Summer 2024 - General Discussion

Indeed evaporative rates are far greater at this time of year that a run of low humidity, sunny days (which have the highest evaporation) can lose a lot of moisture in a short period of time that it doesn't matter if there had been a lot of wet weather prior. Not discounting local variation which happens, the soil moisture deficits don't exactly ring alarm bells for me. Most SMDs range between 20 and 45mm currently, exceptions are Valentia/Malin Head which are almost negative SMD so these places have been rather wet of late. This is confirmed by the stats where Malin Head had 30.9mm in the past 7 days, 177% of what it expects in a typical week at this time of year. Valentia has been near average with 21.8mm (98%) but this is the wettest station in the country. Dublin Airport is the other exception which is showing a deficit of 58mm, significantly above anywhere else. I can attest to this as there hasn't been much rain here as already mentioned.

I think as a result, talking of parched soils is a bit grossly exaggerated and premature. If we were seeing widespread SMDs above 70mm then it'd be a different story.

Remember the hosepipe bans of 2018 and 2020? Summer 2017 to mid-spring 2018 was quite a wet period as was summer 2019 to winter 2019-20. Yet hosepipe bans were issued because SMDs reached record highs in places and we had historic "flash droughts" statistically through spring 2020 and summer 2018. However, they don't compare to now. What we have now is much more normal unless we see a flip in the weather patterns and start getting a few weeks of very sunny and very dry weather.

Great day in Sligo Sunny all day. 16c . Blue skies. Fcuk the temperatures if its sunny. Might be a cool night though. 6 or 7c

Which day in the next week looks best for a day trip to Bray? Warmish and dry, sunshine a bonus.

Today turned out very nice in Tralee, a first nice, sunny day since the brief fine spell nearly 2 weeks ago. What a difference it makes! I'm prepared to go abroad for my doses of heat and sun, so once I get it dry and reasonably mild at home, like today, I can live with that. But constant rain, I just can't live with.

It hasn’t felt like summer that much here since the start of June. Overall hasn’t been that wet, nothing like last July for example but that was extremely wet. Mostly it’s just been cloudy, dry and temps often in the low to mid teens. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Nice day here in Mayo , showers about but dodged them here and nice and warm in the sunshine and light winds.

Cold start to the day but bright. 7c but you can feel a chill. Tomorrow looks like being an horrendous day in the Eastern half of the country with what looks like non-stop rain for the best part of 24 hours,so this thread should be fun 😁

it’s July that’s cold for July

At 6am this morning you could have mistaken it for an late/Early Feb/March morning (without the darkness)

Most of the rain that falls in Ireland is outside the growing season because we have a temperate oceanic climate, it’s the opposite in a continental climate where summer downpours are common. Rain is needed in spring and not winter to get the growth going.

That was an extraordinarily heavy dew last night , more like September than mid summer. What was lasts nights min temp ?

Gorgeous afternoon again today in Galway City, feeling much warmer in a light easterly breeze!

A lovely sunny morning in Maynooth has turned into an overcast afternoon. Feeling much cooler than the supposed 18C in a fairly strong breeze. Still too cold for t-shirt - I tried, but the hoodie is back on!

Greetings from beautiful Belfast

Fresh in Kilcoole today despite the sun due to the breeze. This must be as hot as it gets this summer :(

Just need more off it.

Nice and pleasant in that sun 🌞 its only popped out here in carrick a while ago

Lovely and sunny in Dublin but Jesus just got home off the bike (from the anti car woke protest) and I'm freezing my nuts off. That wind is baltic, hard to believe it can be this chilly well into July.

@the weather professionals on this forum:

Have we any hope of a decent spell on the medium to long range forecasts within the next 4-6 weeks?

This is horrible, bar today in Dublin of course !

Beautiful day today North Dublin City ..actually sitting outside today without a blanket or fleecy !

Didn't feel a bit of it in that breeze! It did clear back up to some lovely sunshine again since 3pm though which was nice.