Summer 2023 - General Discussion

Neddyusa · 02-08-2023 11:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120929650#Comment_120929650

Great Post! 👍

Only advice I'd add is to ignore the forecasts and watch the radar instead.

Over the past month if you were to take forecasts at face value, a hell of a lot of outdoor events would have been cancelled. The forecast has been consistently worse than the actual weather in terms of persistent rain.

Luckily most days have had good dry spells so the trick is to watch the radar - and get out like you and make the most of them.

Wilmol · 02-08-2023 11:27pm

Looks like another washout weekend incoming, would be more surprised if we had a dry weekned.

Wilmol · 02-08-2023 11:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120932162#Comment_120932162

Nice giga mansion.

giveitholly · 02-08-2023 11:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120932813#Comment_120932813

Doesn't look too bad after Saturday morning

Rebelbrowser · 03-08-2023 12:23am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120932578#Comment_120932578

Not sure there's been a single day I recall where temps haven't been at least 16c. Hell the median temp for most places down here in July was ca. 16c. I would say it hit 20c on well over half the days in my area during July - but haven't checked that.

Not saying it was a nice July, patently not, but the poster has a point. I too was in shorts most days, and I'm nearer 50 than 40 and have crap circulation.

appledrop · 03-08-2023 12:42am

July was not warm even by Irish standards.

Temperatures were below average everywhere, Met Eireann clearly stated this but it didn't make it into media click bait as only interested in reporting extremely wet weather.

compsys · 03-08-2023 1:09am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120933015#Comment_120933015

That’s not true

Temps were actually above average in 3 locations and bang on average in another two according to Met E.

Nowhere was more than 0.8° below average. Most places were around 0.4° below.

Temps in the greater Dublin area crept over 20° on around 10 days.

It wasn’t a warm month of course. But there was nothing overly noteworthy about the temperatures. For good or bad. But we’d record rainfall.

So I’d hazard a guess that’s why the rainfall made the headlines.

acequion · 03-08-2023 1:54am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120932970#Comment_120932970

Well all I can say to that is that I'm barely west of you in Tralee and it's been total crap with temps under 15 lots of days. Not a hope of wearing shorts here and I'd be a diehard of summer clothes and I've had to abandon them. This has been the most miserable July I've experienced in Tralee in about ten years. Great for you Cork guys if ye got shorts and t-shirts weather in July! But we, just west of ye in Kerry, certainly did not.

siochain · 03-08-2023 2:39am

Yeah it’s been wet July alright, and weekends on one of the days managed to get out on a long cycle in Wicklow / Kildare in the beginning of July. And even in the really wet last two weeks at about 8pm most evenings it a shorts and T shirt walk. Any way let’s hope for an Indian summer.

beggars_bush · 03-08-2023 7:59am

Considering booking another trip away in August just for some heat and sun. This weather is cat melodeon

pad199207 · 03-08-2023 8:28am

Another fabulous blue sky morning on the algarve.

Speaking to mates at home and they actually sound depressed.

boetstark · 03-08-2023 8:45am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120932810#Comment_120932810

Everything is relative. But you cannot escape the facts that tell us july 2023 was cool and abysmally wet. Everyday had rain, and I may stand corrected but rainfall figures broke records in all stations.

As a previous poster commented Achill was lovely on a particular day this week and the sea was warm.

The official weather stats came in as a high of 19c and sea water temperature of 15.6c.

I would consider that unexceptional but maybe some folk are happy with that.

Sammy2012 · 03-08-2023 8:50am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120933310#Comment_120933310

Will be there in 2 weeks. Can't wait.

Meteorite58 · 03-08-2023 8:54am

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OldRio · 03-08-2023 9:01am

The average temperature is not just based on the day time temperature. Night times have dragged that average up.

Trying to frame July into anything but abysmal is like putting lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

PowerToWait · 03-08-2023 9:04am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120933418#Comment_120933418

July was totally shyte all round, but constant comparisons to southern Spain are a bit futile. It's Ireland.

pauldry · 03-08-2023 9:43am

Another wet morning. Friday night into Saturday looks particularly bad.

Supercell · 03-08-2023 9:43am

Signs of a high trying to ridge north on the Monday fax, could be wishful thinking and its far out anyhow...I live in hope! Sunday looks decent enough for most bar the NW of the country.

Carol25 · 03-08-2023 9:49am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120933356#Comment_120933356

The sea was definitely warmer than that. I wonder where they get the temps from on those websites? I’m often in at 15.6c and it’s cold and feels it! One of those websites gives 16c today. Met Eireann forecasts sea surface temps as going down in the next few days off the west coast however.

mykrodot · 03-08-2023 10:05am

Decided to go to Ballybunion yesterday afternoon for a swim. It was fab. Ok the sun wasn't out much, although it made an appearance, but the waves were huge (due to Supermoon and high tides), the water was warm, and it was invigorating.

Lots of people there despite the Irish weather, families on holidays, wetsuits on kids, hoodies and shorts on most people. Its not as bad as everyone makes out all the time. You just have to get out there. If you stay at home and watch the weather forecast you'd never do anything.

compsys · 03-08-2023 10:07am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120933432#Comment_120933432

Many people’s expectations of what Irish weather is capable of are way too high. It’s the same every year.

I think our disagreements over June are a good example. On paper it was a brilliant month. But for some, it wasn’t.

But the entire country is just never going to be bathed in weeks of unbroken sunshine and temps over 25° every day.

I’d be far more disappointed with our winter weather (mild muck) than our summer weather these days.

OldRio · 03-08-2023 10:54am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120933432#Comment_120933432

I never did. I don't think anyone made those comparisons.

PowerToWait · 03-08-2023 11:15am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120933835#Comment_120933835

You didn't. I think you'll find someone did.

Hippodrome Song Owl · 03-08-2023 11:51am

It's still drizzling here in Dublin. I thought it was supposed to be drying up by now. I was hoping my grass might be dried out enough to cut this evening, but it's not looking good.

As a person who hates the heat (if you check back I'm one of those who has posted about being unable to cope with our " good" weather and never holidaying in the sun), I have been very cold for July and most of June. I have had to wear a fleece working outside, I've had a hot water bottle most evenings. This week in particular has been particularly chilly - I'm trying to warm up right now.

Apart from a few days of warm humidity around the middle of June (which I complained about!) I've mostly been quite cold. The stats say it was very warm in June and only slightly below in July, but I think night time temps must be playing a big role there. Our lovely weather in Dublin in early June was cool and fresh with beautiful blue skies, and I loved it - but I would only love it if it was not hot.

Gonzo · 03-08-2023 11:57am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120933835#Comment_120933835

Not sure anyone would compare Ireland to southern Spain when it comes to weather as they are worlds apart and I am very familiar with the weather in both regions. Alot of people do compare our weather tho to England/London and look for likenesses and even that is a bit unrealistic to expect similar expectations due to location/geography.

The past few summers have been very good but I feel the main thing most of the population feels this summer is being let down badly by this summer, especially the timing of the flip from good weather to bad. We talked an argued about June alot but much of the population doesn't really care for the June weather as schools are still ongoing and the holidays for most don't start till 1st of July and that's when most families choose to go on holidays. They may choose Ireland for a week away or weekends away as well as foreign trips. The sad fact for most of these families is summer packed it's bags and left the country within days of the kids getting their summer holidays. The ones that got away to sun holidays, most are back in Ireland and the grey skies, rain and wet ground is still here.

There are only 3 weeks left until all the schools reopen and the weather is still as bad as it was in July and looks like the bad weather will continue till around the middle of the month.

We may see signs of an improvement in the second half of August but any signs of things settling down currently look flimpsy and short lived.

mcburns07 · 03-08-2023 12:22pm

I personally don't recall giving much of a sh**e what the weather was like while I was off school in summer. You were just happy to not be at school and got on with whatever the weather threw at you. It feels more like parents deflecting their own disappointment onto their kids.

Maybe I just had a deprived upbringing, never setting foot on a plane so didn't know what I was missing out on ;)

mcburns07 · 03-08-2023 12:42pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120934079#Comment_120934079

Only 3 days in July failed to get above 18 degrees in Cork (Moore Park) with those days all falling between 17-18c. Most days were between 19-20 degrees. In terms of temps (max and min) July was a bang average month here, certainly not chilly. The rainfall was certainly noteworthy and perhaps to some extent the lack of sunshine / days with above average maxes, but the majority of days had useable weather, my well walked dog will testify to that! Definitely been breezy mind, feels like we've had a distinct lack of calm days since the weather turned.

adocholiday · 03-08-2023 12:55pm

Temperatures have never been a problem for me (within reason), cool or hot I don't really care, but the lack of sunshine and almost constant breeze is what really gets to me. The persistent dark slate grey skies have been the biggest annoyance for me and the most frustrating thing about this season.

Also not sure if I'm just more aware of it but it seems to have been quite a windy year. Not in strength or key events but just seems to have been wind as an almost constant presence for months now and it's come right through the summer with us. Makes sitting outside even under a cover a challenge.

Hippodrome Song Owl · 03-08-2023 1:04pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120934295#Comment_120934295

For me 18-20 is not t-shirt weather unless very humid. And any bit of breeze would make that quite chilly if not physically active.

We've had a lot of days that have hovered around 14-16 for most of the day and then it warms up to 17-18 late evening. So stats show 18C but actually it was much cooler for much of the day.

I'm not actually bothered by the cool weather though, I just think it has been quite chilly. Like I said, I hate the heat, and it's much easier wrap up than try to cool down when working. It's the rain that's the problem.

nacho libre · 03-08-2023 1:31pm

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I remember summers when I was young as bad as this one, and, just as you stated, we got on with it. I suppose if I had been exposed to warmer climates I might have grumbled at the Irish weather, but like you, I did not let the weather put me off going outside. I cycled. I played tennis and football in the rain. I swam in the sea during wet weather. Walked the beaches, whether it was wet or dry. The only thing I did not do was climb mountains during inclement weather. To others they might have been miserable due to the weather. I certainly was not. I do enjoy a fine day as much as the next person, but I won't let most weather types stop me going off somewhere.

Summer 2023 - General Discussion

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