Summer 2023 - General Discussion

It's the wind direction. When we get NW winds we get what yev been getting in Dublin while the rest of Ireland bakes. Met Eireann often ignore it as they can't predict it but I do notice a lot of times on the beach a small cloud can just become one large blanket in minutes. Must be someone scientific who can explain this randomness.

I would have said the wind direction has been fairly steady easterly the last few days at least. Didn't think it was NE'rly for today but maybe upstream where it matters it was. I'm flicking through the hi-res cloud predictors and while some nailed the inland fair weather cloud, the Irish sea stuff was a blank.

So NE'rly -> bad for the east coast.

E'rly straight or SE'rly -> better.

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Maybe its something that will never be tied down. It is interesting though, there's been plenty of fine weather in years gone by with similar wind directions and if anything I would have said it kept it cloud free right by the coast, with cloud only getting going inland. But that would be fair weather cloud and sure you could see that today on the satellite, didn't get going till well inland. This high stuff seems to be the tricky one. Maybe the pressure just isn't high enough? Never seen the UK get so shafted in a setup that has been brilliant for us.

But yes, getting x3 perfect days again at the weekend when you want them, makes up for it. Will be crossing fingers we get some storms at the weekend, awaiting Meteorites thoughts before I get excited however.

@pauldry I've actually lived in Sligo before and yes, so many days of cloud and drizzle that were just never forecast.

Seen the met Office deep dive and this is the temperature trend for most of June up until 3rd week at least only difference is winds will be south easterly so a much humid feel and thunderstorms are at a higher chance of breaking out ,notice how below average southern and Eastern European is

There is the video of it. So according to the deep dive we will have showers and thunderstorms around at times, but plenty of fine weather too. So not the traditional breakdown with a succession of fronts coming in off the Atlantic. I may have mentioned it before but I'm not looking forward to the sticker nights and rise in humidity

The heat looks like going on and on, indeed gaining traction into next week with temps nudging higher.

The weekend looks interesting, hard to say who will see the storms but a temporary breakdown is now odds on!

13 days in a row of temperatures over 20c in Shannon so far. Well in excess of 150 hours of sun in that time.

11 out of 12 days in excess of 20c in Claremorris. 15 hours of sun many of these days

9 days of temperatures over 20c in Sligo in a row after 1 day over 20c before that in the period April and most of May.

At 9pm

Shannon Airport 21°c

Cork Airport 12°c

Difference of 9°c in a not so significant distance!

Pretty groovy looking satellite on sat24 tonight

Actually bitter cold in city centre this morning

Sunny again in Sligo but the British cloud that's plaguing Dublin is effecting much more of the country today. Southwest may be the only area in the twenties. Well see if it burns.

God but you brought back a memory there I remember on the beach at Salthill in Galway on a beautiful day cloud free day when this small cloud formed and gradually got bigger and blocked the Sun for most of the day as it had got so big.

The cloud reached athenry overnight too. That’s the first cloudy morning here in about a week.

im taking it as a sign to drain the kids paddling pool. The water from it is being pumped onto some newly planted trees. The ground is very dry now.

So the Met Eireann morning forecast is similar to the UKMO deep dive forecast , humid and muggy nights with thundery showers at times but a good deal of dry weather also next week.

Very cloudy in Galway this morning, some breaks but also gets thicker at times. The cloud seems so low and thin, almost as if you could swat it away with your hands.

I find with SE'lies, they can often pick up advection fog along the east coast due to the higher humidity over the relatively cool sea. In fact I see it so often that I just associate the two together and anticipate an outbreak of fog at some point in the day. Had a lot of that August-September 2021.