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Summer 2024 - General Discussion

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  • #2522
    appledrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,008 ✭✭✭appledrop


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122462407#Comment_122462407

    Oh I know I don't rely on them but as the national weather forecaster are they not mortified when it's lashing rain outside and their own reports show this yet they don't bother changing the local graphic🤷‍♀️



  • #2523
    wazzzledazzle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭wazzzledazzle


    A nothing morning. Rain has cleared, it’s grey, little to no wind, 16c N Kildare



  • #2524
    pad199207
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,209 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Status Orange - Rain warning for Donegal, Galway, Mayo

    Met Éireann Weather Warning

    Heavy and persistent rain with strong and gusty southerly winds, especially in exposed areas.

    Impacts

    • Flooding expected
    • Very difficult travelling conditions
    • Poor visibility

    Valid: 00:00 Monday 05/08/2024 to 10:00 Monday

    05/08/2024

    Issued: 09:11 Sunday 04/08/2024



  • #2525
    KanyeSouthEast
    Registered Users Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭KanyeSouthEast


    hello from glorious Malaga. Beautiful blue skies glorious sunshine actual proper hot weather. No pretending no making the best of it no dress appropriately just pure unadulterated bliss for anyone who loves sunshine heat outdoor living.



  • #2526
    acequion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭acequion


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122462531#Comment_122462531

    You timed that very well if you've just arrived there.😀 You got the good weather here as a taster before going to real heat. I love when that happens to me. I was delighted not to miss that rare few days we got here, but today it feels like a distant memory as it's just miserable, nothing much you could do today without the raingear. Might brighten up later but temps back down to teens.😒 I'm off myself next weekend for my last blast of real summer, can't wait!

    Enjoy! 😁

    o



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  • #2527
    champchamp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭champchamp


    Has there been a fine weekend this Summer yet, any of the nice weather seems to have landed midweek?



  • #2528
    highdef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,276 ✭✭✭highdef


    I don't recall any full weekends that were very nice throughout.

    Does anyone know what the pink hue is to the South West of Ireland, currently viewable on the visible satellite imagery?

    https://www.sat24.com/en-gb/country/ie

    Post edited by highdef on


  • #2529
    sryanbruen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,629 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122462407#Comment_122462407

    I think it's more the principle of them being there. We may be well-informed ourselves on the forum but not everybody reads it and the average Joe will look at them as their forecast unknowingly that they're computer generated. You see it all the time with the UK audience on places like Twitter when some try to disprove live temperature recordings from stations and using their weather app, which is a forecast and not live temperatures, as "evidence". Also get a lot of "but your app said this X which is completely different to what you said on Y".

    The Met Office even modify some of the computer generated forecasts themselves for specific locations manually to make some more accurate which it wouldn't surprise me if somebody out there used this as a conspiracy that they manipulate the data for an agenda. Obviously Met Éireann don't do that.

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  • #2530
    Jizique
    Registered Users Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Jizique


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122462379#Comment_122462379

    What part?

    Not a bad day at all, light shower around 10 but been out on bike since then and it is a bit overcast but no rain



  • #2531
    Thunder87
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭Thunder87


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122462531#Comment_122462531

    Similar here in Barcelona, 30C with clear cloudless skies. 15C with mist and drizzle when I left Dublin early this morning



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  • #2532
    Hippodrome Song Owl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    Light rain from around 4am in Lucan. Starting to dry now, but still some drizzle. Grey and, of course, windy.



  • #2533
    squarecircles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭squarecircles


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122462866#Comment_122462866

    YEP and all the native folk going about enjoying it without having to pay 350 euro a night to stay inside 4 brick walls.

    the hotels in Barcelona are really starting to take the piss with their prices. Imagine 7 nights in a standard hotel now costing 4000 euro for a single room.



  • #2534
    orchidkey
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭orchidkey


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122462810#Comment_122462810

    Obviously Met Éireann don't do that.

    Why don't they? Is that not their job to forecast the weather? If the computer models are not accurate, then they should be adjusting the graphics and forecast maps manually to be more accurate.

    I'd be shamed working there, looking at the ME website saying one thing and look out the window at the lashing rain.



  • #2535
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,918 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    A miserable day here in Meath, cool, wet and windy. I'll be opening the Autumn short range and FI threads earlier this year than usual on the 27th of August as I'll be in southern Spain from the 28th of August. I'm counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds till that plane takes off from Dublin Airport.



  • #2536
    .Donegal.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭.Donegal.


    I think this is the first orange warning since the May orange warning for thunderstorms. Not much has happened this summer.

    Currently raining

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  • #2537
    squarecircles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭squarecircles


    Next weekend will be similar, with the remnants of Hurricane Debbie dumping its rain and wind on us. Christ on a bike, will it just end, for the love of Jereselum, make it stop.

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  • #2538
    Dazler97
    Registered Users Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    ON the sligo train back to carrick and half the passengers are Leitrim fans , they won over Tyrone by a single point , at least the weather stayed dry for the match, I'll be heading back into rain once I get home , fairly mild here in Dublin lovely and pleasant at least



  • #2539
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,040 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    No rain this afternoon in Greystones but it is gloomy/dark and breezy. Perfect day for watching Olympics!



  • #2540
    appledrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,008 ✭✭✭appledrop


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122462851#Comment_122462851

    North County Dublin. Rained here from 3am till 12pm and then again from 2pm-4pm.

    It wasn't heavy rain but you wouldn't be out and about in iteverything outdoors all saturated.

    The 8 year old was happy though he got a cinema day and plenty of screen time at home.

    The best bit of all for him was not having to put suncream on😁

    There was days last week when it had to be applied 3 times!

    Every cloud has a silver lining.



  • #2541
    Dazler97
    Registered Users Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    Its roasting out here in carrick 18c house is actually colder



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  • #2542
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,004 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Escaped the rain here in Kerry apart from some short lived patchy drizzle a few times, blasts of sunshine also making it feel quite warm. Was out on the coast and rummaging in rivers, it is a while since I felt such a warm humid breeze ,getting up to 21C and still very mild at 19.3C but quite dull now. I was glad I had a back pack to put my light jacket in and to carry a bottle of water which I needed, warm in the waders today 😁 but worth it finding a few nice old bottles.



  • #2543
    pauldry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,100 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Escaped rain in Shannon today and Limerick. Just windy n warm. Around June 21st to July 31st is peak Summer if you ask me. Whatever happens now 2024 will go down as a cool and poor Summer as only 3 weeks of August till kids start going back to school and no signs of anything settled



  • #2544
    Kutebride
    Registered Users Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭Kutebride


    Escaped all the rain in GAA HQ today. Lashed all the way in from Meath. Must have got passed the precip line when we parked.

    Dark, breezy and dry in Meath this evening.



  • #2545
    alentejo
    Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭alentejo


    Loving the wall to wall sunshine in Portugal. Dreading returning to Ireland.

    Love Ireland, but the weather can really wear you down!



  • #2546
    glightning
    Registered Users Posts: 575 ✭✭✭glightning


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122462762#Comment_122462762

    Probably tropical storm Debby setting its sights on Ireland for next weekend! 🤣

    Joke of course.



  • #2547
    doyle55
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭doyle55


    I didn't know it would be so warm tonight.



  • #2548
    Thorny Queen
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Thorny Queen


    I know it might be too early to tell but what is weather looking like for South Donegal on Saturday? Having a children's party and not sure whether to replan for an indoor event or not. Still traumatised by the lashing rain today. Would have got saturated with hypothermia!



  • #2549
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,918 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    Very warm night here in Meath, close to 20C. It's warmer now than it was during daylight.



  • #2550
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,201 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Wet evening in Galway but my god is it exceptionally mild. Shannon airport reporting 20°c at 00:30, very rare sight, especially given it was not a particularly hot day.



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  • #2551
    .Donegal.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭.Donegal.


    Raining non stop all day



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