IRELAND’S awful summer has seen the worst top temperatures for almost 50 years and the coldest August for two decades with forecasters writing off the rest of the summer they branded a “stinker”.

IRELAND’S soggy summer is the coldest since records began 25 years ago — and forecasters last night wrote off the rest of summer, warning of regular washouts and no hot weather.

THE weather expert who first predicted Ireland’s Big Freeze says it will get even colder next week as a “once-in-a-lifetime” Siberian weather event brings -10C temperatures, six inches more snow and a white Christmas.