Soggy month signs off with wettest July for decades

WET and windy as a tinker’s cat. As if we hadn’t noticed, Met Éireann has confirmed that July was mostly a miserable month with a cool and wet start and a muggy and wet end to proceedings.

Cork recorded its wettest month in more than 30 years while even in Wexford, normally drier than the rest, rainfall was twice the level of recent years.

Much of the first half of July was wet and relatively cool, but warmer and drier conditions developed until the last few days of the month, when rain or showers again became widespread.