Summer 2024 - General Discussion

there's so little sunshine this year that my tomatoes just wont ripen or kick on. very unusual for them to take this long. i wonder if the cloudier wetter climate that is predicted here will have big impacts on food production, probably.

Farming here and grass growth is very slow. It's very tight and I'm not overstocked. Some farmers are already feeding silage. Already national milk supply is back 10-15% on top a a drop of nearly 8% last year. Silage supplies are back as the peak growth months of may and June have been poor. It's the cold air and the lack of sunshine that has really hit growth of everything

I'm not really at all surprised it's a cold Summer this year. Sure our Summers are different every year. Last year was a wet one and a few warm ones before that and since 2015 was the last cold one and 2011 this year is another cold one that's kinda been due. We are NOT the Mediterranean lest people forget.

Yep, as soon as it was here, was gone just as quick and has brightened up.

I have given up with my garden for this year.

Even the weeds i'm getting out by the roots are taking the pi$$ out of my by popping up every coule of days.

Still though, i have a couple more foreign trips in the Sun to look forward to before the year closes and will be sure to post regular pictures of random Palm trees while you all sit in gloom come september

I really like the sound of Madeira. It says average high/low in July is 26/21. Not bad at all. Tell us more.

I went to Greece last September and I baked in 30C+. It was a diving holiday so I was able to escape the sun. However what bothered me the most was the state of the sea life in the Med. I notice it every time I go there. The Med sea is dying. Various factors at play e.g. pollution, climate change etc. The reefs are definitely getting bleached with the sun and there is less and less sea life every time we go. Saw the same in the Red Sea.

Lovely sunny, warm, windy, dry day.

Getting anxious that I'm not hanging out any clothes at the moment.

My daughter who is 9 woke up in the middle of the night one night last week complaining that she was too warm, she wasn't sick or anything. Think my kids take after me with their dislike of heat, not that's it been too warm of course.

It it my imagination or does this summer feel like 2008?

It is 3c warmer here in the Southeast than met Éireann said and 5c warmer than MT's forecast

Saturday it rained all day when it was supposed to clear by lunchtime and monday it cleared in the morning when it was supposed to rain all day

This is the 3rd 20c+ in the SE in a row

Why are our weather forecasters getting it so wrong ?

Over cast here in carrick 16c some nippy nights ahead with 8c

Eh ye we have , last month well for me temperatures didn't drop below 17c and that's quite tropical , I know it's not a tropical night if its 20c or higher but I found it fairly warm

Travelled over to Enniskillen today and the wind would cut you in half. Feels like a day in March.

It was a lovely afternoon and evening for golf. I actually like playing with a bit of a breeze. It brings a bit more judgement into it. Just one quick shower and just one ball in the water...

on the commute to work this morning mental seeing everyone wearing jackets and coats sun shinning but bitterly cool in that wind