Summer 2023 - General Discussion

The sun came through.

Gone dark now. Looks like a squall line approaching parts of Meath on the radar.

Tuesday

Totally agree with the daylight hours through the year in southern Spain. If I'm lucky enough to retire a little bit early, I'll move there, probably somewhere near Malaga as it's a lovely city and it's quite far west.

We just had one here in Sligo too bringing August rain up to 112mm

So July 186mm

August 112mm

Total Summer holiday Rainfall 298mm

An average of nearly 5mm every single day though nearly 250mm of that rain was at weekends so mainly light showers weekdays and frontal events at weekends.

These past 2 months are well up there with 2007 to 2012 but in Sligo we had a lot more dry and sunny spells in July than many of you with 90 percent of rain at weekends. So 1985 and 1986 remain untouchable here. Those years the Shannon burst it's banks. It didn't this year.

Though the temperatures are set for the mid twenties they will set off showers. Also light showers later tomorrow and drizzle in the NW Sunday which wasn't originally forecast.

Temperatures should be very warm though. Don't expect it to last after Wednesday.

Reposting this Irish synoptic stations' rainfall totals comparison with recent summers but with the 2023 totals now complete.

All places had obviously wetter than 2022 and 2021 which were quite dry summers for the most part. The national average beats 2020 but this varies from place to place.

Valentia had its third wettest summer on record since 1939 with only 2020 and 2009 wetter.

Dublin Airport had its wettest summer since 2008 and fourth wettest on record since 1941. This included its second wettest July on record behind only 2009 whilst the other 2 months were unremarkable.

Dunsany had its wettest summer since 2008 and is the second wettest here since the automatic station began recording in 2006. Don't have summer data for the manual yet which goes back to the 60s.

Athenry also had its wettest summer since 2008.

2008 really was an atrocity.

List of storm names have been released today ,is your name there ....

Autumnal weather in autumn is acceptable though. Autumnal/winter weather at the height of summer is infuriating.

So I can see the logic in being happy to see the back of that head wreck.

What’s new? Practically every year has better weather in September than August. Last year was the first really good August for 19 years!

Of course the darker evenings and lengthening shadows take some of the good out of a fine September. There’s still heat in the sun up the equinox and the sea is at its warmest.

Nope. It's Ireland. It's true. The West is best today 22c . Sun splitting. 19c in Sligo light rain. We must be in Leinster. Or maybe the Midlands.

Provisional figures show that summer rainfall was above average at all Met Éireann weather stations this year.

Rainfall was 144% of the long-term average for the months of June, July and August. Valentia in Co Kerry was the wettest stationfor both August and the summer overall with the recent storm betty dropping 74mm of rain - half of that amount falling in one hour.

The figurues also show that the mean summer temperature was 15.8C, which is 0.3C warmer than the summer of 2022.

Met Éireann said this summer was, provisionally, the 4th hottest in Ireland after 1995, 1976 and 2006.

June was the warmest month on record when average temperatures exceeded 16C for the first time, breaking the previous June record - set in 1940 - by more than half a degree.

In July, the mean temperatures were below average everywhere.

Some noteworthy high night-time temperatures were reached this summer.

Thirteen out of 25 weather stations recording their highest minimum night-time temperature for summer on record.

Edit - Article states June was the warmest month on record, I think that is an error and they meant June was the warmest June on record? @sryanbruen

Oh god, best of luck to them trying to get people to believe in that! 4th warmest on record (since 1900). In some world, I wish June did not happen so this pathetic "summer" could be put in its place.

Yes they mean the warmest June on record. The warmest month on record is still well and truly August 1995 followed by July 2013.

4th warmest summer on record, will Met Eireann fluck off, one of worst summers on record if they come out with statements like that no wonder you have climate deniers.

I never remember a summer so bad with hardly any 'beach' days.

Yes you can go anytime we even do in winter but a real beach day is 23+ degrees and they barely existed this summer.

I know June was nice but wasted really with all the kids still in school.

Dublin/East I think had the worst weather this summer.

Why don't they have in their statement that it rained for something like 28 out of 31 days in July!

Lies, damned lies and statistics.

Heavy showers yesterday and a dull start today.

Leitrim.

It was the 4th warmest here. June was the hottest then July and August had no very cool weather. It rained lots but it was around 18 to 20c most times and the cooler night was an isolated 5c. Most Summers we have lots of days 14c in June and even July. This Summer it was over 20c in June every day nearly so already that's 6c above.

Also remember it was the hottest Summer on record as we headed into July. So temperature wise it was high up there. Weatherwise low down.

Maybe Sryan will have the stats. But I don't believe that August had loads of cool days - in Leinster at least.

In Dublin it got to over 20º on around 14 days and most other days were around 18º or 19º.

There was no heatwave but even without the 'warm' nights it would still probably have been a normal month temp wise.

August was so windy in Dublin that even if it did reach 20C, it certainly didn't feel it. Also I found that many days were only 14-16C all day, then the temperature rose in the late evening around 8pm. So yes, 19-20C was recorded, but that is not at all representative of the day as a whole.

Glorious day today up here in the far North, after a foggy start.

To be better tomorrow and Monday apparently. Perhaps no rain until Thursday!

Bring it on.

The number of rain days ranged from 15 days at Casement Aerodrome, Co Dublin to 29 days at Newport, Co Mayo. The number of wet days* ranged from 12 days at Phoenix Park, Co Dublin to 22 days at a few stations. The number of very wet days* ranged from 1 day at a few stations to 6 days at Knock Airport, Co Mayo.