Weather sage warns of wet Irish ‘summer’

THOSE planning a summer break in Ireland would be best to set aside some days in June as July and August are forecast to be far from hot.

New Zealander Ken Ring, who correctly predicted not only last summer’s gloomy conditions using his study of the moon and tides but also the flooding of November, has warned us not to get too carried away with the reasonably clement conditions he is predicting for June.

That month will see a third less rainfall than average and even extended periods of sunshine. In particular, Mr Ring believes the first week will be mostly sunny and, overall for June, he even ventured that Munster would be 20% drier than average.