Summer 2022 - General Discussion

The charts are chopping and changing so much there isn’t much point looking beyond four or five days in my opinion.

The month could either go out in style or with an autumnal chill.

Who expected 11 hours of sunshine in Dublin on Sunday?

edit: I presume the only reason 1955 doesn’t have a place in the record books is because it was a late starter and was a July/Aug/Sept summer after a cold and wet June.

I put this edit in the wrong post and should obviously have been in my later post

Thanks for sharing Syran, really interesting data. I would imagine the rainfall one is also down to June being a pretty poor month, July and August so impressive. Phoenix park has only recorded 48mm of rain for the whole of July and August combined up to 22nd August !

Funny looking at the years on your list for summer mean temperatures, I am not overly surprised by 2018 but I am surprised at 2006, I thought that was a shocker of a summer because I have memories of things that happened that year but clearly it was a very nice summer. 1995 always the benchmark for great summers :)

Certainly Summer 2022 one for the memory bank from a positive perspective (in Dublin / East anyway).

do you know how I remember that Sunday afternoon? I was sizzling on the beach in Wexford and it was on the radio that the Leinster final was delayed by a thunderstorm!

Thanks Syran for your posts, I have a huge interest in past weather,

It's getting some bonus points from me solely for the fact August has provided for once, it's such a novelty to get a great August that when one like 2022 turns up, it feels so nice. Ok it's not an August 1995 but this is more than good enough for me. Consistently fine days and an epic spell with record breaking temperatures. Grand really. No more referring back to 2003 that August did this, did that.

Not summer but March was superb and April was good, more especially in the second half though the easterly wind did get annoying here on the coast. Disappointing May and June but we haven't done bad at all have we this year, along with a lovely dry, sunny January to boot.

What stands out to me most of all though is that we're still in the period of mild anomalies that began in June 2021. This has to end at some point, it is getting ridiculous. I don't have IMT stats to hand but I wouldn't be surprised if we're touching records by now. Longer than the 2006-07 exceptional mild period that ended in Summer 2007.

Let's hope the south and east see rain soon,some places are like a dustbowl

Indeed and in general, it was quite a poor summer for the south of the country. Donegal was the place to be that summer. Malin Head had one of its better summers on record and was the sunniest station in the entire country out of our limited sunshine station network which is highly unusual. June mostly cool, cloudy and wet away from the far north; it was exceptionally wet for England & Wales with the summer solstice being infamously awful there along with 1977 and 2021. July was pleasant, notably cold first day but fairly warm and changeable otherwise. August was exceptionally warm, humid and wet with those extreme rainfalls for the south that you mention.

Far from a typical Irish summer, that's for sure.

I haven't looked at the IMT stats for a while but give me a few days. Last time I checked though, the running 365 day average anomaly was running equal to that of the 2007 period you mention,, but this time around, these higher anomalies are running for a more extended period.

another dry day in Dublin if a bit cloudier. Still very pleasant though with just a light breeze. Watered the garden yesterday, the ground like a rock and the grass still very yellow. You can tell the plants are almost craving rain

Another lovely day I'm Dublin, it really is an unbelievable run of good weather for August. Its the best August I ever remember.

I've pictures of us out and about other years and we have raincoats on, look freezing in some pictures, the usual crack for August 🤣

Even the forecast wet days this year are wrong 90% of time.