1916 Rising put stop to even weather readings

A century-old document has revealed how the official weather readings for the capital are blank during the 1916 Rising.

The observatory in Trinity College recorded some of the county’s earliest weather records since it was built in the middle of the 19th century but the meticulous daily readings came to an abrupt halt the day the rising started on April 24, 1916 and didn’t resume until almost a month later on May 18.

In the RTÉ series Creedon’s Four Seasons In One Day, Met Éireann librarian Máiréad Traynor has revealed how a note from a student written into the record books in the spring of 1916 explains the gap in the painstaking records was due to the Republican uprising.