Summer 2024 - General Discussion

Gone cooler now 10c currently

Powers back here after 90 mins , at least I got my dishes done

Quite wet in Arklow atm

No more than a bit of drizzle the last few hours in Greystones with no wind and it was light enough that an umbrella wouldn’t have been needed. Seems like the showers mentioned above avoided us.

Weather Warning for the east has been cancelled

A yellow warning for rain seems to be a bit hysterical to even offer in a weather forecast. It is going to rain reasonably heavily, okay so what? It’s Ireland. Rain should not be included in any yellow or even orange warning, it should only get a red warning when it is going to be biblical.

Breezy and a bit chilly this morning but at least it's sunny.

Atrocious conditions for July this morning in England. Values were just 10C at 11am (1000 UTC) just to the north of London with pouring rain. Rather cool back home but nothing too out of the ordinary for us.

Have been hoping to go for a night's camping up in Glenmalure, County Wicklow on Thursday 11th July. Looks like I might be in luck as I won't be going if its not dry. Things look like improving 2nd half of next week.

Great spot. I enjoyed camping in Glenmalure in my 20s. Some of it is quite remote. But I do remember getting absolutely mauled by midgies one night. No harm to build up the fire before bed and covering the tent in repellent!

Not bad today in Sligo after 12mm of rain last night. 15c and sunny spells.

Rain for month 21mm

IMT for Sligo 12.1c

Shannon had a wetter May than many other stations but it was still just below average. However June was relatively dry at Shannon - 42mm (average = 69mm) = 60%. Gurteen similar. Mean temps were well down alright.

Oranmore: a blob on the radar gave 11 mm of rain in about 15 mins 😮

the only place I hear or see of anyone using words like beautiful or glorious in describing any of this summers weather is here.

whatever about next week another spring morning today cool wet ground and that f-ing breeze.

lest we forget it’s July. High summer.as I’ve said many times before the bar is really low if we’re comparing fast July with this July and somehow appropriating that as some sort of excuse for this summer.

This! I'm baffled by posts about the weather being dry. We've been plagued by heavy rain here in Tralee since the brief fine spell broke down on Friday 28th. Not constant, but I don't think there has been a single dry day since that date and the showers and longer rain spells are very heavy. Here the ground is drenched and my patio flowers, despite my best efforts, are rotting from all the wet. So far it's dry today and I'm taking my chances with a line of washing out, but the sky doesn't look good.

I know last July was atrocious but so far, imo, this July is pretty much its equal and it's definitely colder. Splitting hairs to say which is marginally better or worse.

The bar is very low indeed. We're cursed with a miserable climate of really poor summers and there is no denying that.

Strange, the soil here in west Mayo is extremely dry, ground is rock hard.

Anyways, the charts have all flipped again overnight, lol, couldn't care less any more, passed the point where it doesn't even matter. Complete joke.

Every morning the forecast changes.

But of course the US West coast got their heat dome as expected, which was forecast 2 weeks ago.

Since May 1st "only" 71.6mm of rain has fallen here (Dublin Apt data). You'd expect ~137mm by now. Only 52% of average. Quite dry

2018 however had just 23.9mm in the same period, 17% of the average.