Summer 2023 - General Discussion

This setup won't even make it to the end of June, would be extreme if it did. We will most likely go back into a default summer pattern into the second half of June with low pressures bumping into Ireland and crossing into Scotland with high pressure edging into southern and eastern Ireland, England and Wales at times. Hopefully in July we will see another spell of weather similar to this one but with the Azores high parked over the UK and Ireland for at least a week or 2, that would be much warmer than the current setup and any easterly breezes would be very tame compared to the current situation.

Aside from western Ireland, the rest of western Europe has been fairly cool compared to normal over the past few weeks, although i think France has warmed up a bit now. A very different setup to this time last year were we had an unsettled May and first half to June while at the same time extreme heat was surging just to our south across Spain/Portugal and well north into France, the plumes were just waiting to burst their way north. No such heat yet anywhere in Europe, the real heat is still in the African continent. No sign of any plume activity or heatwaves in this part of Europe for a while yet.

Had my first swim this evening here in Kerry around 19.30, surprised how easy it was to get in being out so far, a little cool to start but got use to it very quickly, surprised no sting to it as you would expect so early June, spent a lot longer in the water than I thought I would be able for.

Easing down now to 17C from a high of 23.3C out here near the coast. Clear blue skies.

Lovely glow in the sky at 22.45 here near the Kerry coast. 14.7C now

Cloudy, breezy and cool here in Meath, a rather chilly 12C and wearing my standard winter clothes. Getting very fed up of this chilly easterly at this stage. If it's this cool 20km inland it must be really chilly along the coast.

The good news is that this chilly easterly should be less noticeable from tomorrow to about Tuesday with temperatures in eastern areas climbing back up above 15C over the weekend where 20 or 21C is possible away from the coast.

For western half of the country the warm weather will continue but probably less warm than it has been recently with temperatures around 22C and more in the way of cloud coming and going over the weekend, there may even be some isolated showers.

Saturday sees an improvement in temperatures for eastern half of the country, 20C or thereabouts certainly better than the current low to mid teen values.

Sunday may be slightly warmer again with 21C possible in parts of Leinster.

Bank Holiday Monday could be the best day as long as we can keep cloud cover to a minimum with 22 or even 23C possible in eastern areas.