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We had the coldest July for years, figures show

One weather station recorded its lowest average temperature since 1965 – and there were also fewer hours of sunshine.

IT HASN’T BEEN much of a summer – and some areas of the country experienced the coldest July for almost 50 years, according to figures from Met Éireann.

Most parts of Ireland had temperatures 0.5°C to 1°C below average, while the weather station at Dublin Airport showed its coolest July readings for 46 years with a mean air temperature of just 13.8°C. Meanwhile a reading taken at Casement Aerodrome outside Dublin was the lowest in July for the last 27 years, and Cork Airport had its lowest since 1965.

The month’s highest temperature of 24.4°C was recorded in Carlow on July 27.

Unsurprisingly, there was also less sunshine than usual across the country – except for the West, which bucked the trend. However, there was some good news: it was the driest July since 2005 in many parts of the country, and the driest for 12 years at Cork Airport.

A spokesperson for Met Éireann told TheJournal.ie that it was too early to confirm reports this morning that our summer has been the coldest for 50 years, as summer does not officially finish until the end of August. But as we’ve seen before, that can be a controversial issue.

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    Dec 5th 2020, 8:36 AM

    Why is the journal so quiet about Trump at the moment??
    It wouldn’t be to do with that video from Georgia that’s caused this unprecedented silence, would it?

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    Dec 5th 2020, 9:09 AM

    @Giddy: expand please

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    Dec 5th 2020, 9:37 AM

    @Giddy: who is Trump?

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    Dec 5th 2020, 10:01 AM

    @Margaret Deacon: https://youtu.be/LJ0xDWhWUxk

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    Dec 5th 2020, 10:08 AM

    @John Mulligan: Exactly what CNN have been doing lately, did you see the veritas tapes???? https://youtu.be/ZqtZIdwhnec
    haha, the media literally have been caught trying to keep all evidence of fraud from the public. The sheep are so easily led by the echo chamber they call news

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    Dec 5th 2020, 10:09 AM

    @Giddy: because it’s a non story

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    Dec 5th 2020, 10:52 AM

    @Random_paddy: Non story = Democrat media blackout.
    You’ve been told by CNN its a non story and like a good little sheep you follow…
    Did you not watch the links i posted, there’s clear evidence of fraud.
    Im just making a point that the Journal have been very silent on this video which is clearly very incriminating. Open your eyes.

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    Dec 5th 2020, 10:54 AM

    @Margaret Deacon: https://youtu.be/uW-z287KQzg

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    Dec 5th 2020, 11:07 AM

    @Giddy: media outlets biased is not a shocker really though is it?
    CNN favours the dems Fox favours the republicans. They don’t have neutral news anywhere especially in the states. That isn’t evidence of a rigged election though is it.
    Was there isolated incidents of fraud for the Democrats? Most likely. Was there incidents of vote fraud in favour or Republicans? Just as likely.
    No different than our own elections.
    But neither enough to affect the election in any meaningful way.
    He lost the election dude. Some things you are better off just letting go, instead of tormenting yourself over these conspiracies.

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    Dec 5th 2020, 11:21 AM

    @john doe: I waited 2 days for a Trump article to post about this, Couldn’t sleep the whole time, tormented isn’t the word haha
    But seriously did you watch the video?

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    Dec 5th 2020, 3:41 PM

    @Giddy: yes I watched it. It may be fraud, it may be something else altogether. It’s not conclusive evidence of anything. What makes you think based on that video that if they are sneaking in ballots that they are all for Biden?
    Couldn’t that just be where they had been storing some postal votes or votes from a remote polling station.
    A video of people moving suitcases around hardly means a rigged election does it?
    But as I said above, there is probably some level of fraud in every election. In this case lots of people have looked at it and decided that if there was some fraud it wasn’t enough to alter the result.

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    Dec 5th 2020, 4:36 PM

    @john doe:You’re probably right, they’ve found the smoking gun, now find the ballets…

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    Dec 5th 2020, 10:46 AM

    2 more drug dealers caught well done gardai

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    Dec 6th 2020, 8:16 AM

    Were do garda get the prices from ? Anyone know ?

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