Summer 2024 - General Discussion

what’s worse is when the tabloids link some stupid headline to met eireann but when you read what Met Eireann have said it’s nowhere near the stupid headline. And a lot of people just read headlines.

One other weird thing I’ve noticed is some crazy reference to planes spreading some sort of spray which makes it rain and cloudy??!? What sort of bat **** crazy stuff is that.

I'll put my one out too .

We'll turn it around :)

Shows how bad things are in this country, as my last memory of a heatwave in Ireland is July 2013. if memory serves me right we had three weeks of temperatures regularly in the mid 20s which is pretty impressive by our meek standards.

Dull, cool, dry, and fairly calm in Maynooth today. I hope to get my grass cut before it rains later. I thought I'd have the weekend to do it, but looking less likely now.

THe unfortunate thing seems to be the pattern is stuck as it was in 2011 and some other years. Lows have nowhere else to go as they are mainly sliding over the High over the Atlantic bringing their rain to Britain and the rest of the bits and pieces of boring rain to us. As it is Summer the pattern of weather usually stays the same for a few weeks. Hence the whole Swithins Day thing.

e.g. In Summer you rarely get all different energy and activity in the Atlantic like Winter. A good storm might actually help waken up things as the whole thing seems sleepy yet miserable presently. Next week there is one possible so maybe a wet couple of days might bring something drier after at least briefly but I'm clutching at straws.

Strength in numbers! Surely the heat cannot keep trapped much longer over in Eastern Europe and the Balkans…

I see there was a minimum nighttime temperature of 29c in Croatia this week. Much and all as this weather is annoying, wouldn’t fancy that.

Screen caps of the daily observations at Dublin Apt on 17th July 2021 and 11th August 2022, some of the best summer days of recent memory. Absolute bliss

17th July had 21C here at 8am… we can't even achieve that at 3pm in July 2024.

Didn’t see the post sounds like they’re referring to Cloud seeding which does exactly that.

It's to lash on Monday

wearing two layers of jumpers indoors today, it’s actually insane how cold it is

I raise you all Dun Laoghaire, just after lunch.

Have a look at Athenry. It is leading a charmed life in comparison to July 2023 in terms of rainfall.

Athenry got a whopping 224mm of rainfall in July 2023. Granted July 2023 was the wettest on record but that was incredible rainfall after the warmest June on record. In comparison Athenry has only recorded 11mm thus far and it is unlikely to get much more by halfway through the month.

Mace Head also shows similar - 6mm so far in July with 111mm last July in total.

I thought after the warmest May 2024 on record that we might get much more rainfall in July. Our weather is fascinating.

I’m quite confident of a decent second half of the month and a good August too, oul St Swithin will be kind to us this year after what he did last ‘summer’. The pattern in mid July is almost always a good indication for the second half of the summer.

Some posters say you wouldn’t know the difference between January and July because it’s 15 degrees. I don’t agree with that. You would still know it’s Summer. It feels different to me and this evening I had to take off my top and walk in a t shirt. It had a close feel about it. That would never happen in January. We’ve only had 2 wet days out of the last 73 days in my area and Tuesday was one of them. It has been remarkably dry in many parts of the country.Yes temperatures have been below what they should be for the most part, but you could still get out and get things done most days.And there’s still the chance things might warm up right until the end of September. In fact the last warm day last year was on October 10th, we had 23 degrees even as late as that, so there is a lot of hope.