Summer 2023 - General Discussion

Weather in Galway was a lot better than it was for the east of the country, but it was most certainly not bone dry in Galway until the end of June. I was down in Galway for four days for the June Bank Holiday which was stunning and then again in the middle of June, and there was some very heavy rain during my stay in the middle of June. Also I don't get this notion that we badly needed rain which is so Irish, It's Ireland for god's sake and we are always going to get rain. So whether we get two, three, or four weeks of no rain, enjoy it beacuase it will always rain in Ireland at some stage.

Its raining so much that there is green/brown algae growing everywhere all over the concrete and fencing...this normally only happens in winter

One aspect of this very wet July I haven't mentioned is rain days. Dublin Airport has seen 28 out of 31 days with rainfall at some point in the day so only 3 dry days all month. That is the most amount of rain days in a July I recall. 2007 had 27.

Just glad we're at the end of this horrific month which should be wiped from existence.

I was going to post the exact same thing!

What surprised me the most was how dark it was this morning, I had every light on in the house while we were up and about trying to get everyone ready for the day.

People's lives depends on grass growing and making their livelihoods out of it. As for your last comment about farmers,well that is a very ignorant comment. Financially it would be impossible to store the required amount of water and then irrigate it back onto the land to keep grass growing.

Yeah not quite the wettest but still the 2nd wettest since records began in 1939 which is noteworthy in of itself.

Those sprinklers are probably for fruit and vegetables and the area required to be irrigated would be tiny compared to what irish farmers would have to do to keep grass growing

Please tell me more about these spike in temperatures? Anything to cling onto now will suffice! 😅

Desperately dark. 11am. 14⁰ Galway

More rain here in the West, I had my wellies on all day yesterday. Lost all incentive to even move this morning and that's not like me.

Wednesday looks horrible in forecast so what level of bad is that, if yesterday and today are very poor conditions for July. A city break to London doesn't look much better midweek.

Supermoon should be visible at some point too but not if these dark dull days and nights continue I guess.

Might as well change the thread title, summer is long fecking gone.

😄😄😄😄 , whatever you do don't look back at my post at end of June that said summer 2023 was brilliant🤔.

Well done, I hate flying myself but doesn't stop me going, only problem is this year we went very early in summer, but at least we got some sun.

Apologies if already been asked/explained, but what is causing this wet July? is it linked to the heatwaves on the continent?

edit to add - I worked in The Netherlands during the summer of 2016 and I think that was an El Nino year. 30+ degrees most days. What was the weather like in Ireland that year?