Notorious Shite Irish Summer weather

Yep this year is really crap, thank fupp for sun holidays

Was it 2007 or 2008 we had 60 odd days of solid rain?

The world is getting warmer though eh. Magically skips ireland though. Yesterday was like winter. Cold, windy and wet. There is nothing to do in the country at the best of times but when the whether is as bad as this its a write off. Bring on September and get the kids back to school and out of our hair.

And a kip of a climate for humidity. Ive been to oz, arizona and egypt. They dont hold a candle to us for humidity. 22 degrees when we do get it is so unpleasent because of the rain.

It would make you wonder how anyone working outdoors like construction, utilities, farmers etc make any headway or money with the constant rain and bad weather.

Last year was nearly as bad the weather broke the start of July and never cleared up.

I was reading a meteorological report that Ireland had only 10 24-hour periods of dry weather from July 23 to July 24. You'd wonder how we get anything built or grown in that

It was cold though after about 4 o clock. Like febuary or march. Before that though the humidity was crazy.

2024 summer is crap but there’s nothing exceptionally bad about it, its been wet but not excessively so-I’d say 2007/8 were much worse. There’s been no real flooding. It’s been cool but nothing really major has happened kind of weather. On the farming front yes things are late but the harvest has started, there’s plenty of silage made and even some hay

yeah if we had 350 days of rain that would be extreme. Thank Christ we don’t.

It does depend where in the country you are. Dublin is looking like sunny intervals all next week. Very little rain forecast. Highs of 19 to 22. Wont complain with that myself.

Only 10 rain free days in 365 days I read a week ago, so more like 355 days of making precipitation of some sort or another

The weather is making people stupid too.

Yesterday in rain a couple somewhat sozzled got off the 15 bus in Templeogue.

Thought the man was going to walk into the traffic. The bus did not dare pull out until the fella had moved back into the footpath.

Not an isolated incident.

It was from some article online, now how true it is I'm not sure but it was claimed to be a report from met eireann

I'm nearly 40, I think I learned by the time I was in my late 20s not to expect anything from August. Even that amazing spell we had in 2018 was over before August came round from what I remember. This summer looks like a write off, not as bad as last July/August but didn't get a single decent spell at any stage. Just an incredibly meh summer basically.

I’d say this summer will track the average for pretty much every thing. Temperature might be slightly lower but not by much

to do with the position of the jet stream, which is kind of like a curtain. We’re in the dark side of that curtain all this year.

I took myself on a week long trip to the Cotswolds early this month. Arrived to a thoroughly wet Bristol Airport, got soaked getting to the car hire location. Drove through the beautiful Cotswold villages for 6 days, rain every day except for one late morning on through afternoon after an overnight and earlier morning of a downpour pounding in the roof of my rental cottage. Lots of people crowding into cafés and tea shops looking out at the deluge, waiting for a moment for it to ease off.

I think the frequency of rain varys a lot as you go west eg it rains less in Dublin than Kerry

I'm in Finland on my sun holiday, very nice 20 to 25 degrees a couple of days of rain, due to crank up to 29 by Friday.

I'm in the lake lands so passing thunderstorms are common.

there was s shower going from sauna to the lake 😀

The last month of good weather where I’m living in Donegal was June 2023. There has been the occasional good day or couple of days since.