Life’s a beach for Shay as temperatures look set to soar
After a lengthy winter which has matched the national mood, it couldn’t come at a more appropriate time.
As the clocks go back an hour to herald the official start of summer time this Sunday, pale skinned people across the country are due to get a long-awaited burst of sunshine to help melt their blues away.
After patches of bitterly cold weather in the first three months of the year, Met Éireann has confirmed that temperatures are finally set to soar into the high teens from today, with the sought-after conditions set to continue to the end of next week at least.
This morning, weather watchers have been told they will wake to temperatures of between 14C and 17C, with the mercury expected to rise even higher on Sunday.
Conditions are due to remain very mild to warm with light breezes until Thursday or Friday at the earliest, with temperatures peaking at 19C.
The high temperature mark is on a par with March conditions normally seen in Lanzarote, southern France, and the Sahara, with the only drawback being that light patches of frost will occur under the night-time clear skies. And as a result, crowds of people are expected to welcome the official start of summer time — which begins at 1am Greenwich mean time on Sunday — in far from typical Irish conditions.
The sizzling sunshine is not confined just to Ireland, with our nearest neighbours also set to head for the beaches.
Experts across the Irish Sea have predicted that the British will see temperatures of 20C, 7C above average, over the coming days as the strongest March heatwave since 2005 takes hold.
Despite the science, however, weather watchers are likely to still be looking out for the cloud more than the silver lining.
Last autumn, Met Éireann told the nation to expect to be drenched in sunshine. Instead, we got rain, with the only red faces being those of weather forecasters as they apologised.
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