Summer 2023 - General Discussion

What good are long summer evenings when it still feels like winter most of the time...what a waste

Lovely morning earlier, though cool air.

Brief heavy shower at 1pm so thought that was the start of the showers for the day.

It's sunny since and like a boiling-heat-sunshine, especially on a 3 mile walk.

18⁰ Meath

We are having an almighty thunder and lighting storm here at moment in NCD.

Torrential rain and hailstones.

That wasn't forecast as far as I know.

Ah well on plus side training called off so I don't have to stand on sidelines in that!

Status Yellow - Thunderstorm warning for Leinster, Cavan, Monaghan, Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford, Leitrim

Met Éireann Weather Warning

Localised thunderstorms for a time this evening

Potential Impacts:

Difficult travelling conditions

Spot Flooding

Valid: 17:14 Friday 25/08/2023 to 21:00 Friday 25/08/2023

Sweet Jaysys, I have just heard the loudest ever bang of Thunder!

Think they did alright, all of Leinster? Nothing here near Trim though getting dark at the minute….

I was just thinking that, oh it's the weekend, here comes the rain😁

At least that was a good thunder storm, so was exciting.

The thunderstorm and scarily heavy rain has left behind a serious chill in the air. I'm frozen. Thankfully I wasn't out in it but I stuck my head out the back door to check how badly the shores were overflowing and had to fully blowdry my hair as if I had stepped out of the shower. Miserable. God help anyone stuck outside in it.

I don't agree, over a million people live in Dublin that's a 5th of population of whole country, if bad weather is going to hit like it did tonight Dublin should be named.

It was very dangerous out there this evening in that weather, which was also at peak commuter driving, who knows how many crashes there were and a house went on Fire in Blancharstown.

Met Eireann are useless, hedging their bets with 'Leinster'.

Yes, but at the same time, the ME forecast is divided into Ulster, Munster, Connacht, Leinster, and Dublin. So I can see why someone might think they weren't including Dublin.

In fairness, though, the map showed it all clearly.

Right so why do Met Eireann do weather for Leinster on their website but yet the weather for Dublin separate?

Another Pig of a day in Dublin. Looks like the start of Autumn 23 will continue in the vein of Summer 23.

Cold, damp, windy. If it was November I'd say it wasn't too bad of a day as it's not constant rain, but it's pretty poor for August.

This summer and autumn, you guys in Dublin seem to be experiencing the near constant wet/damp/drizzly conditions that generally characterise the Kerry Atlantic climate. Now ye know how we feel and what a pain in the ass it is! Some people accept it and get on with it, more of us hate it. Same with ye it seems, judging by the posts here. But fear not because Dublin is the driest part of Ireland and the dry conditions will eventually return. While Kerry will stay rainy.😔 Though we've probably done better than ye this summer overall.