View Full Version : The highest daily temperature EVER recorded in Ireland is 91.9 Fahrenheit
astro
08-23-2009, 03:51 PM
I had no idea the island of Ireland was so temperate. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland)
Climate
Overall, Ireland has a mild but changeable oceanic climate with few extremes. The warmest recorded air temperature was 33.3 °C (91.9 °F) at Kilkenny Castle, County Kilkenny on 26 June 1887, whereas the lowest recorded temperature was −19.1 °C (−2.4 °F) at Markree Castle, County Sligo on 16 January 1881.[24]
Irishmen that moved to the American west in days of yore must have been suffering!
ruadh
08-23-2009, 04:39 PM
They suffer today if the temperature goes above 70. Not that it ever does.
supergoose
08-23-2009, 04:54 PM
One more reason why I curse the gods for not making me Irish.
I'm gonna guess this has a lot to do with the fact that in Ireland the furthest you can get from the (mostly rather cool) ocean looks to be about 55 miles.
mswas
08-23-2009, 06:19 PM
Heh, I should move to Ireland. Though it sounds like it gets pretty cold there.
cwthree
08-23-2009, 07:03 PM
They suffer today if the temperature goes above 70. Not that it ever does.I can live with that. How are the winters?
Carol the Impaler
08-23-2009, 08:36 PM
Years ago, I was planning a trip to Ireland in February. People thought I was crazy, but it was a lot warmer in Ireland in February than Nebraska in February. Hell, it was almost a tropical vacation to go to Ireland in February.
(Ended up going in May.)
The Man With The Golden Gun
08-23-2009, 10:01 PM
I remember shocking an Irish friend of mine by telling her that we actually get tornadoes in Ohio. She was horrified when I told her about one time here in OH when we had two tornado warnings in three days.
Jerseyman
08-23-2009, 10:12 PM
Don't remind me! I have a colour-chart solid-state thermometer card that tells me I should be at 21° and above is wasting energy. No thanks, 21° is where cool stops, 25° is comfortable, 30° warm and from 35° up 'hot'. Last I looked, it was on 27° because it doesn't go any higher. Of course Dublin's a long way North (about 56°) and I come from 49° but it is still depressingly too far from the Eurasian landmass to benefit from hot winds coming that way or South from Spain and the Sahara just as it is to suffer from the Siberian blasters that make winter a misery in France.
dangermom
08-23-2009, 11:27 PM
Does my Irish ancestry explain why I have never managed to acclimate to central California summers, despite having spent nearly half my life in central CA? Anything over 100 and I turn into a puddle.
E-Sabbath
08-23-2009, 11:28 PM
Where I live, we get a range of ten below to 110 above. That's -23 to 43C.
And we can get weeks of either. Is that unusually wide? Because I see people mentioning how people from out west faint in 105 in Georgia. Can't be any more humid than it is up here.
ruadh
08-24-2009, 01:46 AM
I can live with that. How are the winters?
Dark. Dark as hell. The sun sets at 3.30 in the afternoon.
The winters certainly aren't bad by Nebraska standards, but my most recent reference point is San Francisco, and they're colder than that.
cwthree
08-24-2009, 10:34 AM
Dark. Dark as hell. The sun sets at 3.30 in the afternoon.
The winters certainly aren't bad by Nebraska standards, but my most recent reference point is San Francisco, and they're colder than that.
That sounds like a fair trade for cool summers. Better than fair, in fact. Where does the line for immigration start?
garygnu
08-24-2009, 10:37 AM
The record high for Hawai'i is 100° F.
Heh, I should move to Ireland. Though it sounds like it gets pretty cold there.
Heh. I was just thinking "Wow, it only goes down to -2 ?!"
An Gadaí
08-24-2009, 01:00 PM
Ah the winters in Dublin aren't that cold. I love Irish weather. I dunno if I'll ever be able to move to Ohio. Where in the US has similar weather to Ireland?
kaiwik
08-24-2009, 02:52 PM
Ah the winters in Dublin aren't that cold. I love Irish weather. I dunno if I'll ever be able to move to Ohio. Where in the US has similar weather to Ireland?
Kodiak! The other Emerald Isle (http://www.kodiak.org/).
Asimovian
08-24-2009, 02:56 PM
That sounds like a fair trade for cool summers. Better than fair, in fact. Where does the line for immigration start?Can you hold a spot for me, as well? I've lived in LA all my life, and yet I still get unpleasantly warm when it goes over 80 degrees. Ireland sounds like my kind of place!
Shot From Guns
08-24-2009, 03:17 PM
Ireland has palm trees. (Seriously.)
RickJay
08-24-2009, 03:31 PM
That sounds like a fair trade for cool summers. Better than fair, in fact. Where does the line for immigration start?
I wouldn't be so fast to accept very short daylight hours. You'll be shocked how negatively it affects you.
An Gadaí
08-24-2009, 03:46 PM
Ireland has palm trees. (Seriously.)
It surprises me how much that surprises some people. :)
There's one in my garden.
Baron Greenback
08-24-2009, 03:53 PM
That's warmer than Scotland's ever been 32.9C (91.22F). We get a fair bit colder -27.2C (-16.96F). We've got palm trees too.
An Gadaí
08-24-2009, 03:53 PM
I noticed the darkness more in Scotland in winter than here, when I was above in Aberdeen. Here, I'm used to it.
Baron Greenback
08-24-2009, 04:02 PM
That extra four degrees latitude makes a lot of difference. Winter can be quite grim here if it's grey and overcast (and it usually is), although clear and crisp is not so bad. Summer nights are nice though.
hazel-rah
08-24-2009, 04:43 PM
Highest ever recorded temperature is 91F? I really need to follow up on that job application for Harcourt Dublin. 91 of the last 100 days here in Austin have had highs above 100F. And 15 of those 91 days were at or above 105F!
cwthree
08-24-2009, 04:45 PM
It surprises me how much that surprises some people. :)
There's one in my garden.When I vacationed in Ireland I was surprised to see palm trees. After I thought about it, it didn't seem so odd, but I just tend not to think of palm trees as Irish.
Markxxx
08-24-2009, 07:50 PM
Ireland has palm trees. (Seriously.)
Remember when Fawlty Tower's Basil says to the guests at his hotel who are from California, "We have palm trees in Torquay Do you have palm trees in California?" :)
supergoose
08-25-2009, 12:22 AM
Ireland has palm trees. (Seriously.)
:eek: I've seriously never been more shocked to learn something on the dope. Well, at least since the pineapples-don't-grow-on-trees revelation.
GameHat
08-25-2009, 12:33 AM
100 F in Atlanta is heart-stopping murder
100 F in Vegas is fairly comfortable.
It's all about the humidity, people!
(yes, I've visited both multiple times)
ruadh
08-25-2009, 01:36 AM
Where in the US has similar weather to Ireland?
Well, I moved here from San Francisco, and I find the summers to be very similar (although there's not as much rain in SF and it gets darker earlier, obviously). The winters there are shorter and milder. But overall it's not a huge difference, in terms of the lack of extremes.
Personally I hated the weather in SF because it was too cold - what was I thinking moving here? :D
Spectre of Pithecanthropus
08-25-2009, 01:39 AM
I had no idea the island of Ireland was so temperate. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland)
Irishmen that moved to the American west in days of yore must have been suffering!Well at least it's a dry heat, as they say.
SenorBeef
08-25-2009, 01:54 AM
Fuck your dry heats!
I've unthinkingly touched metal parts sitting on my dashboard and given myself decent burns. When it's 119 degrees and I'm stuck in traffic and my eyelids are starting to melt even though my AC is on full blast I'm thinking "THIS DRY HEAT SHIT IS AWESOME!"
CalMeacham
08-25-2009, 06:50 AM
Ah the winters in Dublin aren't that cold. I love Irish weather. I dunno if I'll ever be able to move to Ohio. Where in the US has similar weather to Ireland?
When we were driving around Ireland, I was thinking that even a relatively mild New England-style snowfall would paralyze the island, the way it does in a Southern US city. I simply couldn't see them trying to plow those roads of theirs. Just as well.
Even Scotland doesn't get so bad in the winter, based on my very limited experience. I was in Arbroath on the shortest day of the year -- it got dark by 3, but it wasn't incredibly cold, and not windy. Guys were playing soccer/football in shorts, and there was the barest dusting of snow. But I'm glad I thought to bring a scraper to clear my windshield.
dangermom
08-25-2009, 09:22 AM
I suppose the Pacific Northwest would be closest to Ireland's weather. Oregon and Washington are cool and rainy but I don't think they get a lot of snow (WA might?).
I can't stand humid hot weather at all--I don't know how East/South people do it. As long as it's dry, 100 isn't too bad, even for wimpy me.
E-Sabbath
08-25-2009, 09:28 AM
After some googling, I was startled to find the record low here in NY is -47. The claimed high in NY is 108, but I know I've personally seen higher temperatures back when I had a weather station.
Shot From Guns
08-25-2009, 10:07 AM
I just looked up the record high and low temperatures for Wisconsin: 114° F (46° C) on July 13, 1936 at Wisconsin Dells and -55° F (-48° C) on February 2 and 4, 1996 at Couderay. Take that, Ireland!
Really, I'm crying on the inside.
pravnik
08-25-2009, 10:30 AM
Irishmen that moved to the American west in days of yore must have been suffering!No kidding. It was 106 here over the weekend.
I just looked up the record high and low temperatures for Wisconsin: 114° F (46° C) on July 13, 1936 at Wisconsin Dells and -55° F (-48° C) on February 2 and 4, 1996 at Couderay. Take that, Ireland!
Really, I'm crying on the inside.
Hee. For Vermont it's -50 and 105.
http://ggweather.com/climate/extremes_us.htm
SenorBeef
08-25-2009, 12:00 PM
I'm amazed that somewhere in Nevada reached -50. Must be in the mountains. It's never dropped below 30 since I moved here, IIRC.
E-Sabbath
08-25-2009, 12:58 PM
Alaska wins! -80/100.
ow.
How the hell could they measure -80?
Chimera
08-25-2009, 01:17 PM
Minnesota is close. -60 and 114.
Ichini Sanshigo
08-25-2009, 01:35 PM
I've seriously never been more shocked to learn something on the dope. Well, at least since the pineapples-don't-grow-on-trees revelation.
Wait wait wait... Pineapples don't grow on trees?!
Chronos
08-25-2009, 01:44 PM
From what I've heard, Ireland only gets snow about once every 20 years or so.
I've been there in the summer, and it was very nice (rained at least some every single day, though), but I could never live anywhere that didn't get snow. I'd also prefer somewhere with more uniform day lengths: Summer nights for stargazing, and enough light in winter to not be clawing at the inside of my skull.
Colophon
08-25-2009, 01:49 PM
:eek: I've seriously never been more shocked to learn something on the dope. Well, at least since the pineapples-don't-grow-on-trees revelation.
Just to set you straight, Ireland doesn't have native palm trees, but you can grow 'em there.
By the way, that lowest recorded temperature of -2F must have been pretty freakish. In general, temperatures below 0 Celsius are relatively rare in a typical Irish (or British) winter, at least as far as daytime temps go.
Last winter was reckoned to be a severe one by modern standards, and the lowest it got (in England) was around -11C (12F), with the lowest daytime maxes about -2C (28F). Ireland was probably a few degrees warmer than that, mostly.
Wait wait wait... Pineapples don't grow on trees?!
No. Don't it just blow your mind?
They grow on a plant!!
http://foodscience.wikispaces.com/file/view/pineapple.jpg
StGermain
08-25-2009, 02:24 PM
So no one is Ireland ever has a fever? :D
StG
Lemur866
08-25-2009, 03:06 PM
Ah the winters in Dublin aren't that cold. I love Irish weather. I dunno if I'll ever be able to move to Ohio. Where in the US has similar weather to Ireland?
Seattle is about as close as you can get, but even Seattle has more variation. We just had a record breaking 105 degree heat wave last month, and get some sort of snow pretty much every winter. Usually those snows are a couple of inches that melt within hours or days, but this winter we got a heavy fall of a foot, then melting enough to form a solid ice crust, then another foot, which lasted for a week. Trees crashed to the ground, power lines were down, roads were clogged.
The biggest difference is that here the ocean air gets stopped by the nearby mountains and dumps all the moisture on us. Ireland is pretty flat comparatively so I suppose the moist air just hits the island and keeps going.
supergoose
08-25-2009, 04:11 PM
Just to set you straight, Ireland doesn't have native palm trees, but you can grow 'em there.
Oh thank God. The world was upside down for me for a little while there.
An Gadaí
08-25-2009, 04:17 PM
From what I've heard, Ireland only gets snow about once every 20 years or so.
It depends on the part of the country, and what you mean by 'snow'. There has never been anything near what an American would think of as a proper snowstorm in Dublin in my memory. Once or twice in my lifetime I recall there being maybe half a foot of snow on the ground, probably less. It seldom snows enough in Dublin to stick. Further west and north, it is more common to have a decent snowfall but it is seemingly less common in recent years. The big snowstorms that we've had, pathetic by American standards, enter the folk memory so I've heard numerous times about how snowy and cold it was in 1947 and 1981.
Spavined Gelding
08-25-2009, 09:32 PM
Mrs G and I were in Ireland for a week this past February. Limerick, Cork, Dublin and the Boyne Valley. There was snow on the ground in the mountains south of Dublin (Dublin Mountains, Wicklow Mountains?). The temperature ranged from cool enough in the morning to leave some frost to the high 50s and low 60s F in the early afternoon. It sure beat Iowa in February.
Incidently, not really palm trees. More palmetto bushes.
The whole place was lovely and green though, even with the bare trees.
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