Hot Spell - Saturday 16th July onwards

Down in Clare for the weekend, beautiful weather on the beach today, sea breeze was very light when it eventually started around 3pm, before that there was a southerly which wasn’t really a problem on a north western facing beach . Cannot believe the amount of people heading into rip currents on body boards getting pulled out. Lifeguards have been busy all day.

Feels very continental this evening in Leitrim. Time to crack open a bottle of wine.

Enjoy the weather everyone. We very seldom get this type of evening.

This illustrates my point perfectly. Health & Safety gone mad.

Smashing day in West cork. Got to about 24/25 but felt a lot warmer, breeze was warm and was on the beach and swimming all day. Came out of the water and wasn't even cold, that's rare!

My brother in law works as a refuse collector. Its an extremely physically demanding job and doing it in 30c temperatures would nor be much fun at all.

Fair play to the company for letting their staff work hours that help them avoid the hottest part of the day

27 degrees at Dublin Airport at 7pm, unbelievable 😎.

We headed to Portmarnock today, unfortunately the wind there was unbelievable🙄.

Everything was absolutely and I mean absolutely covered in sand by time we got home. Ah well we still had a great day.

There's a REALLY strong breeze here in South Dublin Firhouse.....if the temperature wasn't so warm it'd be very unpleasant.

Does anyone know why this is so?

Was looking at various weather apps and it's supposed to be 9-12km/h but feels at least double that and ME app says 21km/h which seems much more accurate, but I'm just wondering where it's coming from.....

Max

Temp today was 29.5

The logical side of me without looking at charts is telling me that there should be a high risk of lots of precipitation. But I know the charts have backed off a bit. Anyway we'll see. Atm they're giving the thunderstorm risk moving in to waterford from the sea Tuesday and then maybe later on wexford, wicklow. I think really these are a bit too chaotic to forecast properly. I hope.

Forgive my stupidity but why are temps so much higher in the mid / north east when the warmest uppers are spreading from the south? Sometimes seems that the more I find out, the less I know....

Breeze?

Correlation between upper temperature and ground level temps is low, so not im sure why there's so much focus on it...

Fairly gusty out the back in D24. Top still off though so all good. I recommend everyone to increase their alcohol intake to ensure a solid sleep tonight.

Nit at all, there’s a fog moving in from the west coast and reaching the midlands later. Perceived temperature is very difficult to measure, lots of elements come into it but fog = humidity which is an important one.

Wine Goddess, I've no idea but that's what it was like on Portmarnock today, the breeze or more like gale was unreal.

We have a beach tent and even when my husband had it facing the right way away from wind the gusts in it were still unreal.

Loads of things were flying down the beach and everyone was absolutely covered in sand.

It was very localised though, at home in our back garden barely a puff of breeze.