On This Day (27 May) in Irish Weather History

A chronological record of weather events and extremes that occurred in Ireland on 27 May throughout history.

1907: An intense thunderstorm with freak winds, heavy rain, and lightning forces the abandonment of a national meeting on the Home Rule Bill at Elphin, County Roscommon.

1918: The former Director of the Met Office and inventor of the tephigram, Sir Napier Shaw, is appointed scientific advisor to the British Government to provide meteorological data up to the end of World War I.

1936: Aer Lingus undertakes its first flight as Ireland’s national carrier with a scheduled service from Baldonnel to Bristol.

1960: The last barge on the Grand Canal makes its final journey to Limerick with a cargo of Guinness.

1979: Valentia in Kerry records 24°C.

1990: The temperature reaches the low 20s across Ireland.

2017: The highest daily rainfall rate for the month (38.0 mm) is recorded at Casement Aerodrome in Dublin.

2018: Lightning is reported across the south and southeast of Ireland, while Belmullet records 23°C.