“UNBROKEN SUNSHINE” – IN a bizarre turn of events, it’s a phrase Ireland’s beginning to become familiar with, following a prolonged period of unusually warm weather. And, according to Met Éireann, there’ll be more of it about today.
Temperatures for much of the country will be in the mid- to high- twenties, but it will be a little cooler on the coasts due to onshore breezes and lingering fog.
It’s more of the same tomorrow too – with the east of the country experiencing the best of the sunshine. Met Éireann’s warning however that there’s also the risk of “the odd heavy shower breaking out” over parts of Ulster or Leinster.
Temperatures will fall back a little over the weekend, but they’ll still be above normal. By Monday we’ll be back in more typical Irish “good summer” territory, with the mercury registering figures in the high teens to low twenties. Rainfall amounts will remain small too.
People have certainly been making the most of the very un-Irish summer weather. Here’s a selection of some images from the last 24 hours…
Sunny scenes from Dublin’s Stephen’s Green (Image: Greg Dorney)
A stunning landscape photo of the city centre park, also from Greg Dorney
2-year-old Isaac Moran enjoying the sunshine at Brittas Bay in Wicklow (Image: From his mum, Emma Moran)
Teenagers cool off at Spencer Dock in Dublin, with the Jeanie Johnston tallship in the background (Irish Water Safety doesn’t recommend this, by the way) (Image: Marc O Sullivan – check out his website here)
Kids jumping into the Grand Canal Dock at Bolands Mills (Image: Marc O’Sullivan, again)
President Higgins and Sabina Higgins with members of the Corish Wallace School of Performing Arts at an event in Aras an Uachtarain to commemorate the 1913 Lockout.(Photo: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Conor Murphy of Timoleague in Cork sent in this sunny pic of his daughter Beibhinn reading her book by the waterside.
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