{"id":510899,"date":"2026-06-21T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/510899\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:50:08","slug":"sultry-nights-on-the-way-as-ireland-set-to-bask-in-mediterranean-style-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/510899\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sultry nights’ on the way as Ireland set to bask in Mediterranean-style heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish barbecue enthusiasts are going Mediterranean this year \u2013 and they\u2019re about to get some balmy weather to match.<\/p>\n

Met \u00c9ireann<\/a> said it expects some \u2018very warm or even hot days\u2019 this week, as mainland Europe swelters under another alarming heatwave.<\/p>\n

The national meteorological service is predicting temperatures in the mid to high 20s for the coming days, with \u2018sultry\u2019 nights anticipated.<\/p>\n

\"\"Polly watches as her owner Colm Baumann dives in at Dublin\u2019s Forty Foot. Pic: Fran Veale<\/p>\n

As the country went al fresco with restaurants and caf\u00e9s setting out their pavement dining tables and chairs, Damien Kelly, director of OutdoorLiving.ie<\/a>, said yesterday was an \u2018extremely busy\u2019 day at their showrooms around the country as garden owners look to make the most of the incoming fine weather.<\/p>\n

He told Extra.ie<\/a> a \u2018massive\u2019 seller so far has been their \u2018Mediterranean-style\u2019 barbecues \u2013 concrete structures with chimneys which stay in place all year round once they\u2019re installed.<\/p>\n

\u2018We find that they\u2019re very popular because a lot of people like the Mediterranean lifestyle,\u2019 Mr Kelly said, adding that the \u2018very robust\u2019 outdoor grills also carry a 20-year warranty.<\/p>\n

Several hundred kilos in weight, they have to be delivered to customers and assembled on site.<\/p>\n

The second big trend is another garden feature borrowed from hotter climes \u2013 pergolas, though it is the modern \u2018bioclimatic\u2019 kind that sell best here with our famously \u2018whimsical\u2019 weather.<\/p>\n

\u2018It can protect you from the sunshine, or you can open up the louvres and let the sun in,\u2019 Mr Kelly explained. <\/p>\n

\u2018And then you can let the wind in to cool you down, or you can block out the shade or the rain as well.<\/p>\n

\u2018Irish summers are very changeable, so that\u2019s an ideal structure for coping with your showers and your rain.\u2019<\/p>\n

Met \u00c9ireann<\/a> forecasts long spells of sunshine today, turning hazy later, with highest temperatures of 18C to 24C.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow will be dry, warm and sunny for the most part, with increasingly toasty temperatures of 20C to 26C, though some thundery showers may feed into southeast areas.<\/p>\n

Tuesday will be similarly pleasant, though a little cloudier and possibly cooler in west and northwest counties, with scattered light showers expected.<\/p>\n

Wednesday will remain dry and warm, with some isolated light showers and temperatures ranging from the low to mid 20s.<\/p>\n

Heading towards the weekend, conditions appear set to remain dry and settled, and Met \u00c9ireann says there is \u2018the potential for very warm, if not hot, weather as a continental airmass moves in across Ireland\u2019.<\/p>\n

Temperatures could climb into the high 20s by day, Met \u00c9ireann forecasts, \u2018with some sultry nights\u2019 also possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish barbecue enthusiasts are going Mediterranean this year \u2013 and they\u2019re about to get some balmy weather to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-510899","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\/510899","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=510899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}