Summer Weather in Ireland
Jul 6th, 2008 | By Bock | Category: HumourIt’s like living on the set of Blade Runner, but without the replicants or the flying police or the interesting Oriental back-room retailers.
This is ridiculous. It’s early July and for the last month, it’s done nothing but piss rain. What’s going on? What the hell is going on? Is this what we’re going to get from global warming? Extra rain?
Today I saw a foreign gentleman taking a picture of the rain, and you know I couldn’t blame him. The last time I saw such rain was in Florida twelve years ago, except that rain was warm, and when it finished bucketing down, the sun reappeared so we could all get on with enjoying the summer.
Here it’s different. It’s cold, and it’s wet, and the streets are filled with resentful, shuffling people narrowing their eyes at each other and scowling at the sky. Do you remember back in May I told you about the holiday weekend?
It was lovely. I took a load of pictures and it seemed like nothing could break the idyll. It was going to be like this forever, but of course, when you start thinking like that, the fates don’t like it. It began to rain, and it hasn’t stopped since, day or night. It’s raining in the fields. It’s raining in the garden. It rains inside the house. It rains in the kitchen. It’s raining in my heart!
Fucking rain is driving me crazy. I can’t plan anything. This weekend, I thought of having a barbecue, but the Met service said NO!
Forget it, Bock, said the weather-man. It’s going to piss all weekend long.
And it did. This is a weather-man of his word.
Shit anyway. I can’t really have it next weekend either because there’s a party in the pub to celebrate the fourth anniversary of Jock’s passing, with music and dancing and drunkenness and food. But that’s on Saturday night. Maybe I could have a barbecue on Friday evening. Hmm. Have to think about that, but of course, it’s all academic anyway, since it’s going to piss rain next weekend too and the weekend after that, and so ad infinitum.
I have decided to issue an edict. From now on, we will no longer refer to this season as Summer. Likewise, Spring and Autumn are formally abolished.
Henceforth in Ireland, people shall speak only of the Bright Winter and the Dark Winter.
I have spoken. Make it so!
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Also on Bock
come to georgia…it rains like hell for 30 mins and then…15 mins after it stops..everything is dry. but then you know the southern part of the usa. 83F here, thunderstorms expected this evening, it’s hot & humid and i love it!
xoxo
(i do like the bright/dark winter concept)
What the hell is going on.This is the coldest summer I have ever seen in Ireland seems like global cooling and flooding to me.And what about the brutal winter across the northern hemisphere last year even snow for weeks in the semi tropical parts of China.I do not believe this global warming shite any longer,there is something else going on.
Clearly, you don’t remember last summer (sorry, Bright Winter). It started raining on the May bank holiday weekend and didn’t stop for three months. I remember well, as it was the first three months of my career break and I spent each morning looking out of the window and imagining what I could be doing if only the bastard rain would stop.
Three months. It didn’t stop for three months, Bock. Come back and complain in another eight or nine weeks.
FOR SALE: 1 large beach towel,(unused)
1 bottle of factor 15 sun cream,(unopened)
Will swap for 1 “When the boys from Killibegs
come rowing home” type wet gear
No Jimmy I was out of Ireland for several years. 3 months rain last summer!!.I mean the summers were not great when I left here,but now it beggars belief.
Savannah: I can’t go to Georgia. The Chimp-Preznit might have me arrested.
William: It’s all about redistribution.
Mr Trousers: All right,then. I’ll complain later, though it would be better if I didn’t need to.
Fenson: How much?
William: I blame the government.
plan on visiting after january 20, 2009, sugar. that particular monkeyboy will be restricted to texas.
I ditto all of that.
I wish you could ditto up a bit of sunshine.
get some waterproofs and just get on with it. It does make BBQ’s more difficult but I’m sure you could fix up a tarp’ to cover the small area required for cooking. If you’re waiting for good weather to do things, you’re wasting precious days
Anyone got a towel?
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shit! we are coming in November, if it rains like that all summer, what will the winter be like? Oh well, we need to get away for a while, rain or not….
Googled “Irish Summer weather” and this is the top result. Well, true to form, and as predicted, it has fucking pissed rain for the last 3 months, culminating in a monsoon type effort over the last 5 days. I never thought I’d say this, but I cant wait for Oct/Nov, cos at least then I don’t expect any sun, and it doesnt lash down all the time. In fact, I seem to remember in Nov Ireland was one of the warmest places in Europe. Some bollox is having some laugh at us I tell ya.
Seán –
I know. We need to do something serious about this. Maybe we need to hire the Beijing Department of Weather- Modification after they’ve finished cleaning up the Olympic smog-filled skies.
I googled Irish weather 2008 and arrived here.
I moved to Ireland in mid June, from Berlin which was 30 degrees at the time.
Now I had lived here in my teens so I knew not to expect nice hot dry summers but this is beyond ridiculous. I’m trying not to talk about it and indeed I’m so truly grateful for any sun that pops through I’m on my knees outside wailing.
I love this post! lol. I sent it to a friend in Ohio. I am living in Ireland and I will tell you this year was a lot worse than last summer. Last summer I did a lot of hiking. I have many photos to prove it. This year we were unable to do anything. Hey, I hang my clothes on the line and you know what my clothes remained wet for days on end. lol. I recently told my friend I now know where the rain god’s live and there is no need for a dance to summon them. ha ha. I am a Stay at home mom so I am always home… If your not living in Ireland than you have no idea how true this is!!!!
938.8 total rainfall in 2008 to date.
1057.4 total rainfall for the year of 2007
May-August 2008 = 525.4
May-August 2007 = 418.0
http://www.met.ie/climate/monthly-data.asp?Num=55
You were sooo right!