{"id":466463,"date":"2026-05-25T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/466463\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:16:08","slug":"ireland-records-hottest-may-day-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/466463\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland records hottest May day ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"51\">Today could be the hottest May day ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"53\" data-end=\"153\">Provisional data from Met \u00c9ireann shows two stations recorded highs of 28.8 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"155\" data-end=\"244\">If confirmed, that would beat the current May temperature record of 28. 4 degrees.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"246\" data-end=\"362\">Alan O&#8217;Reilly from Carlow Weather outlines what parts of the country saw the hottest temperatures today:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"364\" data-end=\"523\">&#8220;We have provisionally set a new May record high temperature today with 2 climatic stations of Met \u00c9ireann and report in 28.8 degrees so far as a high today.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"525\" data-end=\"601\">&#8220;Beating the previous 28.4 degrees, so that was in Clommel and in Killarney.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"603\" data-end=\"687\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Meanwhile, a record high temperature was also recorded at Oak Park in County Carlow.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"603\" data-end=\"687\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u00a0Reporting by Kamron Clarke<\/p>\n<p>Keep up to date with all the latest on our website,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beat102103.com\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beat102103.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today could be the hottest May day ever recorded. Provisional data from Met \u00c9ireann shows two stations recorded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[201681,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-466463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-hottest-may","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}