Spring 2026 - General Discussion

a meteorological milestone! the first ‘official’ 30c ever outside June July and August and astonishingly a full month before the earliest 30c ever recorded as Sryan pointed out.

I want thunderstorms not rain I love them

Just saw this reported......THE RECORD HIGH temperature for the month of May in Ireland has been provisionally broken once again, with Met Éireann recording 30.7C at its Clonmel climate station in Co Tipperary.

It's still hard for me to grasp how it got so hot so quickly. A sitting high with a bit of a continental flow. It doesn't look that out of the ordinary.

In June 1995 it took almost a week of high pressure to build temperatures to 30C.

Yeah but rain comes with thunderstorms

May v September for heat and records is interesting. September has the heat lag and warmer seas. However, the sun rises at 6.40 and sets at 20.15 around 1st September. A day length of 13hrs and 35min.

Today, 26th May, the sun rises at 5.15 and sets at 21.37. A day length of 16hrs 22min.

2hrs 37min longer.

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That is utter nonsense. It's not even mostly about occasional records like today, though they are symptoms and will become more frequent as time goes on. It's about average temperatures, including night ones. Feb, March and April this year were all between 0.6C and 1.1C above the average for those months for the 1991-2020 period, when we had plenty of weather stations. 10 out of 12 months last year were over 1C above the same averages. That's a massive change, in a very short time. In 2023, it was 9 months out of 12.

Monthly Data - Met Éireann - The Irish Meteorological Service

who's to say that temperatures taken in the past werent too high? Our record of 33.3c seems a bit dodgy to me. Earliest in the year 26th June 1887 before today to reach 30c and it broke it by 3 3c.

Cork should be included in this heat warning. Readily 28/29 throughout the city and county!! Why not just up a Nationwide one and cut out this nonsense of county ones, particularly for this event

I presume Cork beat it's all time record today, anyone??? For all of Summer not just May

Tomorrow's will have rain but I've had plenty of dry thunderstorms here in Ireland rare but they do happen

I had a long 3 and a half hour drive today. Countryside looking great in the sun.

I was so grateful I got the air con in the car fixed last year.

As Dazler said, not always. The best thunderstorm since 1986 occurred in my area of Meath on the night of August 14th 2022. Lots of tropical type gusty winds with lightening every 3 seconds and not a drop of rain.

The temperature record been broken again is phenomenal. A couple of decades back (outside of 1995) and 25C seemed the magic hot number. Now 30C is the new magic number.

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