Summer 2024 - General Discussion

Glorious morning in Cork. Although it's only about 18 degrees, I'd take weather like this for the rest of the summer instead of any heatwave.

we regularly have had reports of warmest months on record in ireland in recent times and it gets an article here and there, nothing major. there's no conspiracy here so that you have to pay more tax, as much as you all like to think there is.

Ha ha, if Eamonn is happy with me, then it's all worth it 😀

The warmest month on record recordings get an article in each news outlet.

Climate change however is kind of a big deal so RTE having a section on it is understandable.

Rained here last n8ght but windy n cool today. 14.6c. This is a fake Summer. It's called Summer but it's a fraud. It could be any month.. any season. Apart from the fact its bright till 11pm. The nights here have been as cold as Winter and days only 13 or 14c bar 6 days since June 1st.

The seasons are getting less defined as each year passes.

In the future I would guess Ireland will have one type of weather all year long. Mild and damp.

Also a Split day today

Winter in half the country and late Spring in the rest

In terms of running averages, Dunsany and Claremorris are having their coldest opening third to July since 1990.

Casement and Dublin Apt having their coldest since 2004. Cork Apt and Belmullet a bit more recent since 2011 and 2020 respectively.

slowly brightening up in N Kildare 15°c

Still wet for some. Good to see the sun is shining elsewhere

Northwesterly winds have often been coming long-fetched from the North Atlantic which has seen a rapid cooling in recent weeks around western Europe forming almost a horseshoe shape of cold and is completely different to the past two years.

It's a bit different to some other poor summers we've had in that it's largely been +NAO since mid-June with a strong Azores high/Icelandic low when normally a poor summer often is associated with Icelandic or Greenland blocking high pressure. This may be the reason why it hasn't been exceptionally wet despite being as cool as it has been.

You're sweating in 18 degrees, what would you be like if the mercury hit 25 degrees or higher?

I was digging and planting trees. I was also fixing a stone wall that had collapsed. I probably wouldn't do that work in 25C+

Had a lovely sea swim near Spiddal since then so it's all good.

In the uk it'd been the coldest early part of July since 1996 and before that 1978