Summer 2024 - General Discussion

An important note of context to add is both June and July had notable cold first halves that those monthly means won't show. The second halves of both have been much warmer and I think it's rather impressive (and not, as you expect it given the times we live in) that they skewed the monthly means as much as they have, particularly in June's case which was basically average in the east rather than cool or warm. Like look at the mean daily temperature departures for July at the end, it's literally a case of two halves.. first half full of blue down spikes and the second half not much blue but the red was not enough to skew the cool first half to average in this case.

2020 and 2023 recorded the exact same max temp as 2024.

24.1C Phoenix Park 16th July 2020

24.1C Malin Head 7th July 2023

24.1C Moore Park 31st July 2024

2021 and 2022 were exceptional with 30.8C at Mount Dillon on 21st July 2021 (or 31.3C at Castlederg on the same day if considering Northern Ireland) and 33.0C at Phoenix Park on 18th July 2022. They should be considered in their own ball park.

Mind these are only out of the 25 synoptic stations, always the chance a climate station recorded higher like Durrow 31.2C on 22nd July 2021.

That makes it 3 out of the first 7 months of the yr coming in below average. Or 4 out of the last 13 months. Funnily enough all starting with the letter J.

Overcast with stratus pig gloom, air is very moist and clamy, with a gusty wind, impossible to sit outside comfortably with the gustsd blowing into your face, yesterday started off beautiful with sunshine and warmth but clouded over very quickly with high level misery followed by lower level pig gloom and misty drizzle and sporadic bursts of rain, almost like a tease, as if to say this is what you could have, but you cant. Horrendous summer, i cant repeat it often enough, the fact that at no stage it has settled down in 4 months, is just woeful.

Have to rename them so and we'll be sorted ! Start all with the letter M or S ...like warmer months of May and September , not the shop ;)

Beautiful day yesterday and today in NCD . Clouded over a bit this afternoon late but think it's clearing again now to give us a nice evening again outside .

Very nice to get some real warmth and sunshine at last while not the extremes they are getting on the continent .

Might be a tad wet later..especially in the west