{"id":483934,"date":"2026-06-05T04:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/483934\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T04:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:57:23","slug":"ireland-experiences-third-warmest-spring-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/483934\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland experiences third-warmest spring on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Met \u00c9ireann&#8217;s climate statement for Spring 2026 shows that the last three months were the third-warmest on record in Ireland since 1900.<\/p>\n<p>Climatologist Paul Moore said the mean temperature was 10.14 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on RT\u00c9&#8217;s Drivetime, he said that seven of the top ten warmest springs in Ireland since 1900 have been since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s definitely a climate change increase there, we&#8217;ve seen a clear trend of the springs getting warmer, and indeed every month and every season is trending upwards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that rainfall was &#8220;about average, about 103% for the whole of Spring,&#8221; but that was &#8220;very divided&#8221; between east and west, drier in the east and &#8220;much wetter&#8221; in the west.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Spring 2026: Third warmest Spring on record. Wet in the West, drier in the South and East<br \/>\ud83d\udc49Rainfall saw a big West\/East contrast<br \/>\ud83d\udc49Heat dome towards the end of spring brought record high temps<br \/>\ud83d\udc49Storm Dave brought storm force winds<br \/>More details here &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W40Mk2DceH\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/W40Mk2DceH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OWDvyg5lla\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/OWDvyg5lla<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Climate Services @ Met \u00c9ireann (@METclimate) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/METclimate\/status\/2062490270407557323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Moore said that May 2026 was Ireland&#8217;s seventh-warmest May on record, April was the 12th-warmest April on record, and March was the 16th-warmest March on record.<\/p>\n<p>The final third of May &#8220;really pushed the temperatures up,&#8221; he added, after a &#8220;relatively cool&#8221; first two-thirds of the month.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Provisional rainfall graph for 2016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/002478f2-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThis graph from Met \u00c9ireann shows recorded rainfall so far in 2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The national maximum May [temperature] record was beaten by over 2.5 degrees in a couple of the [weather] stations, so that&#8217;s a phenomenal jump in any one national maximum temperature record for any month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just shows you that, in extreme situations, where we get high pressure and heat coming up from the south, we can now reach levels that we wouldn&#8217;t have been able to reach before,&#8221; Mr Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Met \u00c9ireann&#8217;s climate statement for Spring 2026 shows that the last three months were the third-warmest on record&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-483934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483934","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=483934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}