Summer 2022 - General Discussion

This weekend is a perfect example of why we'll all be fighting with each other at the end of August as to whether it was a good summer or not.

Barely a drop of rain all weekend where I am in south county Dublin with temps of over 23º each day. Feeling warmer with the humidity. A bit more sun and it would almost have been the perfect summer's weekend.

Obviously it's been a different story elsewhere.

It was a bit damp when I woke up on Saturday around 10am so was probably raining before that. Bit since then not much rain (bar a shower in the city centre around 6pm yesterday evening).

Raining heavily in NCD since 5pm.

To be honest I'm surprised the day stated dry that long. Huge dark sky from about 2pm onwards so I think we got lucky in that sense.

Rained yesterday from early morning till about 1pm.

I could understand people being disappointed with weather this weekend if you were working all week.

At least it’s remained warm since the brief hot spell. I was worried it would get cool when the Atlantic air rolled in last week. The wind has been a right pain though.

Hoping the bank holiday weekend and beyond will revert to warm/very warm weather after the upcoming cooler week.

Muggy night again. At least the wind has died down a bit

Its been a fairly windy/gusty wknd in Dubkin with rain on Sat morning and Sunday evening. Certainly not great summer weather but serviceable by Irish standards.

Yeah the grass is showing signs of stress where it has been grazed, the best fertilizer it could get right now would be some rain.

I woke up to rain Saturday morning but it didn't last and it only started to rain late yesterday evening.

It was extremely blustery all wknd though. Certainly not great summer weather in my opinion. But of course better than the wet muck the W/NW got.

Went swimming in Fountainstown yesterday and it was lovely! On the way down there were really heavy showers and was a bit worried but when we got there it stayed dry and even got a bit of sun! Just after our swim, and having got changed and had a lovely O' Flynns sausage, it started pouring so just hopped into the car and headed off - talk about luck!

On 2 weeks annual leave from Friday, and going to do some of the Waterford Greenway on Sunday but now seeing from posts above, weather is gonna be shocking grrrr

If I was to rate this summer so far from a Dublin perspective, i would give it a 7.5 /10. June was very poor but July has been excellent. Even this weekend just gone, we got a couple of tiny showers but nothing of any note and it was 23 degrees for most of it, it was partly cloudy but some nice stretches of sunshine. I would say out of the 24 days in July, we have been over 20 degrees for nearly 20 of those. We have had a 33 degrees, a 29, several days around 27 degrees, loads of days around 23-25 and then a good few around 20 or 21.

For me the main thing in summer is being able to get out and about each day and do things without being rained on. For the whole of July to date, only 11mm of rain has been recorded which is exceptionally good. June by comparison had 43mm (which wouldnt exactly be classed very wet in itself but it was much cooler in June and windy).

I would take this July's weather every single July if I was offered it, mix of cloud and sunny and mid 20s for much of it, ideal in my opinion. Of course extra sunshine each day would always be a bonus but we have to remember where we are based geographically!

I do feel for locations though that have seen really poor weather, I know a good few people who have been out west and north west and it seems to have been a very different story over there.

Hopefully a good August lies ahead for everyone.

Back to the usual with the wind back. Some fleeting sunny spells and showers.

Feel sorry for the kids, outdoor summer camps in Ireland are inherently risky.

Couple of mine started a week long football camp this morning, in strong winds and sideways rain.

I do think May, June and Sept are our better months of recent years. July and August seem to be constantly wet.