Summer 2023 - General Discussion

The fact that it was noticeably cooler in the West or has been a poor July has got nothing to do with the topic we're discussing.

It was the warmest June since 1976 in the East. It wasn't cold. It's irrelevant whether the West was warmer or not or whether we were cooler. It was still warm - the warmest since 1976.

I can guarantee you if July had been good everyone would still be saying how great June was ("aren't we blessed with 2 months in a row of good weather").

But because July was awful we're now rewriting June because we now don't think June was exceptional enough to make up for the crap July.

Thank God Syran is still on here to provide actual stats and statistics and not antidotes and feelings (or complaints about bad insulation in someone's home meaning a record breaking month temp wise was somehow cool).

Sweet Jaysus we thought it couldn't get any worse then August came.

Not only is it lashing rain like all of July and very windy but now we have temperatures of only 13 degrees!

This is a joke, for those of us that do the monthly weather contest we will probably get our lowest Max temperature today.

Was 2020 really that bad, as I don't remember it been that wet at all, but judging by the table you provided, the Summer of 2020 was a complete washout as well. You would think it would stick even more in our minds considering it was our first Covid Summer, so it should have been even more miserable considering we were all stuck inside constantly.

Clouded. A+ for the pun there Thelonious, whether it was intended or not.

Or in the south east. The last 10 days of June whilst warm were predominantly cloudy and at times very wet with thunderstorms.

Who cares if June was hot or sunny, its gone ,its the weather now that's the issue and it's woeful..is there anything summer like on the horizon? Even 2 or 3 days in a row of sunny weather ( Dublin specific)

East Co Galway. 17° and the rain sheeting sideways. Can't see my tomatoes ripening at all this year.

Sun out now, you must be in Southern Europe 😂 Still belting down in Dublin, looks like I will also be getting soaked on the cycle home, bad enough getting soaked on the way in this morning.

2020 was awful. Not as bad as 2012, but it started raining on June 2nd, and was consistently grey, wet and cold until mid September. It was the middle of Covid, so you couldn’t really go anywhere anyway, which is probably why people didn’t notice how bad it was.

You agreed with a poster who said the end of may and most of June was dry in Tipp. It wasn’t that’s all I’m saying.

I ordered a depression lamp to help me boost my mood ,its for winter but we haven't had a summer so I need it now ,I hope it works anyway

Gonzo seems to have lost interest in posting in the post 120 hours model thread, so that would indicate there is no sign of a sustained settled spell on the model output. However we could get 2 - 3 days of settled weather around the 10th of August. It looks like it might be back to unsettled weather after that . We will probably get a longer settled spell at the end of August.

Not too bad today in Sligo after last night's deluge. Extremely dark though but blue sky this evening with no sun . Its as if the sun has emigrated.

Rain or showers all the days showing on my phone.

Actually been a long time since I was able to say this, but it's a lovely evening here in the far North.

Only a small bit of drizzle earlier today, and although not warm, it's been sunny and breezy for good part of the day. Even got the grass cut.