Glorious sunshine set to continue but beware of volcanic eruptions

The weather may be glorious now, but watch out for those volcanoes.

American researchers have discovered that, once in a while, Irish weather takes a turn for the worse as a result of volcanic eruptions taking place as far away as South America.

An international group of scientific researchers have examined Ireland’s medieval chroniclers who compiled the Irish Annals and have found their accounts of climatic events are amazingly accurate. By assessing over 40,000 written entries in the Annals and comparing them with measurements taken from ice cores, the researchers linked the climatic aftermath of volcanic eruptions to extreme cold weather events in Ireland over a 1,200-year period from AD431 to 1649.