Summer 2022 - General Discussion

Looks like we are yet again getting away with murder here in Dublin compared to rest of country.

16 degrees here cloudy and windy but at least it's dry.

If Met Eireann even attempt to say the wind is normal for June, I'll be one of those who write in to complain about their forecasts 😉

I got two walks in Gonzo, I'm planning ahead for the rest of the week😉

Any reason for this? You would think with Cork being further south it would be better but it gets alot more rain than Dublin.

I've a friend from Douglas who has lived in Dublin a good while now but he always said this, it's like chalk and cheese as to how much wetter Cork is. It's mad given it's only a 2 and a bit hour drive away.

I'm telling you Sryanbruen I'd be onto them if they said average wind for June😉

Some days after the school run I'm like your one from Avonmore ad whose hair is wrecked by weather going from hairdressers to her car due to wind🤣.

It's not been a stormfest of wind in June but its the duration of the breezy and moderately windy spells.

Like for crap sake we've had 22 windy days when the wind has been 30mph or more but rarely has it been over 50mph like some days other years that have brought up the respective average for those years. Its just a constant fresh breeze and on the windward coast a gale at times.

Tonight we worried we may have to buy unaffordable heating oil coz the house is so cold and we have none but we will sit in our quilts for a day or two and hope the wind eases and temperature goes over 14c again soon. Its 11 and 12c since Friday

Lovely blue skies on my walk first thing this morning. Makes such a difference to the mood. Needless to say it didn't last long. Still, decent drying out in that wind 😮 even with a build up of cloud as the day went on. No rain yet. Looked like it was approaching all day. Dark and wintery now. Meath.

If ye think Cork is bad ye wouldn't want to come to Kerry 😲 It certainly justifies its place as rainiest county in the country. I came back from Spain Friday morning and there have only been a few dry interludes since. My garden is a heap of muck and water. I hear ya KayneSouthEast about your hanging baskets in smithereens.😥 Because I really must have some semblance of summer, every year I spend a fortune on patio flowers. And every year it's a huge labour of love trying to protect them from the Kerry climate. Tonight every one of them [and there are a lot] are all crowded into the conservatory and utility room as otherwise their roots would rot from the constant wet. And this happens a few times every summer, even last year which was good. But no way will I be without them, it's worth it to look out at them on good days and to be cheered by the colour on the many grey days.

And there is no doubt that midlands and east fare much better. Today I had to go to Athlone. Not a drop of rain there until well after 4PM, in fact quite mild and pleasant, but once past Newcastlewest on the way home this evening, I was back in deluge land and it's been lashing since.

So folks over east, ye really don't have it so bad compared to us.😥 Thankfully I'm escaping back to Spain in a few weeks, my sanity wouldn't hack an entire summer here. It might improve but then again it might not. We tend to spend our summers here waiting and hoping and it's the hope that kills us.

About as grim as is possible to imagine at the min.