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THE SUMMER IS well and truly over, with cold temperatures forecast this weekend.
Met Éireann forecasts that tomorrow will be cool and bright, with showers spreading from Ulster to the rest of the country by the afternoon.
Temperatures will range in the low teens during the day, before dipping between 5 and 10 degrees in the evening.
The weekend as a whole will be fairly dry, but will feel a good deal cooler than recent weeks.
Saturday will be even colder than Friday, although it will be mainly dry with sunny spells at first before scattered heavy showers develop in some areas.
It will turn “rather cold” overnight, according to Met Éireann, with air temperatures typically ranging between 2 and 6 degrees, and ground temperatures going below zero in rural areas.
The temperatures are set to pick up again to the mid-teens on Sunday, with just a few showers likely in the north and east of the country.
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The Summer is over? It never came!!
@Brian Ó Dálaigh: it has been a great summer and I wore shorts for most of it.
Still not sure where it is supposed to be freezing?
@Brian Ó Dálaigh: The weather is changing, I say sack George Hook.
@Gillian Weir Scully: A great summer? Maybe on the east coast. In the northwest we’ve had only 4 days without rain in the last 60 days. Before that, while the east coast was bathed in sunshine and temperatures in the high 20s, we had 2 or 3 days of sunshine and low 20s temperatures. The rest of the good weather you may have had was cloudy for us.
@Gillian Weir Scully: it’s the first summer I never got a chance to go to the beach on a Sunday. Every Sunday for the entire summer was bad.
@Brian Ó Dálaigh: temperature was pretty good, I haven’t had the pleasure of having my stove on think April was the last time I lit it up, it’s been dry enough
@Brian Ó Dálaigh: ah it did to be fair, we had a few hours here and there
@WynnnerZ: I’ve had to have the stove on every night over the summer. The temperatures have been grand. Not high like in the East, but still warm. But, it has been so wet that without the fires on my house would probably be infested with mold without them. I haven’t been able to get into my back garden in two months without sinking 4 or 5 inches into the ground. I’ve honestly never seen a worse summer in my 34 years. I would have far preferred a cool dry summer to the wet warm one we got.
Winter is coming!
@Arnold Lane: just cooler rain
The record numbers of homeless could be in for a long and cold winter.
Not a good time for the homeless, will someone else die from the cold in the 21st century, waiting on Leo Varadakars spin (propaganda) to say it was down to complex reasons.
So theres rain, a drop in temperature, dry weather, sunny spells, temperature rising to mid teens and a cold snap on the way. The shotgun approach to weather forecasting.. never fails..
@EdmundOrlando: you should go to Florida Orlando.
The fruit will be dropping from the trees, so!
You’d swear it was almost autumnal weather…
Complete lies,its a balmy 27 degrees with the heating blazing…mind you i did see crimbo lights and Santa on sale….
@David Dineen: I know in Brown Thomas! Are they so desperate for money they can’t wait for December? Sigh…bar humbugs already.
Saw some fiend coming out of the shop yesterday with a bale of briquettes and thought to myself won’t be long now til I light a fire.
@Jamie McCormack: Arson is not the solution.
Yes,it’s nothing to extreme though,unless you are homeless and wondering whether you will survive another Winter,
@Brian O Reilly: Sure there’s plenty of emergency shelters!
Stayed up working til the wee hours this morning and had to put the heat on. Twas nippy.
When can we start demanding weather forecasters apologise and then sack them for not saying what we want to hear?
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