Summer 2024 - General Discussion

Your great with these little facts every now and again. I remember that spell of weather well. A hot week followed by a massive thunderstorm to rival the great storm of July 1985.

I think people need to rediscover their childhood perception of summer. We all remember the long summers off school and the dread of them ending. Do any of us remember going into the school and saying "well that summer was a write off weather wise, I didn't do a thing". Of course not. It never mattered. It was just weather. We rarely looked at the forecasts. How come? Because we went out no matter what the weather and made the absolute most of it. We adapted. And you know what, dry weather was essentially superb weather. Even when it rained, we knew where to find shelter or knew what other options were on - and I remember swimming, playing sports, exploring and fishing in the rain and it was fun. I still get a kick out of swimming in the sea on a rainy day in August. The water is warm and I am face down looking at the wonderful colours and sea life anyway. I am still a child at heart and I am still doing childhood hobbies. The weather apps actually make it easier to plan. Embrace your childhood and enjoy the light!

😂 you must have had the best ever Christmas in 2010, I'll never forget it -15 degrees trying to de ice the car before driving home after visiting the relatives on Christmas Day.

They're up with my favourite days of weather too but some others that come to mind:

8th January 2010 - crisp sunny day with plenty of lying snow. Not a large amount but a fine amount to give a wintry landscape. Misty morning too adding to the atmosphere with a severe frost bringing the coldest conditions in Ireland since 1979 at the time.

30th June 2015 - just a lovely fine late June day of unbroken sunshine, also the warmest day of the entire year. However, what makes it stand out was the strange lenticular clouds that put Dublin on the map from this day. Even the wiki's page on lenticular clouds has Dublin's mothership of a lenticular cloud from this day as the first image you come across on it. Dublin gets a fair amount of lenticular clouds due to the prevalent southwesterly wind and the Wicklow Mountains topography but we've probably not seen anything as spectacular as this day.

28th February 2018 - of course the first day of the Beast from the East. The first day of snow lying all day long in Dublin since 2010, long overdue. Was super excited from the red warning leading to school closure (though wish they issued it sooner as I slept overnight 27th missing that fantastic snowfall that was basically a blizzard).

28th June 2018 - equal sunniest day ever recorded. Malin Head 16.5 hrs of sun and Ballypatrick Forest 17.1 hrs of sun, basically the upper end of what's possible in Ireland. Very low humidity (20-40% in places), unbroken sunshine and high 20s, low 30s. The cream of the crop when it comes to summer days in my opinion.

I have plenty of favourites for personal reasons but they're some I've noted for something noteworthy or quirky that made them memorable. We may not have the most exciting or greatest climate but that makes certain periods stand out a lot more that I can never stop reminiscing over. The consistent wet weather since last July up until April was getting very tedious though.

I have strong memories of several summer holidays in the late eighties and early nineties being mired in mist and rain in west Kerry. And I wasn’t happy about it then either. I read a lot of books though.

26 degrees in Helsinki today. Think we’ve got the coldest temperature in Europe today at 16 degrees.

I thought last Saturday, Sunday and Monday were warm and sunny in Galway. Or was it Saturday-Tuesday? I was sea swimming twice and it was beautiful. I have never sun bathed in my life if that's the type of weather you are hoping for.

Ahh childhood memorys of happy summers. Indeed we all have them.

Of course I can recall rain soaked days or weeks, YoungRio with his face pressed up against the window, asking his mother 'Will it ever stop raining?'

I have fond memories of summer 95. I was only 5 at the time but I remember spending the summer holidays outside from 9am until late evening, playing football/curby, exploring the fields, making dens/treehouses and all that craic. It was an exceptionally good summer weather wise.

they couldn't really have taken you anywhere windier and colder in an irish summer lol

I'm happy once it's mostly dry. I don't think it's been too bad so far on that front the past 2 months. So often our summer warmth just means warm rain, so I'd rather cool and dry.

Not a bad day today, just a bit breezy.

I'm over 40 and we never went abroad - our holidays were camping in West Cork and Kerry, occasionally Connemara. I remember a lot of warm wet weather. But we got on with it. I distinctly remember playing on Ballydonegan beach in my swimsuit in the cold rain and wind, turning blue, and several French and German tourists commenting to my parents that they should wrap us up! Not a hope we would agree to get dressed!

I was in my early teens in summer 95 and I have absolutely no specific memories of the amazing summer. I didn't realise it was a special summer and nothing stands out to me about the great weather.

After a breezy and cool morning,the sun has come out and it has turned into a pleasant enough afternoon

This weekend is a good example of opportunity. People earlier in the week were saying the good weather would be over by midweek and "normal service" would resume and that July would be bad etc etc. I naturally took the assumption that the weekend would be wet. I just checked the forecast for tomorrow and Sunday and it looks dry and bright. This happens quite frequently here with the bias on negativity. Yes there will be rain tonight when we are asleep but the weekend looks fine. Game on.

Divine sweet mary mother of god ,could faint glimmers of hope be emerging at the end of the gfs 12z.