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THE HEATWAVE-LEVEL temperatures that have been enjoyed this week will continue today – but some places will see showers.
Met Éireann classifies a heatwave as five days with temperatures over 25 degrees and today will top out at 28.
The heat has seen Met Éireann extend a status yellow heat warning until 10pm tonight.
Today is forecast to bring temperatures in excess of 27 degrees Celsius in Connacht, Munster and parts of south Leinster, Met Éireann says, but there is “the risk of the odd shower in the west or northwest”.
“However, it will be slightly cooler with top temperatures around 22 to 26 degrees in parts of the east and south in the light to moderate easterly breeze and also near western coasts in sea breezes.”
The warm weather is not expected to let up any time soon, with tomorrow expected to hit 28 degrees. Looking ahead to next week, warm weather will continue with hazy sunshine, but not as hot as this week.
The heat has forced Irish Water to put a hosepipe ban in place in the Greater Dublin Area from Monday.
As demand continues to outstrip supply and the warm weather looks set to continue, Irish Water said it has taken the extra step to use the legal options open to it.
Irish Water said it will examine the over 100 at risk schemes around the country for possible application of a Water Conservation Order.
The HSE’s advice is for people to stay out of the sun between 11am and 3pm and to apply sunscreen if you have to go out in the sun, and avoid extreme physical exertion like sport, DIY or gardening when the sun is at its hottest.
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I think the decision to ask people to stay off the roads was a major contributor to the low death toll .
Well done to all the emergency services and to companies who instructed staff to stay home .
Condolences to the families of those who lost loved ones .
@Paddy Hayden: no doubt as also did closing schools/crèches etc. I was put at 8 yesterday morning and it was like Christmas Day. Popped to shop about 11 and it was like an off license on Christmas Eve. The winds were at their worst in the early hours of this morning in north fingal
I agree Paddy. Well done to all. Does anybody feel that those who defied the advice and went swimming or whatever, should be charged with sone type of public order offence ? Like it was crazy to do what some did – idiots !
@Chris Gavican: yes
@Chris Gavican: send them the bill for their rescue, and pursue them through the courts for payment. Might deter other Darwin Award nominees.
@Chris Gavican: They should be made to pay whatever it costs to bring out the emergency services. To unnecessarily put others’ lives at risk, whatever about the stupidity of risking their own lives is criminally reckless.
The pictures of shoppers in Tesco and Lidl are hugely informative. Who knew that is how people shopped in a storm?
@roderick:
Roofs blown off and structural damage in Cork, meanwhile shoppers in Dublin stocked up on their lattes….
@Avina Laaf: I mean it was just one day!
@Avina Laaf: The builders in Cork must be cowboys then. They should learn how to build properly.
It was only one day of the storm but for people living in the country which is where most of the damage was done, it’s up to 10 days without power which also means no water and roads still blocked, so maybe for a change people on here should think of those outside of Dublin.
In fairness the queues are always like that in lidl in Thomas St
The biggest storm I remember was on the night of 31 January 1974. There were 3, 100-year old trees down across the Monkstown road (Co. Dublin). The road was closed for 3 days. On the Vico road above Whiterock beach most of the wires were down from the poles on the road. I lost count of the number of fallen trees I saw all around Co. Dublin. A new housing estate in Portmarnock had most of the roof tiles stripped from many houses. I was driving at 1.30 AM along the Stillorgan road near Foxrock and the trees were meeting each other from both sides of the road forming a tunnel. That road was a much narrower dual carriageway in those days. I’m amazed that this storm is never mentioned when big storms are talked about on radio or television. I have never experienced winds or storms as bad as that one.
So, there was a storm in dublin and cork yesterday, the rest of the country was very lucky !!!
@eamonn farrell: well said eamonn, pics only show dublin and cork, as we know the rest of rural ireland does not matter in some eyes
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