The weather forecast lady after the 9 O’clock news confirmed it last night. This has been the worst Summer since records began. We thought last Summer was bad (which it was), but this one was actually worse. Two in a row; this really has gone beyond a joke. There was 190mm of rain in Dublin in August this year compared to 95mm last year. In the last month we also broke some unwanted records here in the capital having experienced the dullest August and the most rainfall in one single August day since records began (76.2mm on the 9th)!
Dublin City Council are again doing their bit by “flooding” every second billboard in the city with notices remind us that “watering your garden for one house uses 500 litres of drinking water.
The forecasters with an audible tremor in their voices appeared each night after the news to confirm what we already suspected: “A necklace of depressions”, “a ribbon of low pressures”, “a parade of anti-cyclones” were gathering in the Atlantic, just off the west coast of Ireland waiting to do their party piece. One after another they arrived all “summer” long and dumped their unwanted watery cargo on top of us. There is a great expression after a few days of rain here: “ah sure it will keep the dust down”, however the sight of dust whisping around the place is becoming the stuff of legend.
September is usually a good month weather-wise but the rain gods seem to have overlooked the fact that the children have now gone back to school. To compound the misery, today it was even cold. I shall try and think of something less depressing to talk about in my next instalment, but now it’s time to get back to the plans for the ark.
Dublin City Council are again doing their bit by “flooding” every second billboard in the city with notices remind us that “watering your garden for one house uses 500 litres of drinking water.
The forecasters with an audible tremor in their voices appeared each night after the news to confirm what we already suspected: “A necklace of depressions”, “a ribbon of low pressures”, “a parade of anti-cyclones” were gathering in the Atlantic, just off the west coast of Ireland waiting to do their party piece. One after another they arrived all “summer” long and dumped their unwanted watery cargo on top of us. There is a great expression after a few days of rain here: “ah sure it will keep the dust down”, however the sight of dust whisping around the place is becoming the stuff of legend.
September is usually a good month weather-wise but the rain gods seem to have overlooked the fact that the children have now gone back to school. To compound the misery, today it was even cold. I shall try and think of something less depressing to talk about in my next instalment, but now it’s time to get back to the plans for the ark.
1 comment:
My God Dublin has changed so much since last I lived there........it sounds altogether grey and depressing. The weather has been great down here in Sligo.......I'm looking out at a big blue sky at the minute ( Hmmmmmmmm well just the odd cloud around!!!)
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