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road_high · 30-06-2018 04:29PM

Hooter23 wrote: »

I can see now why countries in the Mediterranean have a Siesta in the afternoon this weather would wreck ya:pac:

I’ve been going into work much earlier these days, only way to get anything done and can see why they do this in Spain and places

harr · 30-06-2018 04:47PM

A lot more heavy out today, bit of a breeze out but indoors is a killer , barely a breath of air..

Pa ElGrande · 30-06-2018 04:57PM

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Beautiful here in Carrick-on-Shannon. Some cumuli tried to bubble up earlier but didn't get far and now it's clear skies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abFJuqp867g

JCX BXC · 30-06-2018 05:09PM

21.7c in West Clare currently, however 71% humidity, as opposed to 25-35% all week.

Graces7 · 30-06-2018 05:10PM

Please read rte report.. https://www.rte.ie/news/weather/2018/0630/974334-ireland-heatwave/

2. Restrict unnecessary water useage and ensure a supply throughout the summer even if it stays dry.

I can't see anything about a current shortage except by second rate "journalists" in tabloid rags.[/QUOTE]

Graces7 · 30-06-2018 05:15PM

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

Exactly,give his name when you are asked while reporting it.
There's really some absolute fook wits in this country.

Years ago a man near me set a fire near his home. Way out in the country, during the no fire season..

I was thinking I needed to report it when there were two great explosions and thick black smoke billowed.. called it in.

Later I learned that everyone for miles around saw it and did nothing.. that he had set his shed on fire, where the oil tank was. Could have been killed. Someone has to call it in!

Fann Linn · 30-06-2018 05:20PM

Mars Bar wrote: »

Our gombeen of a neighbour has lit a bonfire in his garden near some trees.

Call the gardai. There was a red warning issued to local authorities by Chief Fire Officers last week prohibiting all fires until further notice.

RobertKK · 30-06-2018 05:22PM

The temperature has been rising her for the past hour, currently 29.8C, virtually calm conditions and blue skies.

RobertKK · 30-06-2018 05:24PM

What is the difference between fine and fair on Met Eireann reports?

nthclare · 30-06-2018 05:25PM

JCX BXC wrote: »

21.7c in West Clare currently, however 71% humidity, as opposed to 25-35% all week.

Not where I am, are you sitting in a freezer ?

pad199207 · 30-06-2018 05:27PM

RobertKK wrote: »

What is the difference between fine and fair on Met Eireann reports?

Fine is a clear sunny sky, fair is scattered clouds but not partly cloudy

JCX BXC · 30-06-2018 05:28PM

nthclare wrote: »

Not where I am, are you sitting in a freezer ?

Where are you?

Itssoeasy · 30-06-2018 05:32PM

It's not turned cold here in cork but it's certainly clouded over and dropped in temperature a bit.

CeilingFly · 30-06-2018 05:34PM

Graces7 wrote: »

Please read rte report.. https://www.rte.ie/news/weather/2018/0630/974334-ireland-heatwave/

2. Restrict unnecessary water useage and ensure a supply throughout the summer even if it stays dry.

I can't see anything about a current shortage except by second rate "journalists" in tabloid rags.

[/QUOTE]

Did you give a link to a correct report? Nothing in that to say there is a shortage, rather it is correctly saying that to manage supply restrictions are to be put in place.

And its rte and not a sensationalist rag, hence its a more reliable source of news.

sryanbruen · 30-06-2018 05:50PM

In spite of it feeling chillier, it's still a grand day, not bad at all. This is a reflection of what a beautiful month June was. Think I'd have to say that it's my favourite June I've experienced in my life so far beating 2010.

Been out to Howth today.

sdanseo · 30-06-2018 06:02PM

Just drove up through the Sally Gap. Gorse on fire everywhere, flames right out to the side of the road at one point. Visibility was getting poor and there are few safe turning places on the Military Road, so I was about to turn back, but came upon a Fire Officer in a jeep and asked him if it was safe to go on. He said that it was but he followed me out and when we got down to the Sally Gap itself he had coned off the road. Had to moved the cones to get out and presumably he replaced them behind me.

Forgot to hit record on the dashcam at that point but this pic from the M11 shows how dry everyting is. You'd be forgiven for mistaking it for Spain:
(no, not hogging the overtaking lane, just passed a car

)

Xenji · 30-06-2018 06:04PM

A cloudier afternoon today in Castlebar, it reached 27.8 earlier in the day, but only 22.3C currently with a slight breeze out, twice as humid today then the last 3 days when it got over 30C here.

road_high · 30-06-2018 06:09PM

Coming out of the winter we had, there was a lot of dead old vegetation around and that’s become like a tinder box in this heat. Not surprised by all the fires we are having

Kermit.de.frog · 30-06-2018 06:16PM

Status Yellow - High-Temperature warning for Munster and Leinster
On Sunday, temperatures in excess of 27 degrees are expected in parts of Leinster and Munster.

Issued: Saturday 30 June 2018 11:00

Updated: Saturday 30 June 2018 11:00

Valid from Saturday 30 June 2018 11:00 to Sunday 01 July 2018 21:00

https://www.met.ie/warnings

JanuarySnowstor · 30-06-2018 06:25PM

I would think the nationwide hose ban is imminent this evening....
With no end in sight and heat re intensifing next week water will quickly empty in resorvoirs
As for the farmers.....

Sycamore Tree · 30-06-2018 06:25PM

Galway beaches look chilly for tomorrow going by that map.

Oneiric 3 · 30-06-2018 06:46PM

Highest temperature today was 28 point something in Athenry - Joan Blackburn.

Cantona's Collars · 30-06-2018 06:47PM

Sycamore Tree wrote: »

Galway beaches look chilly for tomorrow going by that map.

Nah,just back to normal Irish summer.

Saw the BBC's forecast and from the looks of it thunderstorms and showers reaching Cornwall and South Wales at best by tomorrow evening before petering out. The East and SE of Ireland looking like staying fine and dry again while the West has more cloud cover.

Cantona's Collars · 30-06-2018 06:51PM

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Highest temperature today was 28 point something in Athenry - Joan Blackburn.

We may change the ballad from Low lie the fields to Burnt are the fields of Athenry.

nthclare · 30-06-2018 06:52PM

JCX BXC wrote: »

Where are you?

I was in Quilty

Oneiric 3 · 30-06-2018 06:54PM

Xenji wrote: »

A cloudier afternoon today in Castlebar, it reached 27.8 earlier in the day, but only 22.3C currently with a slight breeze out, twice as humid today then the last 3 days when it got over 30C here.

Temps a more modest mid 20s at the moment here but feels even dirtier and stickier than the last few days which is saying a lot.

Rougies · 30-06-2018 06:57PM

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Temps a more modest mid 20s at the moment here but feels even dirtier and stickier than the last few days which is saying a lot.

I've been dreading the inevitable rise in humidity. I think the east will get our comeuppance next week after all these low humidy mid 20s sea breeze days. Some freaks will like it though.

Calibos · 30-06-2018 07:05PM

So the Costa Del Bray is to get hotter not cooler over the next few days!!!???

SleetAndSnow · 30-06-2018 07:06PM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

It's not turned cold here in cork but it's certainly clouded over and dropped in temperature a bit.

We had that all day down on the west cork coast, however it’s now after brightening up and no longer cloudy! Temps rose massively too.

iamwhoiam · 30-06-2018 07:09PM

Lovely refreshing breeze on Rush beach today , a welcome relief from the much warmer south west Dublin

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