperature of 14° in Trim, Meath. Looks like there'll be further showers throughout the afternoon. Couldn't ask for a better summer's day 🙄

EDIT........that's now very strong and gusty breeze and very heavy driving rain. It's about as bad as it can get.

Summer 2022 - General Discussion

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