*Photograph: Joe Buckley
SHANNON was the warmest place in the country on Tuesday.
Met Éireann’s synoptic station at Shannon Airport recorded the country’s highest temperature on Tuesday, with the mercury reaching 28.1 degrees at 5pm. The reading was just 0.1 degrees warmer than those reported at Mount Dillon in Co Roscommon and Oak Park in Co Carlow.
This warm weather came exactly three years to the day since Oak Park set the August temperature record for Ireland when the temperatures hit 31.7 degrees on August 12th, 2022.
Mark Dunphy of weatheire.com stated, “It was the warmest day in Shannon since 30.2 °C was recorded at the Met Éireann synoptic station in mid-July.
“Temperatures will dip slightly, but the warmth is expected to build again by the weekend, with highs of 26 or 27 degrees away from the coast. Generally settled conditions are likely to persist into early next week, before a change to less settled weather becomes more likely beyond midweek as high pressure weakens”.
