Summer 2022 - General Discussion

fairly cloudy today in Meath, it's warm tho 21C. If we were to enjoy unbroken blue skies like England temperatures would be at least 23 or 24 today but with all this cloud around temperatures are held back by several degrees. Hopefully the sun will come out during the afteroon because today is the best chance for low twenties away from the far south-east of the country until Monday.

I've a feeling 23C maybe the highest temperare we will see today and not even sure anywhere will make that tomorrow. Monday and Tuesday looks best for 20 or 21C. After that a cooler airmass may take over for the rest of June from the north or north-east. This June could end up with very low maximums just like May if an official station doesn't reach 24C either today or tomorrow. There are still parts of Ireland waiting for their first 20C of the year.

Reached 23C here in Meath, at one stage my phone did report 24C but unless Dunsany reports 24C it won't be official. Sunshine still on the dissapointing side, it was nice there for about an hour between 2.30 and 3.30 but it's gone mostly cloudy again. If we had unbroken sunshine across Leinster today i'd say we easily would have gotten to 25C in several places if not higher. Sun really has been very limited today but anytime it pokes behind the clouds the temperature just lifts up.

Not in Meath anyway. From the looks of the temperatuare profile there is a fair bit of sea breeze cooling going on with southern coastal counties with that long sea fetch between northern Spain and our south coast. If we had the oven of France lying just to our south the temperatures would be very different.

Ireland misses out on these plumes every single time because our terrible Geography surrounded on 3 sides by cool summertime Atlantic waters. Over 1000km of sea to our south, west and north. We would need a long fetch South-easterly from Algeria up through France, then England crossing the Irish sea and into Ireland for widespread temperatures of 30C or more, something we never seem to get. This is probably why most of us will never see that 33C all time record beaten in our lifetimes. Mid to high 20s is the best we usually get under perfect conditons with the exception of one or two places like Shannon Airport which can mange to scrape a 30 to 32C on the rarest of rare occassions. Sadly when we do get a south-easterly going the sea breezes puts curtains on temperatures like 30C across most of Leinster and much of Munster due to those sea breezes which can extend quite a distance inland.

Unlike England we don't have any suitable landmass just to our south to draw the heat in from and they are positioned further east which also helps them.