Wet, dull and windy - Summer of 2012 was Ireland’s worst in 26 years

Id rather irish/british weather than the extreme weather you get in the states for sure. It does not cost our countries billions every year in damages......You can keep the extreme.

Weather in Ireland since the turn of the millenium has been increasingly erratic. Less sunshine every year. More recent trends have been for any summer worth mentioning to begin unseasonally early, then sink into unpredictability, and end on a high, with sunshine on alternate days throughout. I fear the summers of my childhood are a thing of the past. May winter abroad from here on in to compensate.

I was there from Aug. 6th to the 23rd. I attended a wedding the 10th and it was a beautiful sunny day. Actually it was not bad weather at all. It did rain every day but the sun shone every day too As my niece said"Ireland would be a great country if you could put a hat on it" . The friendly kind people make up for the showers.

St Patrick's is only crying his eyes out with his efforts to bring enlightenment to pagans has come a cropper. To hell with the lot of yees.

Talked to Maggie, wife of my Irish third cousin Jimmy in Co. Monaghan, at the end of August. They had a fire going the night I talked to Maggie, it was that chilly there. Maggie said the weather had been horrible this summer for farmers in Ireland. A lot of farmers were not able to get into their fields because of the wet to harvest the silage.