Summer 2024 - General Discussion

I mentioned it to some family who have some loose items at their house, they pointed out that met.ie are just saying the winds will be 'fresh'.

An average wind of 60kmph with gusts to 80 is definitely fresh!

Was hazy/foggy early this morning, but lovely now that its all burnt off. Beautiful out.

Calm before the storm by the sounds of it.

This is a rather depressing outloook below from Boards weather expert M.T. Cranium. So sadly it looks like Summer 2024 is going to be pretty poor at best. Maybe it's time we stopped using seasons in Ireland, as give or take a few spells here and there, it's pretty much between 5 and 15 degrees all year round.

Wednesday, 26 June, 2024 __ Forecasts for Ireland

TRENDS: Today will mark the end of this brief warmer spell, and from Thursday into early or perhaps even mid-July, it will be rather cool again with temperatures on average about 1 to 2 deg below average. It will be showery (after today) but rainfalls will be below average in east and south, near normal in west and north. Sunshine will be generous today but limited to about 50-75 per cent of normal thereafter.

We are 26 days into summer. Anyone suggesting they know what will happen weather wise for the next two months are delusional.

I think you can predict most Irish Summers by saying it will be cool and mixed a lot but with also some dry warm days.

I remember learning one time that in an average Summer week in the West of Ireland there will be 4 days where rain will fall with the other 3 dry but maybe not all sunny. Some weeks we get 4/3 while others it's 5/2 or 6/1. 1985 was 7/0 most weeks.

In any case there are 2 storm systems coming to the Northwest in the coming week which is strange in Summer. However unlike Winter these storms should not bring 50mm of rain just strong breezes and 80kph gusts and 15mm of rain.

May and June have been very dry in the west. Just like in 2023. I think there is a pattern emerging. I have absolutely no complaints about May and June 2024. Loads of outdoor activities and light.

Even Dunsany is showing only 29mm for June. The average is 71mm.

May and June 2024 will have been one of the driest on record at Dublin Airport. Currently it's the 4th driest on record (though May/June 2018 were a different level altogether).

Yes, I've recorded the same here (Loughlinstown numbers below), 2018 was drier in May, June alright, its an improvement on last year for sure. Hard to imagine we'll get a repeat of July - December 2023 again which was horrendous but unusually bad.

Very warm now in Dublin city centre...lots of people sitting out having lunch making it feel very continental

Not very dry around Leitrim I can tell you.

Warm here in carrick but rain is coming in from the west ,warm rain as well

I might be wrong but I don't think that's correct. June 2023 had hotter days and a much longer spell of heat. I think we hit 29C in June but I would need to check. It was the warmest June on record and the 5th warmest summer ever.