Summer 2023 - General Discussion

Looking like rain.. From Met Eireann below. The further east the better.

'SATURDAY: Staying humid with occasional outbreaks of rain, most frequent in western parts later in the day. Most areas will be cloudy with the best of any sunshine in the east and northeast. Highest temperatures of 19 to 24 degrees in light to moderate southerly breezes.'

June rain so far

Sligo 65mm

Finner 45mm

Markree 38mm

They mustn't have got the explosive storm the other day that gave us over 20mm in an hour

Yeah there was hardly any breeze at Salthill this morning. Gorgeous swim, the water is unreal.

Just 12.8mm in Mace Head (Average = 82mm)

Belmullet has 21.5mm (Average = 72mm)

Claremorris 22mm (Average 74mm)

Very dry month for Connacht and especially Galway.

25mm in Kildare after ducking and dodging the majority of the downpours over the past week

23.5C on the car here in Co. Kilkenny. Lovely.

Yep, not a bit surprised. The farmers need rain for winter fodder purposes. Some of the large fields near me that usually produce many bales of silage have long grass that is turning to hay. I would guess they expected rain this week and got very little.

There is something magical and even spiritual about a midsummer twilight. The long days are just not for me though, and for some reason, they seem to go on longer than the longer nights of the winter, even though it all balances out over the course of the year.

Unlike Cluedo Monopoly, I don't find that summer puts people in better form at all. If anything, the excessive heat of summer makes people more irritable and short-tempered. And from my own observations at least, it seems that people are a lot more calm and mellow and generally more relaxed when the weather is dull, dry and calm than when it is sunny, glarish and hot.

Going by Met Eireann data, the June has had over 140% of its normal sunshine for the period up to the 21st. Certainly, this must be one of the sunniest Junes in living memory by my reckoning.

Humid southeasterly winds, it's not unusual at all and happens during most days where the wind is southeasterly in Dublin.

29th April. I do not have a good picture of that so here's one from 16th April at Irishtown towards Poolbeg as it started to approach me from the bay.

Next time if you see a warm day and there's southeasterly winds forecast, don't be surprised to see an outbreak of sea fog at some point in the day.

It missed Sligo we had 1mm of rain for 20 minutes last night.

Heat is stretched to Sunday now. Maxes in the low 20s and mins in the High teens.

There would want to be max of 14c and low near 0c in the last week for it not to be our hottest June on record in Sligo so it's a given.

Finally some prolonged rain in Galway. Well needed.

I'm not one of them as I love hot, dry weather but I love all types of weather. Its the volume of one type over the other that I dislike about our beautiful island.

Id have to agree with your point on a whole though. At the height of the heat on the East Coast there was multiple stabbings, heat definitely brings out the crazy in some people.

Agree with your first sentence about solstice twilight......and the few weeks either side of it.

Can't agree at all with the rest though. Perhaps it's just coincidence that everyone I ever meet is fond of warm and settled weather. Certainly have not experienced it this summer anyway but then again, I don't recall any excessive heat so far this summer either but then again, we are only just over three weeks into summer. During settled spells, it's generally been around mid 20's with the odd day closer to the high 20's. So "warm" to "very warm" for most days. I don't believe we've hit the "hot" criteria either, which I believe is 30° according to Met Eireann......very rare for June in any case. I think Dundalk got to 29.9° recently and I think it was @sryanbruen who stated that, open to correction though.

But the long days are heaven for me and have been the main factor that has convinced me not to move to a warmer climate but if I do move to warmer climate when I retire, it would probably be to southern Spain, where the weather is often fine and the sun sets later than you would expect for its longitude, thanks to the timezone it's located.

Have been doing some night work of late and it's been so nice leaving the house at about 04:00 and it's already fairly bright. I'd swap a dark commute to the office for a bright one coming home though, ANY day!