A man jumps off a diving board at night in Salthill, County Galway, Ireland, July 17, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
GALWAY, Ireland (Reuters) - Anyone who visits Ireland in summer might experience bright sunshine, a thunderstorm, driving rain and more sunshine on a single day.
The west coast, where weather systems from the Atlantic meet mountains to create frequent rains, gets twice the rainfall of the east. On the other hand, extreme weather is rare and average national temperatures are 10 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit).
A man jumps off a diving board at night in Salthill, County Galway, Ireland, July 17, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
Even Tourism Ireland says on its website: "Okay, it does rain in Ireland, but long bouts of rain are pretty rare."
Summer fun means keeping a raincoat handy because of sudden downpours, cultivating a hardy attitude and taking full advantage of the sun when it shines.
Teams participate in a seaweed race, each pushing a two tonne seaweed bundle known as Climin from the sea to the harbour finish line during Cruinniu na mBad (gathering of the boats) regatta in Kinvara, Ireland, August 20, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
(Writing by Clodagh Kilcoyne, editing by Mark Hanrahan and Matthew Mpoke Bigg)
A man snorkels in the sea during sunny weather in the County Galway suburb of Salthill, Ireland, May 30, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne People in raincoats look at a swan in St. Stephen's green during heavy rain in Dublin, Ireland, August 14, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne People sunbathe on the beach during good weather in Galway, Ireland, July 17, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne A man goes for a night time swim in the sea at Galway, Ireland, July 17, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne Tourists walk around the Giants Causeway in Bushmills, Northern Ireland, August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne Men relieve themselves at Inch Beach near the County Kerry village of Anascaul, Ireland, July 20, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne Two girls look down at the sea from the top of a diving board platform during good weather in the County Galway suburb of Salthill, Ireland, May 30, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne A man fishing in the rain on Inch beach in Anascaul, County Kerry, Ireland, July 20, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne People stand outside a pub in the County Galway town of Kinvara, Ireland, August 19, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne A cow stands on the beach in White Park Bay in Ballintoy, Northern Ireland, August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
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