{"id":517382,"date":"2026-06-25T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517382\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:01:09","slug":"today-could-be-irelands-hottest-day-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517382\/","title":{"rendered":"Today could be Ireland&#8217;s hottest day ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s set to be the hottest day of the year &#8211; and potentially the hottest day ever in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Met Eireann is predicting temperatures of up to 31 degrees today, but there is a chance the record high of 33.3 degrees, registered at Kilkenny Castle all the way back in 1887, could be broken.<\/p>\n<p>People are urged to stay hydrated, remain out of the hot sun and be careful if swimming in lakes, rivers or at the beach.<\/p>\n<p>Met Eireann is also warning of an increased risk of forest fires.<\/p>\n<p>Alan O&#8217;Reilly, from Carlow Weather, says in addition to the heat, we&#8217;re also in for some very severe thunderstorms:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s set to be the hottest day of the year &#8211; and potentially the hottest day ever in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[220753,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-517382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-hottest","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517382","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=517382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}