Irish weather gone mad

monotonyonthebunty said:
For two years the weather here has not stopped raining. Is the weather in Britain just as crazy?
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This, of course gets round to the question about climate and climate change.

There is a very readable article at http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/our-evolving-climate/ which makes it clear that there can be big swings in climate over periods of years or even a decade. This is a summary attached to the article.

Our climate is evolving. Although global and regional temperatures generally have a long-term upwards trend, the presence of natural variability means that each year, or decade, is not necessarily warmer than the last. Communication of the impact of natural fluctuations is vital for decision makers and for a sceptical public. Progress in understanding and predicting the natural fluctuations in climate offers the potential to test and improve climate models, narrow the uncertainty in climate predictions and aid adaptation to our evolving climate. Meeting these substantial scientific challenges requires continued investment in global observations, more advanced climate models and better ways of testing climate models against observations.
The author welcomes any feedback on this article and communicating climate variability and climate uncertainty in general.
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I offer no comment but ask that you read the summary and, if so inclined, the full article. It is in plain langiage!
 
i agree, the weather here has gone mad too.
the weather here is beautiful, wall to wall sunshine. i cant remember the last time i saw precipitation. temperatures well above average for february, and barely a gasp of wind. spent some time at wembury beach this afternoon and there were plenty of people in their swimming costumes, some even having a quick dip.

i thought it always rained in ireland, at least since the last ice age?
 
monotonyonthebunty said:
For two years the weather here has not stopped raining. Is the weather in Britain just as crazy?
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You're in Britain / the British Isles but yes, the weather in the UK has been carp for several years now and the rain in the last 12 months has been unbelieveable. But then I suppose thats why the Emerald Isle is emerald.
 
Rossynant said:
It certainly is. As always had been. Can't understand how you can cope...
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Heard someone on the radio a few years ago quoting the mayor of Tromso. He loves British weather because of the variety. In his country they have 6 months icy darkness and six months midge ridden daylight. And we haven't quite had a communist government yet here.......
 
Grumpybear said:
Heard someone on the radio a few years ago quoting the mayor of Tromso. He loves British weather because of the variety. In his country they have 6 months icy darkness and six months midge ridden daylight. And we haven't quite had a communist government yet here.......
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Variety of British weather... :D Well, can understand someone from Tromsø , but he should come over here, to continental climate: from -35 to +35C, siberian winters (and they don't even freeze up there in Norway), tropic summers. Yup, communist occupation was quite a variety too...

But then think of Bergen - they say each year there is one day when it stops raining, haven't seen this day myself, though :o
 
wotayottie said:
You're in Britain / the British Isles but yes, the weather in the UK has been carp for several years now and the rain in the last 12 months has been unbelieveable. But then I suppose thats why the Emerald Isle is emerald.
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No, no, no. (to quote a British PM).

We Irish are in "these Islands", not British Isles, still less Britain & absolutely not UKania... :-(

We lie awake at night worrying that Ireland might be slowly sliding towards Swansea... *No, no, not that, no*.. :-( ^N

Actually, one of my best friend(s) is English so Forum members are very welcome over here.

Just don't mention the far king Banks... :-(^N^N

At least you Welsh (Swansea??) don't have a banking crisis?
 
Unfortunately, just as Irish weather washes over us, so does the Irish Banking crisis as well as the UK one. It's a sort of mushroom existence here - you know, kept in the dark and with sh*t dumped on use from outside. And I dont think either of us wants to mention the rugby results.

Sadly we are both in the geographic area known as the british isles ( small b - nothing to do with Great Britain really) irritating though it might be to some. No amount of official revisionism will change it, and more that we can change being in Europe whatever UKIP wants
 
wotayottie said:
Unfortunately, just as Irish weather washes over us, so does the Irish Banking crisis as well as the UK one. It's a sort of mushroom existence here - you know, kept in the dark and with sh*t dumped on use from outside. And I dont think either of us wants to mention the rugby results.

Sadly we are both in the geographic area known as the british isles ( small b - nothing to do with Great Britain really) irritating though it might be to some. No amount of official revisionism will change it, and more that we can change being in Europe whatever UKIP wants
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+1
 
Theres always hope, or the pub!
Last year had 3 weeks dry sailing end August early September.
This year I,m retired so can pick the good spells.
I reckon its like playing snooker, you always get a break, just have to be paitient!
 
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The Correct description of the Island of Ireland is contained in the first three Articles of the Irish Constitution. If the term british isles is used to describe Ireland as well then it is just a colloquial term.

It's also true that we soak up most of the rain before the clouds get to you :(
 
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