Summer 2023 - General Discussion

Quite a deluge in Raphoe, Donegal over the last twenty four hours, Seems localised though>

Wife was in the same predicament couple of years ago. So we got a Clothsline Canopy set it up at on the wall outside which gets the most wind. We got 10ft and it would easy take full load of washing our machine is 9kg. Will post link below but it as been a God send no worries about showers or rain moving in when you are away, also clothes can be left out all night. Clothsline Canopy Ireland - Covered Clothsline Drying Solutions, Killarney, Co Kerry, Ireland (clotheslinecanopy.com)

Did my morning run in the p!$$ing rain.

Sky sitting on the ground. Humid.

The grass is so high. It's loving this humid wet weather lol

15⁰ Meath.

Pouring down in N Kildare now again

Yeah, in the same way that in some Aprils and Mays the North West gets a month of better weather than us, the south is definitely having a much better July than anywhere else. Its not a nice July, there's plenty showers and less sun than you'd like, but nothing like what most are reporting on here. Even for the coming week, just looked at forecast on Met E l for Cork and East coast and it has far less rain down here and on average its 2 degrees warmer every day. Still not exactly beach weather though, only has it hitting 20s on one day.

The growth over the past few days has been unreal. Perfect mix for grass and veggies. I hope to be able to cut the grass when it clears this evening.

Has anyone else noticed that the apples and blackberries seem to be ripening early this year? I have seen fully ripe blackberries in mid July which is odd. I guess it's down to the 5 weeks of sun during late May-June.

It's clumsily written is all. The band of rain will slowly push south today. Ergo when it clears the north and west ("Rain will clear to sunny spells in the north and west later in the afternoon"), it will still be raining further south and east for much of the remainder of the day as that's where the band will have moved. Shouldn't be too bad all the same compared to yesterday but the rain in the south will come.

It should be sunny in the west and north and go from winter to summer in the next hour or two...

1993 had "only" 265.7mm at Collooney, not a very wet summer but very cool, cloudy and unsettled. June mild nights and very wet in the east from that deluge you mention followed by a cloudy disappointing cool July with a strong cold front sinking southward on the 8th that introduced a northerly flow for the rest of the summer (or indeed year until of course you guessed it.. December). August was drier and sunny in the east - first sunny month of a very cloudy 1993 - but cold with very early air frost. Autumn 1993 was our last genuinely cold autumn.

Re Rhodes, read this quote this morning in one of the papers:

“Eileen Lawton, her daughter Hannah Gormley and eight-year-old granddaughter Annabelle were also staying at the Princess Sun Hotel when it started to catch fire.

Their friend Glynis Wall said that hotel bosses evacuated, leaving guests to wait for rescue coaches which 'never turned up'.

'They said it was like images of a warzone,' Ms Wall said. 'Everyone around them was panicking. There were children and babies crying and mothers trying to protect them from the smoke.'

Holidaymaker Emma Marsh said: 'We are currently in Rhodes - we landed today only to be told that our hotel has burnt down. No one from the airline informed us before we flew.”

Bad situation and seems like people are being flown onto the island while it’s burning and unable to cope.

Yes ,the grass growth has been incredible of late. The brown patches are a long and distant memory now. I have noticed that about the berries. I remember the days we used to pick them when we were growing up.

Pity the weather is going to be crap for the All Ireland Final. Hopefully it will still be a good game though.

Another beautiful day under my umbrella, 🌂 Ella, Ella, eh, eh, eh.

Actually I can't even use an umbrella today because of the wind, didn't think could be worse than yesterday but sidewards rain takes the biscuit.

Still lashing here in NCD, Donegal.

I still maintain the weather had turned by June 20 I remember being in the airport that day and it was torrential rain. Plenty of thunderstorms etc and it was still mild but the weather had changed.