01-30-2012, 08:10 PM
Kathy, if you don't like cold weather, you do NOT want to go to Ireland. I lived in Dublin for a year and a half before moving back here a couple of years ago. It's true that it rarely gets below freezing, but the flip side is that it never gets warm. If you look at the monthly temperature averages, you'll see that the main difference between winter and summer is the nighttime low, while the daytime high hardly changes.
During the entire summer I was there (I had two winters, unfortunately), it got above 70 degrees on a total of three days. People were out sunbathing when it was 60 (you have to take advantage of every sunny day, because there are so few), while I was wearing long sleeves - and it goes without saying that no one went into the water. It's brighter here when it's cloudy, than when it's sunny in Ireland. London is almost the same latitude north, but is much warmer in summer because it's farther from the Atlantic.
During the entire summer I was there (I had two winters, unfortunately), it got above 70 degrees on a total of three days. People were out sunbathing when it was 60 (you have to take advantage of every sunny day, because there are so few), while I was wearing long sleeves - and it goes without saying that no one went into the water. It's brighter here when it's cloudy, than when it's sunny in Ireland. London is almost the same latitude north, but is much warmer in summer because it's farther from the Atlantic.