Summer 2024 - General Discussion

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.

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

I remember that feeling well.

Deep dive is on YouTube, also the UK has officially reached 30c first time since September 10th last year

I don't mind if it's cloudy as long as it's dry and warm. In shorts all day in the garden.

Cork harbour.

Some sunny spells here this evening. A nice evening in west Connacht

Yip, after being cool earlier, it turned into a lovely afternoon and evening in the far North.

Uhhh, chilly, init, down to 6 degrees tonight, time to turn the central heating on, gas, or in this case oil.

Woeful summer.

I’m of the strong belief that Mother Nature always balances things out.

She’s a serious amount of balancing out to do!

Really getting spoilt by the skies this year. Not as impressive as northern lights recently obviously but still impressive to see, not sure I've seen noctilucent clouds quite this striking round these parts before

After the rare sight of the Aurora in May June brings the also rare sight of nocticulent clouds tonight to Sligo.

Can see it here in carrick on shannon in the distance still bright ish at 00:50

Well said. I often think of the Mrs. Doyle quote when I'm browsing this thread - "Maybe I love the misery".

was a bright clear morning,Cloud spilling in, rain on the way soon, thats the day finished. West Mayo.

Morning outlook is as bad as ever, no sign of any proper summer weather.