Ireland Basks in Sunshine as Warm Spell Persists

Saturday brought widespread sunshine across Ireland as the warm and settled spell of weather continued.

An Omega blocking high pressure system has kept the Atlantic at bay since late April, with temperature reaching the low to mid 20s.

Live webcam feeds from Dublin, Cork and Kerry showed peak summer conditions on Saturday.

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Ireland’s weather will remain largely dry up to next Friday, when a return to more seasonal conditions with occasional rain mixed with drier intervals.

Isolated showers, some of which will be thundery, will affect southern and eastern counties during Tuesday, but widespread sunshine is expected for the next six days.

The shift to less settled conditions will be gradual, and overall anticipated rainfall totals as we head into the end of May are unlikely to dramatically reverse low reservoir levels and high soil moisture deficits that are inhibiting growth.

Temperatures will reach the low to mid-twenties up to and including Thursday but will gradually decrease from Friday through the weekend to the mid to high teens. Nights will be frost-free.

Winds will be generally light easterly up to Wednesday before shifting to light and variable. Winds will become moderate to fresh westerly by next weekend.