Weather guru predicts ongoing winter

Arctic conditions are expected to continue into the weekend, while well-known weather guru Ken Ring is predicting Ireland will be shivering in freezing temperatures right up until the summer.

However, the New Zealand forecaster, who predicted the Christchurch earthquake and Ireland’s arctic winter in 2010, is standing by the calculation he made earlier in the year that temperatures will shoot up to a balmy 30C in a July heatwave.

Mr Ring, who uses moon, sun, and tidal activity to make his forecast months in advance, correctly predicted that March would be the “coldest month” of the year in his Ireland Weather Almanac for 2013.