Don’t pack away the bikini yet — heatwave is due back

Don’t pack away the shorts and T-shirts — there’s life in the old Irish summer yet.

But you’ll have to dodge a few more showers before breaking out the barbecues the week after next.

Ken Ring, the long-range weather forecasting guru who earlier this year predicted last month’s record-breaking heatwave with uncanny accuracy, has predicted a return to balmy conditions by mid-August.