Summer 2024 - General Discussion

Hi all - question for the gurus here as I have no emprical data to support my observations.

Has the westerly winds been much more predominant in the last few months and more intense. I cycle the same route to work and a lot of it is open and directly west. It just seems like the last while (maybe from April??) that the westerlies have been much more a factor. I didn't notice them much at all during Autumn and winter but lately it seems non stop and they are strong. Anytime its feels bad I check met and its 25-29 kph gusting 45-50 so when trying to maintain 20kph on the bike it feels very unpleasant.

I could be totally wrong but curious - maybe I'm just detriorating and getting weaker????

really windy in dublin, and it's a cold wind! supposed to get 18/19c and no clouds later but i find it hard to enjoy when getting pelted with that wind. we all need to light a candle and ask jesus or whatever to sort this out and give us a few weeks of summer weather please.

as I said reading the comments here the bar is so low on our expectations. Drove through lot of the midlands yesterday. It was frequently raining (showers) always windy and cloudy a lot of the time. A cursory look at how people are dressed tells you all you keep to know and the lack of flowers hanging baskets etc really noticeable. I get that it isn’t Spain or Portugal here and I get that we don’t get good weather and I get people’s perceptions of what’s cold v warm are varied but this by any metric is a very poor summer.

At least if there's heavy rain tomorrow and Saturday in the East I can look at radar. These days it's raining constantly but too fine to show on radar

Weather still seems cool out to week 3 of July then warmer but still unsettled and cool again after that.

Hopefully August will save the Summer. For once.

17c down in the low Ark today,breezy

A whole 5c less than yesterday,quite noticeable but at least dry with the sun out,you can do stuff

Last night resisted the need to put the heat on but we all put blankets on us. Today the temperature of the house has gone down another degree. Windy again. By Sunday night it's forecast to be 5c so maybe we will have to buy oil. Gave the daughter hot water bottle last night as she was frozen. Its even colder than June with the wind. Wonder what the beach looks like.

Similar to yesterday albeit a bit more windy this morning, currently 20c in fair weather, nothing to complain about in south Dublin.

Leeward side of the Wicklow mountains favoured :

Great afternoon and evening out on the sea front yesterday ..blazing sun and temp reading 21 but absolutely frost bitten out walking .Had fleecy zipped right up and rain jacket but needed a hat (which I hadn't brought , of course !) in July !

Not too bad today NC Dublin but very windy .Have gotten two machine loads dry and have a third going out on the line !

I am going to put out my Child of Prague statue as dominatinmc mentioned because I just can't take this chilly weather any more 🥶.

Not finding the house cold but wearing socks and long sleeved tops which is weird as don't usually from May to October .

Heard Ivan Yates giving out about the Maynooth study aired about the increased likelihood of 33/34 degree heat events in Ireland .

Don't think anybody in their right mind at this stage could disagree that we are very much in the grip of global.warming , but I totally get people's annoyance with that report at this time .

Not the fault of the poor researchers , they are entitled to.publicise their very important study but really like, read the room , timing wise .

How about a study /commentary as to why our summers are increasingly wetter and /or colder ?

I went for a walk at lunch today and that's exactly what I thought - today is a typical summer's day in Ireland. Cloudy but some blue skies with the sun peeping out every so often + bit of a breeze + roughly room temp (felt around 17/18) + maybe a shower in the distance to keep you honest 😉 + bright until well after 10pm…bonus. To me it just felt normal. A heatwave would be nice but it is always an exception.

Time for a run now, hopefully stays dry. This July is much less wet already than last year.

in June it was wait until July and here we are…..

Perhaps they released that report at this time to make the point that just because we have had a number of cool weeks doesn't mean climate change isn't real. If they had released that report during the a heat wave they would have been accused of having an agenda . They would have been damned either way imo.

Ye I can see that warning being cancelled

Grand day in Dublin despite the wind. Got a good long fast walk in and felt like an Irish summer's day. Nice evening too.

LIke 30 days ofthe past 34...much colder than average in Sligo. At this rate the new average will be cold. This time last year we had had about 20 warm sunny days by now this year 2 or 3.

Just got to sligo town. Its actually freezing in the wind!

spend the last week camped out at a beach surfing and beach combing. I’ve so many layers on. Full wet suit, boots, gloves and hoody when in the surf. It’s not being kind right now. Can’t sit out to dry off.
on the plus side I’m realising how handy the boot of the car can be for shelter.

Fair play!TY

Another absolutely dire day in Tralee. Relentless rain and cold all afternoon from 1pm, a clearance now but what good is that at this hour! I personally may not have to rise at the crack of dawn at the moment, but many people do. So fine weather in late evening after a completely shite day, not much good to most folks!

I'll apologise to nobody for frequent escapes abroad. It costs me a fortune, but my money, I earned it! I just happen to be somebody who cannot hack the dire Irish summers without frequent escapes and if were not for elderly relatives depending on me I wouldn't endure Irish summers at all. Some day, hopefully!

I'm delighted to see people escaping from this crap and you can understand why Micheal O Leary is laughing all the way to the bank. Especially now with the carry on by Aer Lingus.

There is no way on earth today was like a summers day!

I was outdoors for most of it and the wind was unreal!

Now it was nice to have a bit of sun and the sunglasses where on when it came out.

Then they came off when rain showers came and rain jacket went on. I actually just kept rain jacket on for most of time as buffer against the wind!

Yesterday was a mad day.

Started off raining and I was like FFS as heading to beach in Wexford!

When we got there at 12pm it was like a different country sunny and the heat in sun! It was also so calm, not a whiff of a breeze.

I had to plaster on the factor 50, it was glorious. Came back home and not half as nice. It's true what they say about the sunny south east!

Can always rely on Wexico 😎