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WHERE HAS THE Irish summer been? Hiding behind a cloud, that’s where.
But it looks like we might get a brief taster of summer weather this week – although nothing like the record-breaking temperatures experienced in the USA this week.
According to Peter O’Donnell at Irish Weather Online, many places in Ireland could reach 23 – 24°C today if the sun “cooperates”.
Tomorrow, weather in the eastern and central counties could turn from cloudy to sunny with highs of 23 – 27°C, and highs in the west of 18 – 23°C.
By Thursday, the temperature could reach 21°C, nicely gearing us up for a weekend of sun, with sunny Friday promising highs of 20 – 24°C.
Saturday, says the site, “may be the warmest day of the period” with some places maybe hitting 27 or 28 degrees centigrade around the southeast of the country.
The warm spell will continue through Sunday and, apparently, onto the beginning of August, before the inevitable mid-week showers start again.
So grab your shorts, sun-cream, hang sangwiches and beach parasol and make the most of the brief sunrays that we might get this week.
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Thanks Adam – I think my subconscious was getting too excited at the thought of good weather!
spelling mistake, ” between 23-237c ” 23 is optimistic enough but 237 is just mistake
AccuWeather.com shows a completely different story, with a continuation of the cloudy, showery, occasionally sunny mix we have had for the last month.
My post was deleted. Obviously they think I am a spammer posting links! Sorry :)
The sun ain’t cooperating here in Ashford. :-(
Thats right,dash our hopes
I love summer in Ireland, it’s my favourite day of the year….
And Aoife, I’ve never had hang sandwiches before….mmmmm, they sound really interesting!! give us the ingredients, go on! :)
Oh dash it, here I had fond images of hanging bread on the line to be toasted by the sun whilst a little choir of angels sing their joy at the brightness of the day! ;). Thanks for educating me the two Aoife’s, it would be a sad day when you don’t learn something new!
Forgive my pessimist outlook but since April Ive been waiting for a few consecutive days of sunshine. To no avail, I take any weather forecast with a pinch of salt as no one seems to get it right.
Tsk, tsk, predictive text .. ‘hang sangwiches’ they sound even better then hang sandwiches…I imagine a little angelic choir figures somewhere with the sangwiches!
Hey Kathy, it was a joke about what some people call ‘ham sandwiches’ ;)
A pretty well-known joke-spelling/pronunciation based on some country pronunciation of the word. (I don’t know where from or if anyone ever really says it for real.)
I need to move. I know 80*F is hot there, but we’re averaging over 100*F here in Texas.
Check temperature for Friday…20 – 14*C???
So where’s this heatwave Mr O’Donnell?
Not going to happen. 16 degeees and raining for Saturday. I don’t know why anyone takes this Canadian guy seriously. Pluse he’s a climatologist (very long term stiuff) not a meterologist..
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