Northern ireland weather

Last July, I bought a wool hat as a souvenir. I ended up wearing it. Bring the hat and gloves.

Thank you!

As someone from Northern Ireland we can have four seasons in one day, at the moment we are having wall to wall sunshine with warm sunshine best think to do is go to our local BBC Northern Ireland website and look at the weather there for the location youre visiting by typing it in eg Belfast
www.bbc.co.uk/ni
Or www.metoffice.gov.uk - the met office is the United Kingdoms national weather service

You need hat and gloves anytime of year in Ireland! I was bundled up one year in August at the Dublin horse show!

They are not visiting Ireland, they are visiting Northern Ireland, different country...do you live in Mexico? No you don't

Last time I was in Northern Ireland, it was so warm that our guide (former RS Guide Stephen McPhilemy) had to repeatedly stop for ice cream because he had a rule that whenever it was over 70 degrees or so he had to regulate his temperature with the stuff. He suggested it was a medical necessity or something. And given that he wasn’t tubby in the least, I took it to suggest that stopping for ice cream several times a day was not a normal occurrence because it would be hard to keep the weight off if one is eating ice cream with great regularity .

Now he was originally from Derry before he moved to Dingle. If you asked him if Northern Ireland was a different county like Mexico is a different country than the US, well, you might get a longish answer that would have political overtones as well as few funny observations and maybe even a rebel song or too… but I digress.

Happy travels!

Hat and gloves don't take up much space, so better to be safe rather than sorry you didn't pack them...

The island is called Ireland. The countries on Ireland are The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. In my experience, you're likely to have very different weather in the two countries on any given day. In fact, you might have different weather on two sides of a given street. Take the hat, lest you split your hairs.

If I am understanding you right G3rryCee-- and I think I am-- you're saying I could need ice cream if I were in Derry and but not need it if I were in Belfast-- even on the same day!

Interesting!

I also recall being in Scotland in July and seeing my breath as if it were a Cleveland winter-- but that's a different kettle of fish.

I really think someone should do something about these variable conditions-- can I write to the King? (I suppose that wouldn't make sense if I were Donegal though....)

Happy travels.

Wow, scalespaul82, that was incredibly rude. Ireland is the island. I have found everyone I have met in my half dozen visits to the Republic of Ireland to be very warm and welcoming. Perhaps Northern Ireland’s population is not so. On a more productive note, I think that visitors from the US (and maybe Mexico, too :), forget just how far north Ireland lies. It is at the same latitude as southern Alaska, but it does benefit from the Gulf Stream. Now off to debate with myself if I need to participate in these forums.

David, I'm saying you might want ice cream in Derry and hot chocolate in Londonderry in the same hour. Don't like the weather, give it a minute.

They are not visiting Ireland, they are visiting Northern Ireland, different country...do you live in Mexico? No you don't

Funny that Rick Steves calls his tour "Best of Ireland", not "Best of Ireland and Northern Ireland", despite the fact that it goes to both. @scalespaul82, you are a very rude person.

G3rryCee, would you be offended if instead of a hot chocolate in Londonderry I got a whisky in Derry?

Or is it whiskey? (Both these places in are Scotland or am I confused again?)

Cheers!