Irelands heatwave media coverage

It'll be the hottest summer on record...for a couple of days. This doesn't equate to climate change in my book. The UK media are every bit a bad .

I'm off for my annual celebratory sunshine pedal. This will be followed by a brief power nap and a few beers to unwind.

Climate change pedal and crank

Even if it's not "too" anything there is a constant feed of news about mildly unusual weather events from around the world to keep the fear going

Why would he going to another country to cover something. Should every the economist journalist go to every country to follow that.

As in relation to the record temperature for 1 it is a bit over the top but people need to be careful and not go nuts sunburn or sunstroke is no joke. Also weather's been very good for the last while so hardly 1 day

#StaySafe

Exactly we have had great weather which is nice and great to be out in

The heatwave originally was forecasted to last many more days. That has changed, thankfully . Weather forecasts change.

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday will be mid to late ‘20’s.. very hot for sure but not a skin frying apocalypse..in the mid 30’s that some were forecasting going back.

He's not the economist journalist in RTE since he left took a career break to join Fine Gael in 2009, he is Environment Correspondent for RTE since he returned, the issues in Netherlands concern actions taken by the government on farmers there to control 'climate change' which would fall in to the topic of Environment. The events there are being whitewashed by the media here and not covered.

RTE sent Fergal Bowers, (their health journalist) and a camera crew to Alicante last week to cover an Irish person having such an everyday procedure as a hip replacement for circa 1 minute of an interview, absolutely no need to be covered...

I’ll genuinely be surprised if temperatures reach 30°C on Monday.

I did mean to say he was the economist it was meant to be a separate point as should an economist journalist go everywhere for everthing in relation to it.

In relation to the Bowers you do realise it was about a hospital opening for Irish patients on a waiting so of course they sent someone. (Did you even read the story)

Why should RTE sent someone in relation to protests. Do they send some for every protests. Because it farmers because its environment. There will likely be a Ryanair strike by some unions in Spain next week do we send someone to that.

Yes, I see that on the map, you might be lucky and escape the showers.

Yep, some guy on today fm yesterday talking about a "heat dome" building and it will be like a self feeding furnace that could settle over the country for a few weeks,

Such horse ****.

Who is exactly making up the weather forecast. Dull here in tipperary for Past two hours. Now it's raining plus temperature today was easy surpassed a few weeks ago by warmer weather. And now they telling us something big on the way..stay indoors...albeit its only 29 to 30 for two Days. Then be lucky to get 18 to 20degreess from Wed on .. foreigners here are laughing at us ...and our over the top panic...I blame it on the covid or the vaccine. Its messing with our brain

I went out at walk at 3pm, in shorts and a t-shirt. Nice and warm.

Came back an hour later in the rain. Soaked.

Kinda sums up irish summer weather.

We had one of the worst Junes I can remember. I didn't sit on the garden bench once, or have reason to wear sorts or a t-shirt outdoors. If bad weather is a result of CC then why didn't the media say the bad weather we had in June is a result of CC. Because it's not as easy to scaremonger about CC over rain and wind, not in Ireland anyway.

The scaremongering that is been going on is quite disgusting. We've had the best part of a weeks coverage of a heatwave that hasn't even happened. They've been talking about the heatwave in Spain, but everyone knows Spain always get's temps over 35+ in their summers. I'm not in the slightest bit concerned about 35 to 40 degree temps that won't last half a week anyway. I've experienced those temps living in a foreign country but a lot of older Irish people haven't and are being scaremongered by they media that they might die. I really hope the temps don't get as high as predicted because if they don't it would be a great opportunity to further bash the media over this scaremongering.

i bought a fan.. but not taken it out of the box yet.,.. and I have my receipt..

I wonder if I will need it at all

Yeah, but the record high temperature in Ireland goes back to the late 1800's. So what was the reason for the high temps back then, when there was flip all industrialization.