Autumn 2024 - General Discussion

New season , same weather :)

More misery, more rain, more wind, less daylight, YAY. Month 5 of Autumn starting, just another 6 more months, untill winter starts. YAY.!

It's been Autumn since July 2023! Cloudy calm morning in South Wicklow but pleasant enough. Going to get the lawns cut today hopefully, start of hedge and tree cutting season now too so lots of outdoor work to be done. Hopefully the relatively dry trend for the east continues.

I shouldn’t be disappointed but I am. The “heatwave” is actually a glorious late summers day yesterday and the grey slate and the breeze today.

But at least it's more appropriate for the season! 🤣

Went to Howth today, brilliant new playground for the kids.

A very meh day weather wise very dull and grey but on plus side not windy thankfully and mild enough that a light jacket did the job.

As evening set ina mist rolled in from the sea.

Was in Howth today aswell ,doing the walk around the coastal area. Was very dull would have been lovely on a sunny day. But at least it was dry.

I love autumn as well but proper autumn. Not the grey slate muck that's become year round default in this country.

We had two weathers today in Tralee. I sat out for a sunny breakfast this morning and then got two washes dry on the line. Very warm,alternating between hazy and direct sunshine. It was only fabulous. Got cloudier as the day went on but still very warm and then at 5PM came the rain. The real, horrible Irish rain and you could feel the temperatures drop simultaneously. Slate grey after that, mini heatwave over. So frustrating that summer 2024 can't deliver more than 2/3 days max and will autumn 2024 be the same? I very much hope not. I'm not a fan of RTE but going to tune into RTE evening weather to see how this week pans out according to their charts. Hoping to head up west at the end of the week but won't do it in the usual muck weather. Not at Irish hotel /restaurant prices.

Incredibly humid evening in South Wicklow. The patio is wet with condensation and walls of the house are wet to the touch. We had this during the warm weather last September too, makes sitting outside a little unpleasant.

Dull morning, mild. Looks like being a damp day and a pretty non-descript week of weather ahead, N Kildare

MT's forecast always seems to be the opposite of what weather apps are saying for later in the week (Not intended as a criticism of them). I guess it's a timing thing.

Some snow/Glaciers on the Swiss Alps yesterday from 32,000 ft

Sounds lovely, and Howth is one of my favourite parts of Dublin. Even on a dull and cool day the place is usually crammed. Funnily enough it seemed warmer yesterday than Saturday, even though it was sunny on Saturday.

desperate morning in the city centre. Plenty of tourists around all looking happy to be “escaping” the heat and sun in Europe.

Eased off to a drizzle here now

Quite the soaking

Total 23.8mm

Sunny here in carrick but going into the rain as I'm heading Dublin for a few days

clear skies now typical after such a gloomy day

A fairly chilly start to the day. Damp also. Made the mistake of walking the dog through some fields. Socks are ringing, toes are frozen.

11c, N Kildare

Great the one time I'm in Dublin and it's warm back home ffs lol 😆

WOWSERS, It's cold out there this morning. Hands are numb back from a walk. 10c, but feels a lot cooler than that in the fresh breeze.

Grim start to September, some poster in here predicted a heat wave lmao. Think I’ll be booking a sun break in October.

it’s cold and wet today.

it's freezing if you're on a bike, would need hat and gloves. can't believe i was sunbathing a couple of days ago. at least friday looks like it'll be a fine day.

As you say we'd need to see Stats, but I would say there have been more good than bad. Being a teacher, the return to school over the years is something that really stands out in my memories. And until the Irish climate nose dived over the last 2-3 years, I think Septembers were generally the better month of the May-October period. I remember often being grateful for warm, dry weather, helping us all settle back into the first term and shorten the winter a little. I even rememeber claiming that I'd prefer better Septembers to Julys and that was generally the pattern.Not all of September and not quite every year, but enough that I remember. All gone to pot these last few years though. You really would hope these years are just a very bad blip and not the start of a long term pattern.