Summer 2024 - General Discussion

amazing to note, thanks all! Looks brilliant

The warmth this past week in East Wicklow was lovely

Very comfortable in shorts and a t shirt,every day hitting 20 or above

Currently still above 20c at 715pm

Always happens when its an Atlantic breeze

This evening is just glorious

Beautiful day in Dublin today, lovely and warm too

I certainly don't think they get consistently hot summers. But they do get hundreds of hours more sunshine than Ireland. London and Paris are very similar in climate with Paris obviously tapping into continental heat more often I agree. Overall, Paris does have the better climate for sure - but not massively so. It's roughly 1600 vs 1800 sunshine hours when comparing London and Paris in a typical year. London sunshine hours is similar to many northern mainland Europe cities such as Berlin. On a hot summer's day, the max temp in Paris will typically be around 2c warmer than London (Typically that is. I appreciate that Paris sometimes will tap into much higher 850's than London).

The South of France is a different story and cannot be compared. You are at the Mediterranean once you are down there with sea temps of 26 to 28c in summer. Completely different climate. Over 500 miles further south than Paris, so of course they get 30c almost every day in summer.

Best way to describe the London climate in summer is a half way house between the crap we deal with and what Central Europe gets.

I agree with your imaginary line though for where proper summers occur south of it!

Sunset in Mayo this evening. Very unusual for it to look like this without a long fetch easterly wind!

Another nice day in Dublin with temperatures getting up to 20º in most of the county again.

This is the 13th day that temps have gotten over 20º in Dublin - so not bad considering that the overall synoptics haven't been amazing.

However we are getting to the stage now where the sun is beginning to lose its strength and good temps get harder to reach unless there is decent weather with warm uppers.

It can obviously stay warm and pleasant and get into the 20s well into September (last year being an example). But unlike from late June to early August where even a bit of sun between the clouds will usually see temps shoot up to comfortable levels, we'll have to finally see some good, settled conditions for that to happen now.