Best: The Weather. Ireland has the potential for very few natural disasters or extreme weather, the most would be a bad storm or once every few decades a heavy Canadian like snow and cold spat that lasts a few months. The most we have to deal with is heavy rain and flooding or the tail ends of other regions disasters like the remnants of a hurricane that peeters out crossing the Atlantic or the ash and a really bad winter from an Icelandic Volcano popping in the summer. Tornados are very rare, earthquakes are not felt and heat rarely exceeds 30 Celsius.
Worst: The Weather. It's so extremely temperate that summer is often hard to come by and clouds and rain make up most of the year. For people who are Solar powered and depend on the sun this can be torturous and that's most people even if some people are less dependent. For people with mental health problems it can make everything much worse. It routinely causes depression and the Irish don't like admitting they have depression so you'll see a lot of alcoholics, mostly functioning but it still ruins them.
I think the biggest recent natural disaster we had was a spring/summer in 1947 where temperatures plummeted and snow fell that lasted 3 months and had drifts the height of telephone polls, people had to dig tubnels from their windows to the surface for air, on the plus side this saved them cause it kept them warm from the extremely low temps. With the way things worked back then though and being so heavily dependent on planting that must have been very rough for people esspecially in urban areas. Before that was the Potatoe blight about 200 years ago but that was because we didn't diversify in agriculture, I've always been surprised they didn't see that coming when they knew crops could fail.
Last edited by LegitHyperbole - on 21 July 2025
