Summer 2023 - General Discussion

The long range forecast is pretty abysmal, cant blame posters being downbeat about it. Especially as it looks like this could go on right through July and we all know that August never really works out too well most years.

However the weekend turned out to be a nice surprise, nice to get the better weather albeit only for a day or two, very windy until Sunday afternoon though.

Could be, but when is the forecast ever accurate for 2-3 weeks in advance?

It’s spilling rain and it’s nearly dark, an awful evening altogether

bucketing down here in limerick again...

58mm for the day here in South Kildare, the wettest day by far I've ever recorded at this location.

Lovely morning in Galway and yesterday evening was lovely too. I might be wrong but I don't think we got much rain in Galway yesterday compared to other western areas.

What I like about this changeable showery weather is that there are always windows of nice weather to avail of - preferably in the evenings after work.

And then you have the polar opposite. The posters who talk up every 1 minute ray in an otherwise gloomy day. Talk up even the tiniest dry interlude, the tiniest rise in temperatures. Make out that good spells last longer than they did in reality and desperately try to put a positive spin on bad forecasts. There's a name for that actually, "Polyanna." Obsessively looking for the positive. Personally, that annoys me as much as the pessimism annoys you. Yes there are stats and there is science, but there are also huge regional variations of even within a few miles. And there is also something science can't account for, human perception. Some posters get annoyed with people being negative. I get annoyed when people won't allow for human perception, won't give people a break and let them say what they feel, whether what they feel is positive or negative.

Very pleasant morning here in Leitrim. After a dull but dry start the sun is shining.

Very warm on morning run at 7am.

First shower of the day there an hour ago.

Overcast and black clouds now. 18⁰ Meath.

Some family landed in a very hot North Spain yesterday 34⁰ 😯

I don't really agree with what you've said as no one comes on here talking up one minute of sunshine. You're exaggerating a bit.

But being so annoyed and agitated about people being positive (of all the things!) seems like an awful trait, no offence.

I love people who are optimistic. I honestly can't fathom how that could annoy someone so much. And I wouldn't even call myself a huge optimist by nature either.

And no one is saying you can't post what you want. But you're on a weather forum where people have access to stats, info, and scientific data. So if they feel your "human perceptions'" don't match actual reality then you have to be prepared for people to disagree strongly with you.

Awesome Sryan! There's been some silver linings up here in the north too this week. We had a few thunderstorms including a nicely timed one on Saturday evening when at a friend's house having a few bevvies in the garden. Some nice forks and flashes with some booming thunder around 10pm when it was getting dark. Some fantastic colours in the clouds at that time too because the sun had set / or was setting.