Summer 2024 - General Discussion

What did we get for a national high temp today folks?

The sky has a thundery look to my North, towards county Leitrim. Dead calm and feeling very humid now. Very pleasant.

I think Churchtown is in a very sheltered, enclosed location in the back of someone's garden. It almost always reads 1º or 2º higher than everywhere else.

It probably did get to 28º (Phoenix Park almost got to 27º) but would not have been representative of the wider area.

Wow over a 10c difference between the warmest and coolest spots

But the thing is that the 28° at Churchtown would be representative of the wider area as the environ is literally full of gardens and man made ground and it's also where a lot of people live and therefore experience those temperatures, in contrast to other reporting stations that are located in sparsely or non populated rural locations with nobody around to experience the temperatures in those places.

The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect explains why it would be warmer in more built up areas and it's important that temperatures in built up areas are recorded as official records.

For the sake of having official weather stations located only where there is little influence from humans, a suitable location in somewhere like Marlay Park would be interesting in setups like today's.

There was an official weather station in Merrion Square in the past, I'm unsure if it still exists but that would have been very much in an urban area however it's so far east in the city that sea breezes would generally keep it a good bit cooler than areas further west and south of the city.

Very cloudy today in Dublin although still very warm. Wouldn't be surprised if we see some rain later

Cool, wet, drizzly and (obviously) very humid in Trim, Meant

Little over 2 months to go till the next Autumn/ winter season.....👍

Won’t be long now until it’s dark at 4

We had a few decent days in the middle of May plus the bank holiday weekend was lovely as was this weekend…hopefully we get it being a little more consistent for July

Back to October today.

Looking forward to June again.

Hopefully before July.

A couple of big weeks coming up for me.

I can only cut my silage from July 1st due to environmental scheme conditions, so I'm hoping for dry and preferably sunny weather.

Then on July 8th I'm getting married in an outdoor ceremony.

It's summer in Ireland, so what could possibly go wrong 🤔

Some beautiful sunshine has arrived into West Mayo. Nice evening ahead