Barbeques at the ready: The good weather is here to stay (for a week)

As terrible as our climate is in Ireland, there seems to be at least one week in the year where we have something approaching a pleasant climate. This week could be it.

Irish people got out the barbeques and dragged their pasty bodies to the beach today as the sun shone nationwide, with temperatures approaching a sizzling 19 degrees in places.

The good news is that the relatively balmy temperatures are set to last for the week, the bad news for people that have to work, study or procrastinate indoors is that they’ll get to spend precious little time enjoying what in all likelihood will be an all too brief spell of daycent weather.

According to the Met Eireann website, the good weather will last until Friday, when things will return to normal ahead of what is expected to be a dry weekend next weekend, albeit colder than it is in the moment.

“The weather will remain dry and settled for the coming week,” reads the Met Eireann forecast.

“Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be dry days with hazy sunshine. Temperatures in the afternoons will reach highs in the mid to high teens generally, but will be significantly lower at the coasts of the south and east with winds coming in over the sea keeping it cooler there.”

It’s hardly a heatwave, but so starved are we for sunshine in this country that we’ll take whatever we can get. Enjoy it while it lasts.

By the way, if there's anyone asking if we used this story as any old excuse to publish a picture of Georgia Salpa and other hot models clad only in revealing bikinis, you bet we did.