So much for global warming! Ireland’s summer heatwave is still missing in action – and there’s no sign of it turning up anytime soon.
Experts at Met Eireann, the Irish state weather service, have confirmed the country has just experienced the coldest July in 50 years -- this after a similar finding for June.
And there’s little sign of August being much better after the month began with widespread rain across the 32 counties.
June was also the coldest it has been in almost 50 years with the readings for July no better.
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Met Eireann officials have confirmed that all but one of their 11 main weather stations reported below normal temperatures last month.
The greater Dublin area ‘enjoyed’ its coolest July for 46 years.
Dublin Airport’s weather station recorded average temperatures of just 56 degrees the lowest since July 1965.
Other unusually low temperatures included a 34 degrees ground level minimum temperature at Valentia, Co Kerry, the lowest since 1940.
An air temperature of 43 degrees was recorded at Cork Airport on July 6th, the coldest since 1965.
Weather forecaster John Eagleton said: “There were some good days in July but we did not get a run of good weather so people do not have a memory of that.”
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.hancock | Aug 03, 2011, 03:37 PM EDT
That's called summer genius.
FastEddy | Aug 03, 2011, 11:09 AM EDT
"Carbon is the problem all right, carbon based life forms." So, lets all turn gay and kill off all of the women, just like the ancient Greeks. ... Of course then how would we keep warm on these cold nights?
Ms.Gail | Aug 03, 2011, 01:27 AM EDT
Carbon is the problem all right, carbon based life forms.
ciarrai | Aug 02, 2011, 09:39 PM EDT
Well, I think the evidence supports the reality of global warming, despite the coolness Ireland is experiencing. Come and spend a day working out doors here in Connecticut. It's warm to hot.
seagreen | Aug 02, 2011, 08:01 PM EDT
The fresh water flow from Davis Strait (betwen Arctic Canada and West Greenland) and the southward flow through Denmark Strait (between East Greenland and Iceland, is at the moment the suspect of what may be happening. fresh water, which is also colder flowing south at 200m in depth is mixing possibly changing the salinity of the gulf stream and its appendages. This in turn weakens the strength of the warm water flow, and the Gulf Stream begins to fracture in certain areas, causing it to have less of a protective effect in regard to maintaining the warm temperatures that Ireland enjoys even though it is at 54 degrees north. it is still a study. if this is in fact what is happening, and is not something that has been happening for a thousand years, it will be causing temperature change downward for Ireland, Scotland, and Iceland in just a few years. as for the US, it is on the west wall of the stream, and is not subject to any cooling influences from the Labrador Current or the afforementioned ones. We are now heading back up into Davis Strait to reset our moorings on a yearly interval
jamthecat | Aug 02, 2011, 05:14 PM EDT
What a stupid thing to say, Cathal. Your foolish opening comment only reveals your ignorance about what "global warming" means -- that the weather's extremes will be greater. Hotter summers. Colder winters. Stronger storms. Worse droughts. You can argue as to WHY this is happening, but the fact of it is here and real and you continuing to act like the nitwits who made fun of Noah as he built his ark changes nothing. BTW, I'm writing this from San Antonio, Texas which has had record breaking heat this summer...100 every day of the last two weeks I've been here. And it's been going on even longer in Dallas, with the entire state in a massive, years-long drought. So much for your idiocy.
GoogieLaRue | Aug 02, 2011, 05:02 PM EDT
@boydsheild For example-41C is 106F. Therefore, in this piece, all has to be farenheit.
boydshield | Aug 02, 2011, 03:04 PM EDT
F or C?
peterson | Aug 02, 2011, 02:36 PM EDT
Ireland has always been a "cool" place to visit or live !!
sirpeter | Aug 02, 2011, 12:33 PM EDT
That widespread rain must have missed Cork.Oh! Wait a min. I just saw the rainy pic of Dublin.I forgot Jackeens think Dublin is Ireland
irish53 | Aug 02, 2011, 12:25 PM EDT
I'll take that cool weather any day. It's been two straight months of temperatures in the 100's and it's suppose to hit 113 today. Staying inside with the air conditioning doesn't help because it can't keep up with the heat. I'd give my right arm to be in Ireland right now.
TheOldPerfessor | Aug 02, 2011, 11:31 AM EDT
A cool period in Ireland can be described as local warming. Global warming is a measure of the combined temperatures of every spot on the planet. Trust me on this - it's getting warmer. Meantime, the polluters continue to mount an effective disinformation campaign aimed at people who don't know the first thing about science. These are folks who believe the world is 6000 years old. They'll believe anything.
Trealach | Aug 02, 2011, 11:28 AM EDT
"....with widespread rain across the 32 counties." WHICH 32 counties? Has Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Galway been moved out of the 32? We've hardly seen a drop of rain. Global warming and Climate change are two separate scientific issues. Dervan, wouldn't you be better off concocting some story about Gays?
Trealach | Aug 02, 2011, 11:25 AM EDT
"....with widespread rain across the 32 counties." WHICH
annaly22 | Aug 02, 2011, 11:04 AM EDT
Do NOT call it "Global" cooling! I am in the States, and we are having the HOTTEST summer on record! We have had more states with long term 100 degree temps- or higher- than ever. There have literally been pictures of people frying eggs on side walks!(In a pan, of course:-) This has to do with excessive heat in the ocean waters causing the jet stream to move. Ireland simply is in the dip of it, whereas it is far north of usual here in the US. Keep your facts straight, please. It is NOT global , the cooling YOU have. I could use some of it here. It is over 90 plus degrees- and it isn't even Noon yet!
adrienrain | Aug 02, 2011, 11:00 AM EDT
Which is why 'climate change' better describes - well - changes in the climate. Personally I think all the flap about Warming - is it getting hotter? colder? just right? - is a huge distraction from the fact that we are destroying all the systems we (and many other earthborn lifeforms) must have to survive on this planet. And the cause? Exactly the same: carbon emissions and general pollution of the environment. Oil in all its forms, of course, and the deadly plastics that are dissolving into the ocean as a toxic soup - but the radioactive element will cause plenty of trouble too. Tailings from uranium mining are heaped up near waterways, And huge dead zones are forming in the ocean from our agricultural runoff. Meanwhile, two factions are debating whether the temperature just went up a degree or down a degree! Is there any intelligent life on this planet?
CitizenWhy | Aug 02, 2011, 10:56 AM EDT
Global climate change/warming has predicted far colder winters for Ireland and northern Europe. As the planet heats up certain places will lose the advantage they have had from things such as the ocean current from the Caribbean that keeps Ireland temperate. Fifty years from now Ireland will probably be more like Sweden.
gaeilgesdamhsa | Aug 02, 2011, 10:55 AM EDT
Don't listen to those experts. I've been here in Clare & Mayo since July 20th & almost every day has been sunny and pleasant. Most days you don't even need a jacket.
jamieLM | Aug 02, 2011, 10:16 AM EDT
We have all the global warming here in the U.S., that's why it's cool in Ireland. :) Where I live in the Midwest, we had the 7th warmest July on record - and HIGH humidity. We do have AC so we can stay cool inside our homes, stores, and cars. Still, we'd be happy to send some of our hot weather to Ireland.
carrickcourt | Aug 02, 2011, 09:45 AM EDT
I suspect the cooler summer temps in Ireland, which my relations in the North and the Republic have complained about, does have to do with global warming. With the melting of Greenland ice sheet colder water is effecting the Gulf Steam flow to Europe. If the Gulf Steam flow becomes totally blocked by much colder waters off Greenland Europe will be in for much colder weather in the future. Now everyone get into your SUV's and help speed up global warming
GraydonWilson | Aug 02, 2011, 09:44 AM EDT
Cathal — isn't there a football match or a golf outing somewhere you could occupy yourself with? You're out of your element here. Weather and climate are not the same thing, and pointing to the daily temps in an attempt to discredit the scientifically accepted reality of climate change ill-serves anyone, Irish or otherwise.
joan1954 | Aug 02, 2011, 09:41 AM EDT
Just returned from 10 days in Galway and the weather was glorious. My problem was that I had problems with Irish humidity and I live in Texas! But here we have air conditioning that at least makes it easier to deal with. On the other side of the coin our Gaelic football team played in 97 degree heat at their launch this past Saturday but they kept hydrated.