Also the rainiest June on record for most reporting stations, and the coolest in many years.
“Very wet , cool and dull,” That’s how MET Ireland describes the month of June, 2012.
“Rainfall was well above average with long-term average (LTA) values ranging from 135% at Valentia Observatory to 286% at Casement Aerodrome.
“Most stations, apart from Valentia Observatory and Belmullet, recorded double or more of their June Average. Of these, most reported it as their highest June rainfall on record, apart from Dublin Airport and Phoenix Park which reported their wettest June since 1993 (19 years) and 2007 (5 years), respectively.
“Days that recorded the highest accumulations were mainly on the 7th and 8th, with Shannon “Airport measuring 41.8 mm on the 7th, its highest for June since 1947 (65 years).
The month’s highest daily rainfall was on the 22nd at Malin Head with 50.9 mm, its highest June fall since 1955 (57 years). The number of wet days (days with 1 mm or more) were above average ranging from 13 at Malin Head to 22 at Knock Airport, with very wet days (days with 10 mm or more) ranging from three at Valentia Observatory to eight at Phoenix Park and Fermoy (Moore Park).
“Mean temperatures were all below average with differences of around 1°C at Johnstown Castle and Malin Head, both reporting their coolest June since 1991 (21 years).
“Most maximum temperatures were recorded at the end of June, with the month’s highest temperature of 23.8°C at Phoenix Park on the 27th, its lowest June maximum in 5 years. Most other maximum temperatures recorded in the South, Southwest and West were the lowest since 2002 (10 years).
“Sunshine was below average with Cork Airport reporting only 93 hours, around half of its average and its dullest June on record. Other stations reported it as the dullest June in a number of years with Dublin Airport and Shannon Airport reporting it as their dullest since 1993 (19 years) and with remaining stations reporting it as their dullest June in at least seven to 15 years.”
http://www.met.ie/climate/monthly_summarys/jun12sum.pdf
Thanks to Juergen for this link
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I’ve just spent a few minutes reading through an article in The Guardian, and then laughed out loud at the final paragraph!
It goes something like this…
Flash floods… blame global warming!
Bitterly cold winters… blame global warming!
Variations in the Jet Stream… blame global warming!
The newspaper then asks whether man-made global warming is putting a dampener on British summers. Peter Stott of the Met Office replies, “This is an open question in terms of research – it is too early days to be able to say,”
Haha, you couldn’t make it up!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/10/extreme-weather-manmade-climate-change?newsfeed=true
Only 93 hours of sunshine in a 30 day month? Phoenix has almost that much in a week! On the other hand, I was wondering if there has been a spectral change in the solar output. It looks to me like “reds” seem, well, redder. Has the solar output shifted a little from the yellow white towards the red?
More likely the sunsets and sunrises are redder because of so much volcanic dust and/or forest fire smoke in the atmosphere. The volcanic dust will reflect and refract the sunlight while the smoke will inhibit it’s ability to reach earth while also changing the sunlights colour.
Actually, I was referring to daytime sunlight, when the Sun is very much overhead, not that it matters.
Found this about a “mysterious” Siberian blast pointing to rapid pole reversal. I never heard about this until now the date of article is 26th of Feb 2012, and blasts were estimated at 9th/12th Feb.
Did anyone hear about this before?
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1563.htm
Scroll down one article to read.
break out the Guinness and the whiskey..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl1NQi_Vit0
sorry its got an ad in front:-(
but enjoy the song..with weather like the recent, there will be a few in this state:-)
umm that clip I posted isnt exactly the same as my cd version…it has the F word..
so if youre likely to be offended dont listen:-)
my apologies no offence intended it is a fun ditty otherwise.
Tonight, parts of Ireland are expected to have minimum temperatures of 3 or 4 degrees C. Brrrrr!
In some northern parts of Ireland the temperature actually fell to only 2C last night! The normal July minimum is around 11-12C.
Media for the masses are shouting their lungs out about some heatwave over in the US of A. Is that heatwave all they got?, they are panicking!
I don´t look forward the winter of 2012-2013!
Our summer (Sweden) have been cold, gray and rainy. A couple of warm days, but I could count these days on one hand. Horrible and depressing to say the least! We’re still waiting aand hoping for some real summer. Some severe flooding happend in Småland this past week too. Very unusual, never heard anything like it.