Irelands heatwave media coverage

kyote00

So the heatwave in Ireland is really just one day - Monday when temperatures will get towards 32c…

Tuesday and Wednesday look like wet and thunder showers

32c is hot for sure and but surely we can manage one day

is the radio and tv coverage totally over the top ?

is one day now a heatwave ?

EOQRTL

It's just a warm summer period for christ sake but i think the media like to run with it to create fear about the climate.

I'm 49 years of age and i can remember long hot periods of sunshine during the summer back in the 80's that went on for weeks without the media constantly attempting to make us feel guilty about it.

It's too hot = climate change

It's too cold = climate change

It's too windy = climate change

It's snowing = climate change

They need to give it a break.

Jim_Hodge

It'll be the hottest summer on record...for a couple of days. This doesn't equate to climate change in my book. The UK media are every bit a bad .

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058254738/irelands-heatwave-media-coverage

yes, yes it is, as oppose to our normal one day of summer, just this year, it happens to be a heatwave for that one day, so yippee....

McGinniesta

I'm off for my annual celebratory sunshine pedal. This will be followed by a brief power nap and a few beers to unwind.

Climate change pedal and crank

Atlantic Dawn

There's not the usual scanger drinking gatherings causing hassle this year at certain Dublin beaches, is it too hot for them?

hunter2000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345033#Comment_119345033

Danny Healy Rae is on boards.

McGinniesta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345676#Comment_119345676

No. They're like the insects who can survive a nuclear exchange. They'll just get sunburned and the linden village starts kicking in.

Ubbquittious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119344990#Comment_119344990

Even if it's not "too" anything there is a constant feed of news about mildly unusual weather events from around the world to keep the fear going

beachhead

The hyping by Irish media is out of order.The current weather is not a unique event.It's been happening for decades.It's called a good summer as far as we get good summers.As for the European mainland I've spent baking hot July and August in France and loved it long before climate change or global warming became media buzzwords.

Pussyhands

Imagine is the temperature record was broken, George Lee would have a horn on him for a month spouting in about climate change.

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345719#Comment_119345719

And still no sign of him hitting the Netherlands to cover a real story about farming and climate change protests.

martingriff

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345730#Comment_119345730

Why would he going to another country to cover something. Should every the economist journalist go to every country to follow that.

As in relation to the record temperature for 1 it is a bit over the top but people need to be careful and not go nuts sunburn or sunstroke is no joke. Also weather's been very good for the last while so hardly 1 day

fryup

compared to what the continent and UK have to put up with we're getting off lightly

Real Donald Trump

#StaySafe

TheRiverman

RTE are a disgrace with all their agendas. I commented previously that their presenters are wetting themselves to get to mention the two words "climate change" as many times as possible every day. Don't get me started about the yellow, orange, red weather warning crap.

martingriff

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345772#Comment_119345772

Exactly we have had great weather which is nice and great to be out in

Count Dracula

I am looking forward to Anne O'Donnell giving us some weekend relief on Virgin Media News this evening. She really brightens up my weekend, regardless of the forecast. I can't wait to see her smiling cheekily as she wraps up the bulletin before the weather forecast. She's like the wind.

Strumms

The heatwave originally was forecasted to last many more days. That has changed, thankfully . Weather forecasts change.

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday will be mid to late ‘20’s.. very hot for sure but not a skin frying apocalypse..in the mid 30’s that some were forecasting going back.

freshpopcorn

I think certain people getting all hyper over a bit of heat in July and a few storms in the Winter plays a part in why climate change isn't taken seriously buy people!

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345771#Comment_119345771

He's not the economist journalist in RTE since he left took a career break to join Fine Gael in 2009, he is Environment Correspondent for RTE since he returned, the issues in Netherlands concern actions taken by the government on farmers there to control 'climate change' which would fall in to the topic of Environment. The events there are being whitewashed by the media here and not covered.

RTE sent Fergal Bowers, (their health journalist) and a camera crew to Alicante last week to cover an Irish person having such an everyday procedure as a hip replacement for circa 1 minute of an interview, absolutely no need to be covered...

https://www.rte.ie/news/health/2022/0714/1310091-healthcare-abroad-funding/

TheRiverman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345886#Comment_119345886

This is the outsourcing of part of our Health Service to a private hospital in Spain, of course it should be covered.

dePeatrick

I’ll genuinely be surprised if temperatures reach 30°C on Monday.

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345988#Comment_119345988

Prepare to to genuinely surprised.

As we speak, its 25C widely. The next two nights will be average 15 tonight and average 17 Sunday night, so the heat build will be considerable before the South Easterly flow even beds in late tomorrow.

Temps WILL exceed 30 on Monday and WILL exceed it on Tuesday too. The question is by how much. 32 is likely, but will it exceed the all time record of 33.3, harder to say. If these conditions were to persist for longer than forecast, say to Thursday or Friday, I'd bet the house on it going, but two days may not be enough.

I'm looking for a high of maybe 32 in Oak Park, Carlow; Dunsany in Meath or at Mullingar.

This is clearly an unusual event across Europe given that records are going to fall.

dePeatrick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119346015#Comment_119346015

Well we’ll see, Temp dropping now in most parts as cloud cover moves in.

martingriff

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345886#Comment_119345886

I did mean to say he was the economist it was meant to be a separate point as should an economist journalist go everywhere for everthing in relation to it.

In relation to the Bowers you do realise it was about a hospital opening for Irish patients on a waiting so of course they sent someone. (Did you even read the story)

Why should RTE sent someone in relation to protests. Do they send some for every protests. Because it farmers because its environment. There will likely be a Ryanair strike by some unions in Spain next week do we send someone to that.

Calahonda52

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345758#Comment_119345758

More like the quality of the contributions on this thread

dePeatrick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119346211#Comment_119346211

Yes, I see that on the map, you might be lucky and escape the showers.

dePeatrick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119346279#Comment_119346279

That’s disappointing, how do you manage to bbq indoors?

gw80

Yep, some guy on today fm yesterday talking about a "heat dome" building and it will be like a self feeding furnace that could settle over the country for a few weeks,

Such horse ****.

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119346354#Comment_119346354

Sounds like some of the guff you'd read on the Daily Mail.

It's already been raining for the last 2 hrs up here in North Donegal. It was a warm day ok, but looking out the window now, there is no sign of any impending heat dome.

Yeh, Donegal was never at the races. But this is a major event for much of Northern Europe and local records are likely to topple even in Ireland. London will be practically unlivable.

NIMAN

Always find big cities feel much worse in high temps.

Have been in Rome and London before during very hot periods, and they are very uncomfortable. Probably the lack of a breeze, plus when you have all those millions of folk, cars, factories, etc, it all adds up. 40c in London would be a lot worse than 40c at the coast.

Raining here in South tipperary

Count Dracula

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119346598#Comment_119346598

The shrubs will be delighted.

Denny61

Who is exactly making up the weather forecast. Dull here in tipperary for Past two hours. Now it's raining plus temperature today was easy surpassed a few weeks ago by warmer weather. And now they telling us something big on the way..stay indoors...albeit its only 29 to 30 for two Days. Then be lucky to get 18 to 20degreess from Wed on .. foreigners here are laughing at us ...and our over the top panic...I blame it on the covid or the vaccine. Its messing with our brain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119346626#Comment_119346626

Agree sir, everything is a crisis or the end of the world.

NIMAN

I went out at walk at 3pm, in shorts and a t-shirt. Nice and warm.

Came back an hour later in the rain. Soaked.

Kinda sums up irish summer weather.

cal naughton

Rte news MD Jon Williams had to apologize last year and send staff on a training course for not linking a few day's of a heatwave to climate change. So the pressure from the usual climate alarmists will ramp up the hysteria.

AllForIt

We had one of the worst Junes I can remember. I didn't sit on the garden bench once, or have reason to wear sorts or a t-shirt outdoors. If bad weather is a result of CC then why didn't the media say the bad weather we had in June is a result of CC. Because it's not as easy to scaremonger about CC over rain and wind, not in Ireland anyway.

The scaremongering that is been going on is quite disgusting. We've had the best part of a weeks coverage of a heatwave that hasn't even happened. They've been talking about the heatwave in Spain, but everyone knows Spain always get's temps over 35+ in their summers. I'm not in the slightest bit concerned about 35 to 40 degree temps that won't last half a week anyway. I've experienced those temps living in a foreign country but a lot of older Irish people haven't and are being scaremongered by they media that they might die. I really hope the temps don't get as high as predicted because if they don't it would be a great opportunity to further bash the media over this scaremongering.

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345694#Comment_119345694

You really like making a laugh of things rather than actually discuss, I know. I'm not a climate change denier but the fact remains that three days of above normal temperatures is not a sign of climate change.

sporina

i bought a fan.. but not taken it out of the box yet.,.. and I have my receipt..

I wonder if I will need it at all

NIMAN

It'll take some heat tomorrow and Monday to dry out all the rain that's been lashing down here the last 2 hrs.

hunter2000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119346875#Comment_119346875

You should educate yourself on climate change and fast.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119346626#Comment_119346626

The temperatures will be in the 30s in parts. Possible records broken. Admittedly it’s short, but intense. Also 29 is pretty high for Ireland.

Of course the record temperatures in Europe are worth talking about, as are the potentials for record temperatures in the U.K. and even Ireland. Local and daily records will be broken in Ireland. The overall record is 100+ years old.

as for today. It wasn’t predicted to be that hot.

AllForIt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119346905#Comment_119346905

lol

AllForIt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119347078#Comment_119347078

Yeah, but the record high temperature in Ireland goes back to the late 1800's. So what was the reason for the high temps back then, when there was flip all industrialization.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119347200#Comment_119347200

It was an anomaly. In most of Europe records will be broken in the next few days, in the U.K. they expect all time records to be broken on Monday, and those records broken again Tuesday. Records in the U.K. go back centuries.

Pussyhands

Records are made the broken ☺️