you must love this time of the year that you're not delivering bad news yeah it's
the best part of my job is weeks like this when i'm giving good news every day
lots of sunshine and warm weather people love it people do love it what is what
classifies the status yellow high temperature warning so that's when
daytime temperatures exceed 27 degrees and nighttime temperatures don't fall
below 15 degrees so warm nights and very warmer hot days but this is only in the
east and south of the country is it so this is monster in leinster from
tomorrow onwards until saturday okay now we are in the heat wave but why why why
do you describe it as a heat wave what constitutes a heat wave so a heat wave
for met aaron is five consecutive days of temperatures over 25 degrees so
that's the ireland definition of a heat wave it does change from country to
country so it's not particularly high for ireland so 25 degrees so we did see
27 degrees yesterday so we are essentially in in the heat wave if we do
see those temperatures for five days because the last time when we hit 30 odd
it wasn't a heat wave because we only had a free day or two it wasn't a long a
longer period yes so it wasn't five days so we couldn't call it a heat wave so we
had to call it a hot spell it's a shorter shorter period what were you
saying earlier on was this the hottest august the hottest win um in august in
27 years 27 years yeah 27 years ago it was 95 the record yeah i can still
remember it yeah 31.4 degrees in carlow in 1995. can we break that can we it's
unlikely that we're going to break it now we might it's going to get up to 29
30 degrees in some places okay so it's not very likely but we won't rule it out
completely so how long is going to last that's what we're all kind of wondering
can we book plans for the weekend next week the barbecues are all going to be
out all weekend people going to the beach planning their planning their
trips now don't give us bad news no i won't so
for the rest of the week and the weekend temperatures are going to be high so
today it's going to be a very warm or hot day temperatures of 24 to 26 degrees
we might see 27 degrees locally in parts of leinster and munster today but not
widespread enough for the warning so it's tomorrow that the warning starts so
widespread 27 28 degrees tomorrow across munster and leinster hotter on friday
and saturday and we're still seeing the temperatures on sunday so it's still
going to be widely in the mid 20s on sunday and the high twenties in some
places on saturday sunday what's going to happen sunday looks like the end of
the heat wave so it'll get cooler then from one day so we're back to normal and
we're going to see showers and stuff showery then yeah usually when the
temperatures come back down we're going to see rain um so it'll be showery
probably from late late and sunday a little bit of uncertainty in the exact
timing but likely to see showers later on sunday so it's nice to be five days
too yeah we still have it we still have it for the next five days and so but you
were saying like those temperatures in august what is the hottest month
generally in ireland uh the hottest month generally is july so june july
august is the meteorological summer why why are we seeing these you know the
hottest in 27 years we've seen july was very warm as well
are you concerned with climate change or is that not something that you really
look too much into now of course we are concerned and it's not really a thing of
climate change now it has changed yeah so
are you have you noticed like have you noticed like it's knocking
you know the records and charts off anything we've seen before yeah so you
know last month we saw record-breaking temperatures um across ireland we saw
right across europe temperatures have been broken uh this summer so
you know we're all seeing it it is warmer and we are going to start
seeing more hot spells more heat waves year by year more temperature warnings
as well so it's going to become something that meteorologists have to
worry more about we'll be issuing more time you worry
about the winter then what could we see kind of adverse effects on the flip side
yeah so the winters are going to be generally milder but also wetter and
storms are going to be more intense so generally winters we're going to see
stormier weather but milder you are saying they will be mildly wilder yeah
but that's not great when it's raining no no it's true but now so um
literally then over the next five days or so so people should be aware of the
how severe the sun is some factors and then if you're going to the beach and
you're going to lakes and stuff like that water safety is very important as
well i mean the sun is very strong at this time of year
widespread sunshine i mean the last hot spell it was cloudy at times i know some
people were a bit disappointed but loads of sunshine this time so if you are out
in the middle of the day particularly wear your spf you know keep your skin
skin protected by all means enjoy the sunshine you know we don't want to rain
on the parade enjoy the sunshine but stay safe and we don't see any more
tragedies as well around water because people flock to the beaches rivers lakes
which they showed you know great weather for it but just to be
careful
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