Do Irish people really remember ordinary events by the weather that day, or have I accidentally met five human rain archives during one summer course?
I’m halfway through an eight-week summer course in Galway, and several people here can date an event more accurately by the weather than by the calendar.
Examples from this week:
- “That was the morning the rain came sideways.”
- “No, it happened before the warm Thursday.”
- “We met her during that fog that stayed past lunch.”
They weren’t joking. Two of them disagreed on the month but immediately agreed once someone mentioned the wind. I find this both charming and slightly alarming, because I can barely remember whether yesterday was wet.
Is this definately an Irish habit, a west-coast thing, or just a coincidence among my classmates? And do people actually use weather memories to settle dates later, or is it more of a conversational shortcut that sounds precise but isnt?