Heatwave
Since our first heatwave at the end of May/early June, the temperature continued to be higher
than average, slipping back a few degrees to 19c - 25c, with only one day
of heavy rain, over the next five weeks These warm, dry Summer days,
resulted in the water levels of the lake rapidly
receding, until it was impossible
to float a boat in the northern end of the lake.
After the second heatwave hit us, with temperatures averaging between
25c and 32c, over a two week period, you could walk across the northern end of the lake in short wellies.
Our boating became limited to Lough Ree, where we have moored our Leisure
17 "Hi Spirit". Like all good things, the brilliant weather finally
broke in the last week of July, where we were treated to rain, wind and cloudy
skies. It was a shock to the system not to wake up to another cloudless,
warm day!
