Rainfall so far this month has been way above what would normally be expected for the entire month of June. However, suggestions that our summer is now doomed can, it appears, be put down to pure pessimism.
According to Met Éireann it is impossible to predict accurately what Irish weather will be like for more than five days in advance.
"Basically, in this part of the world it can't be done," said meteorologist Dr Aidan Nulty.
He explained this was because of Ireland's latitudinal position. "The weather is very active at the middle latitudes because it is where warm tropical air from the south and cool air from the polar regions meet. It is the interaction between both that makes the weather so variable here," he said.
"Weather systems that will affect Ireland in five or six days may not even exist anywhere yet and that is why we can't forecast them," he added.
However, Dr Nulty said that while showers were likely to continue up to Sunday, there are "tentative signs" of high pressure moving towards Ireland next week. "They are not indicating a big heat wave or anything like that but they do indicate more settled weather. That is as strongly as I could put it at the moment."
While computer forecasts can predict the weather outlook for up to 10 days, Dr Nulty said they have to be approached with extreme caution. But why has our weather been so bad this year? Dr Nulty says good summers are the exception rather than the rule in Ireland. "On average we get one warm summer every five years. People forget that."
He said, however, that it was still early summer and people should not give up hope. "The summer of 1995 started off like this. That year May and most of June were quite damp and it turned out to be the best summer of the 20th century. It was hot and sunny for about two months after that".
Dr Nulty does not believe there is enough evidence to blame global warming for this year's bleak summer so far. "If Ireland had always been getting good summers and suddenly it got wet, then there would be a definite trend. But Ireland has a history of having bad summers," he said.
Mr Peter Lennon, who works in the climate section of Met Éireann, said 67 mm of rain had fallen in Dublin and 109 mm in Belmullet during the first 17 days of June. This means rainfall in Belmullet by June 17th was 62 per cent more than in the entire month of June last year.
Most other weather centres across the country, including Birr, Casement, Claremorris, Clones, Cork, Valentia, and Malin Head, have also already exceeded last year's levels of rainfall for June.
Mr Lennon said strong winds have also been an usual feature this month, with a gust of 63 knots recorded at Belmullet on June 17th. "That was its highest gust for June since 1962," he said.
Mean temperatures have also been slightly below normal. Mr Brendan McWilliams, a meteorologist and Irish Times columnist, puts the poor weather down to the luck of the draw. "I don't think there is anything extraordinary going on," he said.