Nation gets (welcome) weather warning

It’s the sizzle without the drizzle, the kind of heatwave we can usually only dream of, in fact it’s so damn hot, Met Éireann has devised a new weather alert.

Those who subscribe to the Twitter machine will have seen a “High Temperature” warning tweeted by Met Éireann yesterday, surely a first for this country.

We’re currently in the yellow zone, meaning we can expect temperatures in excess of 27C this week. In fact, Kerry Airport hit 30C yesterday, just three degrees shy of our all-time high (33.3C) recorded at Kilkenny Castle on Jun 26, 1887.