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UK Met Office provisionally reports hottest-ever temperature in Northern Ireland

Temperatures of 31.2 degrees Celsius were recorded in Co Down today.

THE UK MET Office has reported what is provisionally the hottest temperature ever recorded in Northern Ireland.

The record is believed to have been broken in Co Down, where a temperature of 31.2 degrees Celsius was recorded this afternoon.

The Met Office wrote on Twitter today: “Today is provisionally the hottest day ever recorded in Northern Ireland. Ballywatticock in County Down reached 31.2 °C at 15.40.”

“Previously, 30.8 °C was the highest temperature recorded in Northern Ireland, reached on 12th July 1983 and 30th June 1976.”

The new record will have to be verified before it is officially deemed Northern Ireland’s hottest day on record.

As well as Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales all recorded their provisionally hottest day of the year so far.

The Republic of Ireland also had its hottest day of 2021 so far, with temperatures of 28.2 degrees recorded in Roscommon.

Today did not mark the island’s hottest day on record, however: the highest temperature ever recorded on the island of Ireland is 33.3 degrees Celsius in Kilkenny in 1887.

England and south Wales are forecast to see temperatures as high as 33 degrees on Sunday.

Today, Wales moved to COVID restriction level one, meaning that rules on the number of people that can meet outdoors have been lifted.

The good weather is set to continue into the lifting of covid restrictions in England on Monday – dubbed “freedom day”.

Tom Morgan, a meteorologist at the Met Office, told Sky News: “We have got quite an extended hot spell of weather to come through the next several days lasting much of this week, nighttime temperatures will be in the high teens Celsius and daytime temperatures will be in the high twenties or low thirties.

“It’s going to mean that people are really going to feel the effects of the heat as we go through this week.”

Earlier this month, meteorologists in the Nordic countries registered near-record temperatures, including highs of 34 degrees Celsius in some places.

The latest figures came after Finland’s national meteorological institute registered its hottest temperature for June since records began in 1844.

Kevo, at the far north of Finland, recorded heat of 33.5 degrees Celsius, the hottest since 1914 when authorities registered 34.7 degrees Celsius.

Several parts of Sweden also reported record highs for last month.

“June 2021 was the hottest June ever recorded in my hometown Stockholm by a large margin,” climate campaigner Greta Thunberg tweeted.

“The second hottest June was in 2020. The third in 2019,” she added.

Several parts of the world have already experienced crushing heatwaves this year.

Canada battled a string of forest fires in the western province of British Columbia after sweltering under temperatures of up to 49.6 degrees Celsius, a new national record.

Commenting on the Canadian heatwave, meteorologist Scott Duncan tweeted: “I didn’t think it was possible, not in my lifetime anyway. Not so, countered climatologist, Prof Robert Brulle, who wrote: “These (2021) records will fall as climate change accelerates! This is just a mild version of what we can expect in the future.”

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:06 PM

    Hey Journal, for those of us who won’t be in a position to see it straight away, please; no spoilers. Like many I’ve waited 32 years to catch up with Luke, Han, Leia & Chewie. We won’t mention the prequels…

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:16 PM

    I wonder one day will Disney and JJ Abrams be able to de-Jar Jar the prequels and release a special edition where Anakin isn’t so whingey…

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    Mute Chris Judge
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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:21 PM

    “please; no spoilers”

    You’re probably safer just avoiding the internet until you see it.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:31 PM

    But, avoiding the internet is impossible. If you use Google chrome, there’s a few extensions you can use that will block any possible spoilers.

    This will block all star wars related stuff.
    http://wap.engadget.com/2015/12/15/star-wars-spoiler-blocker-chrome/

    Or there’s another where you can change what to block, so useful for everything and not just Star Wars:
    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unspoiler/oookgbbhgojdebhnmkmhgfagoiknifgi

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    Dec 15th 2015, 1:48 PM

    Jar Jar Binks could actually have been an interesting character… rather than just a very racist stereotype:
    http://www.cracked.com/video_19728_how-internet-fixed-star-wars-prequels.html

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:31 PM

    Luke wakes up in the shower and realised the last 40 years was a dream?

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:55 PM

    FROM MY POINT OF VIEW THE JEDIS ARE EVIL!!! Worst line ever. Great light sabre fight though.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:13 PM

    Hopefully no spoilers will get out,I still haven’t gotten over people spoiling Titanic by saying the ship sank in the end

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:59 PM

    The butler did it.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:32 PM

    It didn’t sink, J.P. Morgan sold it as scrap and he insured it well for himself too…

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    Dec 15th 2015, 8:47 PM

    That is a joke by the way…

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:08 PM

    Any Spoilers……I will find you and I will kill you….

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:20 PM

    The bad guy is Luke’s son

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:21 PM

    Wrong movie, and they take his wife

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:26 PM

    He dies in the end

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:29 PM

    Kermit the frog and says to Luke, you are my father?

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    Dec 15th 2015, 11:56 AM

    It is unbelievable how good it is…

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:21 PM

    Live long and prosper

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:10 PM

    I was one of the lucky few to attend a private screening and it was EPIC!
    I didn’t expect Han Solo to die of a chronic case of Aldebron Piles though.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 1:13 PM

    The last scene is amazing…. Who would have thought Jar Jar Binks was really Luke’s father ???

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:28 PM

    passes the bechdel test.

    thejournal never fails to get a liberal feminist dig in.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:24 PM

    Did Luke pass his repeat Jedi exams yet?

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:33 PM

    He passed something, it had to be tested, lol.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:12 PM

    Perhaps getting reviews from crazy excited fans happy just to be there is a bad idea for expectations. I think a critical view might be better from a journalism perspective.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:21 PM

    How dare you bring logic and reason to the Journal.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:20 PM

    It’s sad that people watch movies testing if they pass that Bechdel shit

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:23 PM

    I haven’t seen any of the films. Are they any good?

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    Dec 15th 2015, 1:41 PM

    No

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    Dec 15th 2015, 12:03 PM

    I’m fully prepared for lots of poetic rhyming with the original trilogy, fan service and general enjoyment followed by an uneasy sense of disappointment. If it exceeds this then I’ll admit that I’ve misjudged JJ.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 3:00 PM

    Should I watch any of the previous ones for this new one to make sense? I’d like to see it but I want to understand it. I haven’t seen any of the movies.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 3:29 PM

    @ignoreland he could have been and a lot less annoying too if he wasn’t a cgi caricature. What was Lucas thinking. I really don’t know

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:27 PM

    In a toilet far far away, use the force Luke…

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:26 PM

    I loved it when they blew off his legs, lol.

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:36 PM

    Anyone else think some scenes resembled Skellig Mikel?

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    Dec 15th 2015, 7:57 PM

    That was the most whimsical jape of the season old bean.

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