Up to 19th July, Cork Airport has recorded 15.4mm of rain for Summer 2018. Its driest overall Summer on record is 1995 which had 114.0mm of rain. Here's every Summer's rainfall total that Cork Airport has recorded up to 2017 (including August in the totals) since 1962. Cork Airport needs to record 98.7mm from now to 31st August to surpass Summer 1995's total and not be a record breaker. However, as it stands, Summer 2018 is Cork Airport's driest Summer on record which is kind of surprising to see given the overall trend of Summer rainfall of the 21st century so far at the station.
These are Cork Airport's Summer rainfall total averages. The first average is an overall station average based on its Summers it has recorded whilst the next two are the 30 year averages, the latter obviously being the one Met Éireann uses in their monthly summaries for % of average.
1962-2017 average: 245.7mm
1971-2000 average: 229.0mm
1981-2010 average: 257.5mm
Just for fun sakes, here's averages specifically for the 1st June to 19th July period at Cork Airport:
1962-2017 average: 125.3mm
1971-2000 average: 109.4mm
1981-2010 average: 132.1mm
Now some fun facts on the 1st June to 19th July period history in terms of rainfall at Cork Airport. The wettest was 2012 with 310.9mm which had completely smashed the previous record of 237.8mm in 2007. The driest was 2006 with 43.3mm and this was also the last time when the period in question had a rainfall total below 100mm so 2018 is highly unusual. 2018 has smashed 2006's record of 43.3mm now with 15.4mm for the period. This is the graph for Cork Airport of every such period's rainfall total since 1962 up to 2017.
Here's Cork Airport's averages for the period 20th July to 31st August:
1962-2017 average: 120.4mm
1971-2000 average: 119.6mm
1981-2010 average: 125.4mm
Driest such period was 1976 with 15.1mm whilst the wettest was 1986 with 276.9mm. Here's the graph for Cork Airport of every such period's rainfall total since 1962 up to 2017.
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