Will Ireland ever reach temps of 30°C+ like continental Europe?

Ireland does reach 30C-32C on rare ocassions during some summer, but even when we do most places are still in the mid to high twenties. Temperatures of 30C and above are usually very localised and depend greatly on the direction of the wind and a direct hit from a perfect plume or sustained spell of high pressure mid summer with gentle south-easterly breezes.

Dublin has a very difficult time getting above 21C in May even during decent warm spells as those spells usually have an easterly component to them and even the smallest sea breeze can lower Dublin's temperature by 4 or 5C compared to western areas due to that chilly Irish sea. By June Dublin can start to warm up if conditions are perfect and up to 25 or 26 is possible. July and August Dublin can get to 28 or maybe 29C during the perfect but rare direct hit summer plume but even then any easterly would still shave a degree or two off the maximum potential.

Cork and Waterford would be similar to Dublin in that any sort of southerly breeze or even south-easterly would bring lower temperatures there off a fairly chilly sea.

Limerick is in a better position, due to it's westerly location as the majority of our warm spells have an easterly component to them. The nearby town of Shannon is often the hottest place in the country if those temperature records from Shannon are totally accurate. As mentioned above Shannon recorded 32C during the 2018 heatwave while most other places were still in the 20s.

Galway can get very warm too during summer warmer spells, they can do particularly well from those May and June warm spells while eastern areas can be substantially cooler at that time of the year due to the Irish sea breezes.

It is frustrating that most countries around Europe including the Uk seem to break heat records regularly over recent times while Ireland does not appear to do. Most warm spells here are not direct hits and instead we get side swiped or the Atlantic takes over just as the warm air arrives.

Our island's land area is just not big enough to regularly reach 30C or more over a wider area. We are surrounded by the cool and vast Atlantic ocean to our west, north and perhaps to our south too which then joins up with the Bay of Biscay. We do not tap into hot southerlies like the UK can as we have close to 1000km of water to our south while they have less than 40km between them in France across the south-east.

We depend on that perfectly aligned windflow from a direct hit plume going from central Europe across the channel to the Uk and then across to Ireland from wales and southern England. That sort of sea track is no more than 150km in total but they need to happen preferably in mid July or August to weaken the temperature cooldown from the Irish sea.

I don't see our all time and ancient temperature record of 33C being broken any time soon or indeed in my lifetime. In order to do so we would probably need several days of sustained 20C+ uppers across the country with unbroken gin blue skies and very light winds and I am not sure this is even possible in this country.