Warm and Dry but showery sometimes

June

Warm and Sunny to begin
Then with showers
Later some more sunshine

July

Warm even hot at times
Best weather in South
Rain heavy with thunder

August

Much cooler weather
Windy too
Northwest only 14

c South 18c

Summer 2016 Forecast Update

A much warmer Summer than 2015.

There will be temperatures of 25c in July.May and July will be the best months.

MayMixed weather but dry and warm midmonth with temperatures over 20c. Later in May it will be cooler and unsettled.

JuneA high number of showery days with temperatures of just 14 to 17c. There will be some even cooler days too. However at the end as July approaches High Pressure will build to the South.

JulyA warm month with some Thundery outbreaks. The temperature will be near 20c a lot and some days could reach 24 or 25c in the South. The warmest day is usually 27c.

AugustVery cool the past number of years but this Summer could be different especially for the first half. Rain and showers more prevalent in the second half of the month.

Overall the North and West never get as much sun as the South but this year will not be freezing cold like 2015.

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Summer 2016 Warm but mixed

Some warm and mixed weather signalled for Irelands Summer 2016 

It will certainly not be as cool as 2015 but there will be a lot of rain in the form of showers with some warm sunshine and plenty of days of 20c.

New Summer Forecast 2016 for Ireland. ....

More to follow

Summer ends as it started

Yes an unsettled end to August with rain most days for Ireland so not too many more evenings like this one..

A Cold Wet Miserable August

This August will start as it means to go on with cold wet and miserable weather for Ireland. Although not as wet as the Summers of 2007 - 2012, 2015 has been noted as the "cold" Summer. Parts of the Northern half of Ireland have not seen the temperature pass 22c at all which is highly unusual. 

Furthermore some parts of Ulster and Connaught have had only 4 or 5 days all season that the temperature has passed 20c. Normally there are at least 16 to 18. This week in line with the way that Summer 2015 has gone so far there has been a lot of evenings where it was like it was Autumn and only 9 or 10c whereas in 2013 it was 20c at the same time on the same date.

So what does August have in store. Cool and Showery with breezy conditions. Well it still looks more likely to snow than there be a heatwave in Ireland this Summer. It certainly would seem that the temperature of 14c will be the modal value of the Summer. Here in Sligo weathergossip has collated the temperature data for May, June and July in what Met Eireann calls our Summer and there are some astoundingly cold figures. 

For example a temperature of 5.5c has been recorded in Co Sligo this July on nights that are normally 12 or 13c. The maximum July temperature of 22.4c on 3rd July is the highest of the entire year in Sligo. Normally we see 24 or 25 at least 2 or 3 occasions so we are fast running out of time.

Sligo Summer Weather Data 2015

May - Days over 20c - 0
           Days over 15c - 7
           Days over 10c - 21
           Days below 10c - 2

June - Days over 20c - 3
           Days over 15c - 14
           Days over 10c - 12
           Days below 10c - 1

July - Days over 20c - 3
           Days over 15c - 10
           Days over 10c - 18

           Days below 10c - 0

Heres a more Summer like image to end the article and maybe bring better weather

What a blue sky looks like

A Cool Summer

The 2nd half of Irish Summer is going to be cool with occasional rainfall. A North or Northwesterly wind is going to dominate but there will be some dry or bright spells too.

Nights will be quite cold with the possibility of seeing temperatures close to freezing in August.

June 2015 to bring Warmer spells

After a quite nightmarish May of cold wind and rain it looks like June will bring an improving situation for Ireland. The temperature for May was 9.9c Mean which is over a degree below what we would normally expect. June averages about 12.6c in Sligo and after day 1 we are on 8.8c!! But dont despair this figure will creep up as the month goes on and there is certainly strong signals of temperatures exceeding 20c in the next 7 to 10 days.