Good news; one guy is predicting a scorching summer for Ireland this year

We don’t know if forecaster Ken Ring is right, wrong or just yanking our chain but on the first work day of January, news of a brilliant Irish summer is fine with us.

On a day like today, you need as much good news as you can get so talk of a scorching Irish summer is just perfect. And, thanks to Kiwi forecaster Ken Ring and the Irish Independent, we have such news.

Ring is apparently a very well known forecaster in Australia – the paper calls him a guru – and he called our miserable winter of 2010-11. Now he has popped up again to tell us that the spring won’t be great, but that the summer will be a belter.

"2013 should be a warmer year, wet for the first three months, then a season that may remind people of the summer of 1995, with long dry spells, especially the first half of July," he boldly predicts in the Indo.

Ring, who uses the sun, moon and the tides to make his predictions, says the first half of July or second half of August is the best time to holiday in Ireland with temperatures to hit 30 degrees in July.

So if you are planning a ‘staycation’ this year, get the holiday request in to the boss today. And if it all turns out to be rubbish and it lashes down on your tent in Tramore, you know who to blame.