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THE SUN HAS come out and warm temperatures are forecasted today countrywide, but counties in the east might have to wait to bathe in the heat until this evening.
Forecasters in Met Éireann, the national meteorological service, have said the public can expect some fine weather this June Bank Holiday weekend.
Swimmers at Forty Foot in Sandycove, Dublin made good use of the sun and warm temperatures this morning while water temperatures in the atlantic, according to the Ballybunion Buoy in Co Kerry, have reached a mild 13.5 degrees.
The good weather will continue throughout the weekend, with temperatures reaching 20 degrees in some parts of the country.
Counties in the east can expect some cloudy conditions in the earliest part of the day today, but the sun will appear in the late afternoon and evening, making for some good backyard-barbeque weather.
Some of the warmest temperatures today are expected in the south of the country, with clear skies forecasted in counties like Kerry and Cork. Dry conditions and warm temperatures are also expected nationwide this evening.
Tomorrow, the good weather will return for most of the country.
Some light, patchy rain or drizzle will feed in from the northwest (so, if you’re in Ulster, maybe take the clothes off the line in this evening).
Counties in the south and southeast will continue to have the warmest and driest weather tomorrow, reaching 20 degrees in some parts with light breezes.
Don’t go mad on the sausages however, as counties in the midlands and southeast could see some rain on Monday as the rain clouds pass over the country.
Ulster will have the best of the weather on Monday, with the highest temperatures reaching 20 degrees.
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Eamon Ryan will be out shouting at the sun no doubt….
@Matt D: summer… Christmas and new years…best 3 days of the year
@Matt D: he’ll find a tax for it.
@Matt D:In collaboration with your buddys Harris and the Bertie Kisser.
Hose pipe ban on the way.
Cold and no sun in Meath
@Kerry Mink: Yeah, I kind of missed the “hottest month since records began” news for May. Maybe (no pun intended) it wasn’t published, maybe it was.
But maybe it didn’t happen but that alone might have been too good news to publish? However, a balanced, non bias reporting owes the world such a news item, doesn’t it?
Even sunshine enrages the trolls
@John D Doe: awesome
At sunrise, a person and their location rotate across the light hemisphere of the Earth until they pass through the planet’s divisor and into the dark hemisphere. Noon is when they are halfway in time and distance across the light hemisphere, known as the middle of the day.
Although the North Pole does not rotate as part of the daily cycle, it too rotates into the light hemisphere on the March Equinox and takes six months to cross back into the dark hemisphere on the September Equinox. On the June Solstice, it is halfway in time and distance across the light hemisphere, known as the middle of summer or midsummer as it always was on this island when people had culture.
The idea of meteorological seasons (June 1st) is to block appreciation of the motions behind planetary climate.
@Gerald Kelleher: Happy first day of summer!!!
@Liam Holton: At the latitude of Dublin, the rotational speed of a person is 1000/km/hr.
At this time of year, from sunrise (5 AM) to sunset (9:30 PM), a person rotates through a distance of about 16,500 km.
It means that a person covers 8,250 km from sunrise to noon in their daily day/night cycle journey today. This wonderful fact is made possible by the recognition that the Earth is round and rotating, with a rotational speed at the equator of 1669.8 km/hr.
Then we have the dunces who say today is the first day of summer but can’t manage to grasp the basic fact of the round and rotating Earth.
https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/shadow-speed-and-earths-rotation
The swindle of the meteorological seasons is to keep people away from the motions that define climate at a planetary scale.
@Gerald Kelleher: Yawn
@Gerald Kelleher: Sweet Jesus!
@Gerald Kelleher: You’ve really got to grips with AI haven’t you?
@Tezmond McVicar:
I shrug at the dehumanising comments as I am, unfortunately, and through experience, the only person in the Journal comment section to affirm the planet turns once every 24 hours and a thousand times in a thousand 24-hour days. I wish it were different, but no amount of effort can convince readers of this fact.
The people who insist this is the first day of summer also insist humanity must control the planet’s temperature by doing or not doing something (climate change modelling). Their entire subculture is based on clockwork solar system modelling, which asserts that one 24-hour day is not one rotation of the planet through contrived reasoning. That, too, is an unfortunate fact.
People who pride themselves on being crude can be exceptionally cruel.
@Gerald Kelleher: Why do you think that I is better to measure the rotation of the earth against the sun and not against the stars? And why is it contrived reasoning to measure it against the stars?
@N M: The Sun is a star , our central star that provides the day/night cycle every 24 hours.
” It is a fact not generally known that, owing to the difference between solar and sidereal time, the Earth rotates upon its axis once more often than there are 24-hour days in the year” NASA /Harvard
Such is contrived reasoning that leads to the inability to affirm that not only is the Earth round but also a sphere.
You had to ask.
Blowing a gale in Donegal
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Wehooooooooooooooooo
A pizza is flat but also round.
To affirm that the Earth is round and also a sphere means recognising that its maximum circumference at the Equator is 40,075 km and that rotational speeds diminish to zero at the North and South Poles. This means that the Earth turns once every 24 hours, and its equatorial rotation velocity of 1669.8 km/h coincides with the longitude and 24-hour framework.
So, NASA and the academic community, including Met Eireann, are not flat Earth proponents, but they come as close as possible to that awful condition.
You must include its rotational characteristics to affirm that the Earth is round sphere and not like a pizza.
It is three weeks to midsummer, and there are specific technical details for that.
What could be more significant news than the horror that all scientific method modelling, including climate change modelling, rests on a conclusion no person should assent to?
For all the technological achievements of this era, it is also the Dark Ages when it comes to the highest form of interpretation between the planet’s motions and the Earth’s sciences.
Even allowing for exhibitionist comments, readers must have some self-respect and dignity by undoing the damage created a few hundred years ago by mathematical theorists?.
Being part of a subculture just slightly above a flat-earth conviction is horrible, no matter who tries to ignore it.
God help humanity.
@Gerald Kelleher:
A serious question. Gerald.
Is earth at risk of exploding,?
Humanity has fallen below a standard that can be considered civilised in these matters.
That is the cruelty
@Mary.E.: A serious answer.
The Nazis were technologically advanced and could type sentences like you can. They also followed the imperatives of Victorian natural selection to invade and exterminate.
There are people today, just as crude as the Nazis were, who follow a misadventure with the Earth science of climate.
@Gerald Kelleher: Wrong. A pizza can be any shape the maker wants it, typically square or elongated where home made using a baking tray. You were primed to believe a pizza is round, that’s all.
@Gerald Kelleher: You believe in the heliocentric spinning ball earth MODEL and yet you spam post every day to criticise modelling. Flat earthers however DO NOT have a model! You have no proof that earth is a spinning ball, earth rotation has never been measured. All those figures you quote are from a model. The spinning ball in a vacuum MODEL is a begging the question logical fallacy, with no evidence in physical reality, and requires one to believe the opposite of what their senses experience.
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