What is provisionally being described as the hottest ever August day in Ireland has been recorded, with the temperature reaching 31.7 degrees in Co Carlow, Met Éireann has said.
A temperature of 31.7C is about 11.8C above the long-term average in an almost 30-year timeframe, the forecaster added. One high-resolution weather model, Meteologix, is predicting a localised temperature of 33 degrees around Kilkenny city where the highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland of 33.3 degrees occurred on June 26th, 1887. Mr Doran-Sherlock cautioned that it was “highly unlikely” that its official record stations will record a temperature in excess of 33.3 degrees.
Lovely pic of the carlow beachfront there too
At this stage it’s lazy journalism (probably subediting) to illustrate abnormally high temperatures with a picture of families on the beach. They’d still be there if the high were 22C rather than 32C. Summer is not news, climate breakdown is.
Follow me out of Carlow!
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