On This Day (1 October) in Irish Weather History
A timeline of notable weather events and extremes that have taken place in Ireland on October 1st throughout history.
1908: Temperature reaches 22.7 °C at Phoenix Park, Dublin.
1971: Belfast records a high of 20.2 °C, just 0.4 °C below the city’s October record set two years earlier.
1987: Ireland largely avoids the worst of a storm that causes significant disruption in parts of Britain.
2000: Eight men, including one Irishman, die when the French fishing trawler The Star of the West sinks off the coast of Clare amid gale-force winds and treacherous seas.
2020: A cool airmass spreads over Ireland, with Knock in Mayo recording a daily high of only 9.8 °C.
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