September temperature records broken at 14 weather stations last month

As a result of a hot tropical-continental air mass moving over the country from the south-southeast towards the beginning of last month, all but one weather station reported their highest temperature of the year. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

Fourteen of the country's weather stations saw their all-time September temperatures broken last month, with four stations reporting heatwave conditions.

According to Met Éireann's Climate Statement for September 2023, mean air temperatures at each of the forecaster's 25 weather stations were above their long-term average (LTA) for the month — calculated by averaging each location’s monthly total from 1981 to 2010.