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Friday
September 23 2005
Thank goodness for Irish Weather!
With the media camped in the Gulf Coast region of the USA, where the weather really is a huge issue with terrible tragedy associated with it, we have good reason to be thankful for the kind of weather we get in Ireland. It may be grey and miserable for the long months of the winter, or even at other times, but it is never really extreme.
Still, I regularly get emails asking me about Irish weather and what to expect from it. It is quite difficult to answer these in any helpful way, as the reality is that nobody knows, often from one minute to the next nevermind from day to day, what the weather will do. Irish people talk about it constantly so really even we have never quite become used to it or learned with any accuracy what to expect.
The photographs below were all taken at the Cliffs of Moher in April last year. We arrived there in the rain and it all looked pretty miserable, but in the time it took to walk up to O'Briens Tower at the top of the cliffs that changed completely. All in the space of about 20 minutes.
This summer I went to the Waterford coast one July day that started out sunny and pretty hot but by lunchtime I was wishing I had a warm coat. On the other hand I recall an April day at Mizen Head in the extreme South West on the Atlantic Coast when everyone was wearing shorts and T shirts.
So the only answer I can give in reponse to questions about what the weather will be like is "Who knows?" But for sure there will not be hurricanes or tornados or anything extreme, so maybe the real answer is that the weather will be kind, no matter when you come.
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