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LAST UPDATE | 14 Aug 2022
A NATIONWIDE THUNDERSTORM warning has been upgraded to Orange, with Met Éireann forecasting heavy downpours of rain and hail in some parts of the country.
The warning comes into effect at 3pm today and is valid until 9am tomorrow.
The thunderstorm warning was previously Status Yellow. The Status Yellow high temperature warning remains valid for Munster, Leinster, Cavan, Monaghan, Galway and Roscommon until 6am tomorrow.
Met Éireann says it’s to continue very warm or hot with temperatures generally of 27 to 30 degrees but cooler in coastal areas.
Yesterday, temperatures topped 30 degrees for the third straight day.
The forecaster says that a Status Yellow thunderstorm warning will come into effect from noon today affecting all counties, including Northern Ireland.
“As isolated showers and thunderstorms will develop throughout the day increasing in coverage from late afternoon, the most intense slow-moving deluges as will cause some spot flooding, intense lightning and possibly some hail at times,” Met Éireann has said.
Looking forward to tomorrow, scattered showers and thunderstorms will continue to affect southern half the country, becoming intense through the afternoon with an enhanced risk of flooding.
Tomorrow’s temperatures will return “closer to average” tomorrow, ranging from a cool 14 to 16 degrees in the northwest to 17 to 23 degrees elsewhere.
The UN’s IPCC has said that global warming has caused an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events.
The world has already warmed by about 1.1 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times largely due to human activity, and the IPCC has warned that global heating is virtually certain to pass 1.5 degrees, probably within a decade.
With reporting from Emer Moreau
Yet another successful dip back into the markets. There’s still massive uncertainty out there, but it looks increasingly likely that Ireland will exit the bailout at the end of the year. While our budget is still in a bad way, it’ll be nice to have a sense of independence again and it should give an overall confidence boost to consumers and business that will be felt in the wider economy.
Yeah cause the ECB buying most of the bonds and T-bills is a step in the right direction. Getting played. In honour of twitters 7 year birthday, u deserve a hashtag #Deluded
Tell me why I should have confidence, I don’t understand it, I’m serious, what does this mean for me?
David please give it over
there is a bond bubble at the moment and selling bonds is as easy as it was getting a mortgage in 2005. the ecb is flooding the market with money which is skewing bond prices.
More reason than you had buying a 1 bed apartment for 500k during the boom!
I have a clatter of bills they are welcome to auction off as well.
How much commission could someone earn from a sale like that? Somebody must get something
No
Not trying to start an ‘inflated wages’ war, just curious thats all
Bought by the ECB to make it appear austerity scam is working in Ireland .ponzi scam that appears to be unwound with Cyprus giving so far the two fingers to the ECB.
Thanks for taking that down journal ; my education continues !
as in; I am an idiot sometimes !
Note to self ; it’s very easy to take a wrong turn in cyberspace
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