Drought

Met Éireann issue new weather warning for the next week

Good news? Bad news? It’s up to you really. Met Éireann has issued a fresh Yellow Level weather warning for the entire island, announcing that drought-like conditions are set to persist for the next six days. The warning comes into effect today, and will be valid until Wednesday July 18 at 15:00. The warning follows a […]

Good news? Bad news? It’s up to you really. Met Éireann has issued a fresh Yellow Level weather warning for the entire island, announcing that drought-like conditions are set to persist for the next six days. The warning comes into effect today, and will be valid until Wednesday July 18 at 15:00. The warning follows a […]

8 years ago

Forecaster predicts Ireland to get no rainfall for ‘at least another week to ten days’

#RainFail Is this just how we live now? Is Ireland a tropical island now, is that it? Well, no, not exactly… especially since it would appear that the entire Northern Hemisphere is suffering from the same fate as we are. And it looks very much set to continue. Met Éireann extended their weather warning into […]

#RainFail Is this just how we live now? Is Ireland a tropical island now, is that it? Well, no, not exactly… especially since it would appear that the entire Northern Hemisphere is suffering from the same fate as we are. And it looks very much set to continue. Met Éireann extended their weather warning into […]

8 years ago

Irish Water concerned that restrictions may need to be kept in place until September

‘Our primary concern is for longer term supplies in late summer and autumn.’ In the last few days, several parts of the country have been left with limited access to water due to the drought-like conditions brought on by the current heatwave. While the ‘hosepipe ban’ is currently only in place in the Greater Dublin […]

‘Our primary concern is for longer term supplies in late summer and autumn.’ In the last few days, several parts of the country have been left with limited access to water due to the drought-like conditions brought on by the current heatwave. While the ‘hosepipe ban’ is currently only in place in the Greater Dublin […]

8 years ago

Forecaster predicts temperatures may get even higher next week

This weekend will be ever so slightly cooler, but the heatwave is set to return even stronger in a few days. It is starting to happen, isn’t it? Nobody wanted to complain about the heatwave, because we spend eleven-and-a-half months of the year complaining about how bad the weather usually is in Ireland, and if […]

This weekend will be ever so slightly cooler, but the heatwave is set to return even stronger in a few days. It is starting to happen, isn’t it? Nobody wanted to complain about the heatwave, because we spend eleven-and-a-half months of the year complaining about how bad the weather usually is in Ireland, and if […]

8 years ago

Met Éireann issue a pretty freaky weather warning for the week ahead

We all love the sun, but this isn’t exactly what we want to hear. On Saturday morning, Met Éireann warned that “drought or near-drought conditions will persist through the coming week.” We’ve already been a few weeks without rain, and it seems as though that sunny streak will be continuing until at least midnight on […]

We all love the sun, but this isn’t exactly what we want to hear. On Saturday morning, Met Éireann warned that “drought or near-drought conditions will persist through the coming week.” We’ve already been a few weeks without rain, and it seems as though that sunny streak will be continuing until at least midnight on […]

8 years ago