Summer 2023 - General Discussion

just back from a camping trip in wexford. Friday night wind was interesting! Several tent poles bent or snapped but we survived and had a great weekend. It was genuinely quite warm on the beach today and yesterday. Was swimming in the sea two weekends in a row now. In the sun!

Some serious downpours now in Lucan. At least the wind has died down, and it was dry until evening.

Reading the text forecast over the last couple of days. It had a low chance of patchy rain and drizzle for the SE on Sunday night, then patchy rain and drizzle and now for tonight - Showery outbreaks of rain, heavy at times will affect parts of the south and southeast tonight. It just kept upgrading.

Most of Wales and parts of N england are under a warning from midnight. Mentions some uncertainty in the track. Widely 20-40mm in the warning area but up to 80mm is possible in NW Wales and NW England. Dodging the worst of it but Wexford especially could see some high totals, perhaps a rain warning.

Isn't it a sad state of affairs that in mid August, describing a day as being "really great" when conditions involve a couple of hours of cloudiness, a rain shower with sunny spells (mix of sun and cloud) and mostly warm (and likely sometimes cool as a result as there was no chance of it being hot anywhere in Ireland today) can actually be considered to be really good in mid August!

I was at the Tullamore Show today. Weather was rather shite for the time of year. Mainly cloudy, some sunny spells in the afternoon. Breezy with several showers. Had a t-shirt, jumper and winter jacket on. Got to remove my winter jacket during the sunny spell in the afternoon when we sat out on the grass near the bar area but the umbrella had to go up for a bit when yet another shower passed over.

Yes, the weather was an improvement on the previous day but that day was just awful.

Rotten morn in Cork city.

A lovely morning for a walk around Castletown House. Dry and bright, light breeze. But it is noticeably much cooler.

This time last year we were in an orange warning for thunderstorms marking the end of the heatwave for the west but stayed hot in the east for another day ,it also knocked my power out for an hour in carrick on shannon , i want the heat back and we only have 4 weeks of pleasantly warm weather before the sun loses its strength 💪

So weather better than forecast in Firhouse D24.

Sunday turned out beautiful, real heat in the sun.

Saturday was more hit than miss but some lovely sunny spells also.

What's REALLY frustrating is forecasts for rainy weekends (like the 5th or 6th one in a row coming to up) so you can't plan ANYTHING outdoors.

I'm not bashing forecasts but I'm so fed up with so called rainy weekends turning out better than expected but we couldn't plan anything outside!!!!! Grrr....

And please no replies about "making the most of it" etc. we have done so it's just maddening the bloody summer weather here.

Ok rant over.

Heading there in the morning. Its not too bad at home. Not cold and not raining as much as it has been previously.

Lovely afternoon and evening though, certainly here in West Cork

They used to use the rainfall and cloud predictor to show the weather the next day on the RTÉ weather. The symbols are useless and totally outdated. Radar didn’t work for Connacht yesterday at all hardly - plenty of showers none of which were picked up on the radar. My clothesline of washing was the victim🙂. Met Eireann weather app developed to tell local weather showed sun for the day despite frequent showers all day. It’s taking ages for this Shannon radar to be updated and even at that it’s not enough coverage for the west and north west. Summer is when children are off from school and the weather forecast is important, even for tourists, campers, sporting events - yet this is when they decided to shut the radar. The forecasting has been very poor for Connacht this summer. Rant over 🙂.

Turned out a lovely evening alright. Grey and overcast now though but hopefully it'll stay dry.

It looks like the Azore high might extend in over us next week settling things down again for at least a few days.

it's just so oppressively grey, all the time. and oh look now it's belting down with rain.

i think yesterday wasn't the worst but was mostly really cloudy in my part of dublin, the bar is just so low now for weather and it's sad to think we have to look forward to next year for summer weather already, in the middle of f**king august when it's peaking everywhere else in the northern hemisphere :( :( :(

Thinking of going to a festival here in Ireland mid Sept, surely it can't still be pissing rain every day by then, but I wont be surprised if it is