Summer 2024 - General Discussion

I would say we are officially in Autumn now, even if the sun and blue skies return the season has changed, the leaves, the colour of sun, height of sun, feeling in the air, length of days etc. Summer 2024 is over.

Agree. As a keen gardener I always find middle of August is the start of a change.(but I love the autumn colours so not complaining) Especially as most of our August's tend to be poor .

Chilly morning. All round pretty crap summer nearing its end. 14c N Kildare

I care diddly squat for total rainfall totals. Only stats that count for me during the summer months is total hours of sunshine. It could stay dry for the whole of the summer, but it is totally irrelevant to me if there is a blanket of cloud and/or a fresh/strong breeze/wind the majority of the time.

On a relative enough point to our weather, i had my annual GP check up fairly recent, did the full shebang with blood tests, all great results with the exception was my Vit D was slightly low…………

Anyway, i'm not one for nagativity in general, it s what it is.

Yep, stats, depending on how you look at them can be as useful or as useless as you want.

You could have the wettest summer of all time….but when did the rain fall. It could rain from midnight until 6am every night, but who cares? Everyone is asleep.

It's been mentioned before regarding some warmest months on record and people are dubiuos to the claims. But a lot of them months it was because of the high minimums, and not the high max temp . As i said, stats

Anyway, i don't want to digress too much

It was 9c yesterday when I got up for work, and 10c this morning. Quite cold when getting out of the shower, so it looks like the heating will soon be on in the mornings.

OH had it on for an hour last night. Think this was 1st time it was on over the summer months.

Yip, summer is gone by the looks of it.

Cool, cloudy, and windy in Celbridge and Maynooth this morning. Very light rain almost continuously - the ground isn't getting wet, but the windows and my hair are. I had to sleep in socks last night, but I would feel crazy putting on the heat this soon.

I'm a heat merchant HippoD. The heat has been on a number of times the last few days.

You can still get sufficient Vit D on cloudy days without direct sunlight. It's UV light that produces Vit D. You may need to spend more time outdoors to get what you need. Fish is also great for it hence the fish rich diets in northern areas.

THE HIGH PRESSURE AND WARMTH IS BANG on schedule from the start of september, as usual, just when iv booked to fly away, this has been a concsistent signal for some time now on the gfs, warm settled weather in some form at the start of next month.

With both Belmullet and Newport and possibly Markree and Finner set to get 200mm of rain this August it's right up there with the worst Summers for everything here in the NW but for number of cold days and nights in June here in Sligo I haven't really seen one the compares. The West did better than us but hopefully it'sjust a one off Arctic Summer for Sligo. Arctic coz Svalbard in the Arctic had a max of 20.6c this Summer and in Sligo wer only at tad more at 23c.

Galway City Council close Salthill car parks due to strong SW and very high tides due 19:15

Yes

The past week has been wetter than normal in Connacht, west Ulster and the far southwest with rainfall accumulations between 130% and 220% of average. It was wettest in the northwest with 52.9mm recorded at Knock Airport, Co. Mayo. It was considerably drier across the rest of the country with rainfall accumulations between 30% and 90% of average. The driest conditions were in the east with just 6mm recorded at Dublin Airport. The week ahead will be unsettled with spells of heavy rain and showers possible. Rainfall amounts will be above normal nationwide as a result, with accumulations between 120% and 285% of average.

Soil moisture deficits (SMDs) are generally between 40 and 75mm in the east and south with some restriction to growth. However, soils are saturated in the west and northwest, with some moderately and poorly drained soils in the northwest waterlogged. With unsettled weather forecast next week, soil conditions will deteriorate further across the west, northwest, and parts of the far southwest with saturated or waterlogged conditions expected. SMDs will remain highest in the east and southeast but will decrease to between 10 and 65mm.

Very autumnal in Cork this evening. On dull evenings like today you can really see the evenings closing in.

The thing about nice weather in Sept is that it's never the same.

The kids are all back in school so no use unless it's weekend and even if it's an absolute scorcher, it gets cold and darker a lot sooner in Sept then at the height of summer.

Now don't get me wrong, I'll happily take a few more nice days, but just saying not the same!

L evn

Thankfully no sign of the predicted strong winds up here in inishowen.

Relatively calm.

Very high tide in Galway just after 7pm. No flooding. Breezy with spitty rain now but not too bad.

In your neck of the woods? We had 9 days above 20c in Cork last Sept. Trace rainfall too and plenty of blue skies.

horrendous.

Mayo.

I also aluded to this a number of posts back. I think as the US cools over the next few weeks this will weaken the jet stream and as a result will allow HP to push over us more. I also think that this might be a trend in some of our summers going forward. The US has been hot this year, and I believe the temp gradient between the US and northern Canada helps to boost the jet stream. If the US continues to see really hot summers, I suspect we will pay the price. Obviously some years will buck the trend.

Feels wilder than anything we had last winter tonight in Galway - wind is howling outside and my cherry blossom tree is bending over in the wind.