Rare warm and dry August week ahead

Absolutely delighted, bring it on as I can't stand this recent heat.

What was your AWS max yesterday, Danno?

In Trim all week and it's been glorious, each day better than the previous. Had a social event in Dublin city yesterday evening and was expecting to be hit by heat stepping off the bus at around 19:00 but instead it was barely warm, maybe 22-23° and certainly not what I was expecting. I could even smell the sea air so the sea breeze had obviously made an incursion.

Am heading to the new home in longford today where I'm guaranteed no such sea breeze and whilst it won't be the warmest part of the country, it will be pleasantly warm, hopefully not far from 30°. It's not often I get to experience such pleasant warmth in this country but whilst it's here, I want to make the best of it.

That’s it highdef, we all should make the most of it while it’s here as we all know only too well that cooler blustery weather with rain is never that far away really.

Having breakfast in the back garden looking at the gin blue sky for the last few mornings has been a major highlight for me. The warmth when you step outside at 8am has been bliss.

21.4C already here in Waterford City. I think we'll break the 30C today.

Indeed, it's just beautiful and I could have this for half the year, no problem.....all year round ideally!

Personally, in the past few days I've only encountered a few people who have found this (in no way extreme) warmth to be too much and they fell into two distinct groups. One was elderly people so I can understand that and I have empathy for them. The other was people who were overweight by choice (ie, not a medical condition) and not just slightly overweight but the type of person who would be in the pub several times a week, would have take away a couple of times every week (if not more), would drive 1km to the shop rather than walk (to buy a pack of cigarettes or pick up a take away, perhaps) and in general, just don't look after their physical welllbeing. Granted, there are some people who have a genetic condition that results in them being overweight but I'm talking purely about those people who get fat because of their own personal choices that lead to fatness and then complain about the current weather which should not be a burden to a regular healthy person.

Yes, this is a contentious issue but from my observations, this is what I have seen. Healthy weight people with no underlying conditions=Loving this weather, generally. Overweight/obese people=can't handle this weather. Also, there are of course plenty of other reasons why an individual may be overweight and I am only commenting about people who are overweight due to their lifestyle choice.

I've no doubt this will cause some debate and is slightly off topic but it's a topic that is directly related to this very chat. Let the barrage commence!

Well I for one don't like this heat and I'm not over weight and I'm fairly healthy, I know loads of people who are similar to me and don't like it. So your assumptions which are not based on any data is way off the mark. It's like saying that someone who is thin doesn't like the cold. Everyone is different irrespective of their health status. If you like this heat, enjoy it and if not it will be gone very soon.

I just thought of a good example. On the way into Dublin by bus yesterday evening, I passed by an area of shops on Old Cabra Road in the Cabra/Phibsborough area. I counted exactly 20 people walking/standing in the area. All but 1 were obviously very overweight (which in itself was alarming) and most of them looked to be somewhat struggling with the "heat" - I could see sweat on the faces of most of them and some others had a "not liking this at all" expression on their faces. Body language told a lot too.

25.9 C here in Waterford City. It's going to be a very hot day down here. In the space of a few mins it's now 26.2C.

https://www.waterfordcityweather.com/

Up to 26 already in West cork, mad temps. Bit more of a warm breeze today though to cool people down! Temps rising faster then yesterday.

Hubby in Longford has said that it's warmer there than this time yesterday and that there's hardly a breath of wind so I know where I'm going to shortly! Can't be having this slight breeze in Trim as it's taking the edge off the nice warmth!

I may even go for an afternoon jog.......I absolutely love going for a jog in very warm and calm conditions!