It’s just another month of unpredictable farming weather

A TORNADO near Rathangan in Co Kildare on May 12 was the most eye-catching feature of Met Eireann’s report on last month’s weather.

Otherwise, it wasn’t much different from any other months’s weather.

For example, you’d only have to go back 22 years to find as wet a May as last month, and only seven years to find equally low temperatures. It’s only 31 years since May was so windy at Shannon Airport and Malin Head (where a gust measured 78 mph on the 7th).