Summer 2024 - General Discussion

In the Arctic Summer Ireland is experiencing in 2024 Met Eireann is predicting a max in Sligo on Friday of 10c . Would this be one of the coldest July maxes ever?

Yes. That assumes there'll be persistent rain all day long and it's plausible.

1st July 1997 is the coldest July day of "modern times" and that day wasn't even rainy. It was just cloudy with a very cool northerly airflow.

Some of the maxima that day:

Casement 10.6C

Clones 10.7C

Malin Head 10.2C

Mullingar 10.9C

Indeed. Yesterday was a pleasant day in Sligo but if you weren't standing at the side of a building in shelter or walking really fast it was cold. 16c yesterday was actually one of our best days of June. That says it all really.

Most of the first half of July won't be much better. I suspect the second half will be warmer as its rarely 14c then. (even in 2011 it got up to the 20s a couple of days around July 20th). Hopefully most of the heavy rain has run out as we did have that 9 month wet spell.

Very cold damp summer day.

I'm frozen today! Feels a lot colder than 15C. So dull, but it is dry so still got a few garden jobs done. At least I don't feel guilty spending two full afternoons plonked in front of the Tour de France.

Rain at the moment. 11C.

Leitrim

A cold wet dark evening here in Mayo. Thank god for the Euros's on the tv

June will be the fifth duller than average month at Dublin Airport. If the information I have is correct, then the last time this happened was June-October 2005.

Since 2018, our summers have become rather strange in that although notably good weather is happening more frequently than you'd expect, we're also getting more than our fair share of cloudy weather, with July being the worst offender.

For Dublin Airport, every June since 2019 inclusive has been duller than average except 2021, which was practically bang on average, and 2023, which was very sunny.

Since 2019, July 2020 and 2023 were exceptionally dull and 2022 significantly duller than average. 2021 statistically was a bit of a nightmare dressed like a daydream - 70% of the whole month's sunshine was contained within a 10-day spell, and so, the rest of the month was exceptionally dull. 2019 was a weird one in Dublin in that it was slightly duller than average at Dublin Airport but sunnier than average at Casement.

And for August, 2019 was sunny, 2020 record dull, 2021 would've taken the record from 2020 without the fine spell at the end, though unlike July, the fine spell didn't stop the month from being very dull anyway. 2022 was exceptionally sunny whilst 2023 was dull.

Thank God June is over. 77.7mm rain but very cold and dull. Still 10c as it passes midnight but app has a few 20c days in July. We had 2 in June. 22c or 23c was the max here. Think my own station maxed at 22.6c

The forecast seems useless at the moment, today was meant to be a ' nice day' with some sunshine and 18 degrees.

It was cold in Dublin with a light drizzle for a lot of the day.

Autumnal morning. Cool, Dark, Bleak

10c, N Kildare

ECM Long range not showing anything of substance really. My positivity is waning………We'll know if the next 7-10 days anyway how most of July shoud play out but we could be relying on August at this stage…………

Besides that, all is great

EDIT

MT Gives some hope for second half of July

New month.

Arctic July.

Temperatures for next 7 days for Sligo 13c to 15c still. In July!!! Rain all the 7 days. ALL.

Hopefully Hurricane Beryl can shift things around a bit after this. By week 2 in July days are getting shorter. Could be an even colder Summer than 2011 and 2015 at this rate.

100% cloud cover this morning.

Constant light drizzle.

Cool.

No surprise.