Summer 2022 - General Discussion

Ya I saw BBC weather and tomorrow might actually see sun in the NW briefly before drizzle returns later.

Lights on now as it's dark and wet n windy n 13c. May June and July so far definitely the worst in the West in my lifetime.

Some difference between the city and where I am 25km east. Been bright enough here since the afternoon. At least it's dry and mild.

I'll tell ya what's new. No sunshine no temp over 20c and constant wind. We have had much wetter Summers but a few days of pleasant 20 plus degrees in April June whatever. This year nothing. Our last warm Summer day was in September 2021.

This spell is notable in the West and NW for it's persistent status, we do expect inclement spells in summer, the occasional downpour and some wind but we do generally get lots of sunshine and at least things keep changing. We usually get a very settled spell with east winds in May and sunshine, then often a spell where winds are North for a while with lots of sun, albeit cool evenings. Basically when it's changing it's not so bad and a bit of sun makes the world of difference.

This year since about the end of first week of May bar a handful of days we've had virtually non stop wind, drizzle, cool temperatures and complete absence of sunshine for 8 weeks straight. I can't recall such a monotonous event in my lifetime before.

I'm not sure if this is what a strong La Niña brings or if there are other global patterns that are similarly behaving as such (you'd imagine if the Azores high and the Iceland low are so stationary this year that somewhere else is having a similar anomalous event)

I don't know if the stats on sunshine and max temps backs up what I'm saying, be very interesting to see.

The mean sea level pressure anomaly reanalysis for May to July 2022 (July being only to the 3rd so far) would favour persistence of the drab conditions that you describe and agree with anecdotal experience. Whilst such a pattern isn't that unusual in say July, for May you expect greatly less westerly influence than we seen in May 2022. It was one of the most westerly Mays I've personally seen. I noted less easterly winds than I'd expect in a typical May. The cloud from the southwesterly winds combined with frequent tropical maritime airmasses also meant significantly milder than average nights - some of the mildest on record.

The last time we had a period of easterlies that didn't have a southerly (occasional days in May) or northerly component (late May/early June) was back in the final week of April.

If we cast our minds back to March which in my opinion is by far the best month this year so far, we can see a distinct lack of westerlies with high pressure ridging to us from a core over southern Scandinavia. This meant lots of sunshine and later in the month before the final few days decently mild conditions for the time of year.

Quite different to what May 'til now has brought.

BBC long range forecast on there, every day next week reaching over 30 in the south of the UK . Back to here ,Sunday/ Monday looking nice everywhere then more rain/drizzle/low cloud for Mayo Sligo Donegal Tuesday. By in large though,away from the W/NW the weather is looking not so bad.

One thing though last week sometime Joanna Donnelly,mabey Wednesday, stated "Summer is coming next week" i.e this week. Very silly comment to come out with on a live broadcast to which people make plans around.

It's been sh1t, sh1t, sh1t so far in the far north this summer.

To see a summer music festival in July, with everyone wearing coats zipped to the neck, and wooly hats just shows why we are so miserable a lot of the time. I really miss my sun holiday this year. Will definitely be booking one next year.

When i looked out the window there,there was a brief break in the grey pig scutter stratus cloud,i saw a bit of the ozone very briefly and some twilight. It was quite strange to see, then buried and choked under the muck again.

it made me think of all the people across the continent tonight enjoying an early july evening,and the desire to be alive that it brings.

... and then the sun tempts you when it shows its face for 2min, you get a taste of the heat and think about what could be.

Personally I can live with it but it's a sh1t summer holidays for the kids when they are waking up to grey skies and drizzle every day.

Depressing stats.

We have such a bad climate, I used to joke years ago about gov. giving everyone rain boots and a proper rain coat to walk in the #hit weather. It’s utterly depressing, our climate.

Good lord !

Indeed I am take it from me the weather in cork city was awful yesterday dark and cloudy very windy the sun popped out sporadically 5 mins at a time before disappearing to reveal more cloud