Temperatures could reach up to 30C in parts of Ireland, as a new Status Yellow high temperature warning will come into effect for most of the country later.<\/p>\n
The warning for Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Offaly, Westmeath, Cavan, Donegal, Munster and all of Connacht will come into effect at 12pm and will last until 6am on Friday.<\/p>\n
Met \u00c9ireann said 30C is likely in counties under the high temperature warning.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, the mercury hit 29.3C at Shannon Airport. It was cooler in Dublin, with temperatures reaching 21.3C at Dublin Airport.<\/p>\n
The forecaster said while today will be mostly dry, sunny and very warm, there could be a few isolated light showers in the southwest, most likely in the late morning.<\/p>\n
It also added there is a “chance of an odd shower during the afternoon and evening too” and that the highest temperatures will be between 23 and 30C.<\/p>\n
Met \u00c9ireann said tonight will be dry and mild with long clear spells and lowest temperatures will be between 13C and 17C.<\/p>\n
Hosepipe ban to come into effect from midnight<\/p>\n
A six-week hosepipe ban for six areas around the country will come into effect at 12am.<\/p>\n
The water conservation order is for Dublin, south Tipperary, parts of Kildare, Meath, Wexford and Wicklow, and it will remain in place until 26 August.<\/p>\n
Uisce \u00c9ireann urged people to reduce their non-essential water use to protect supplies for homes, hospitals, vulnerable customers and essential services.<\/p>\n
Under the order, activities such as watering gardens with a hose, washing vehicles and filling paddling pools are banned in order to conserve water.<\/p>\n
Uisce \u00c9ireann said that the ban could end earlier if conditions improve, or be extended if necessary depending on weather conditions.<\/p>\n
It also said further bans are being actively considered for other areas of the country.<\/p>\n
Night-time restrictions are also in place on 39 water supplies.<\/p>\n
These mainly affect parts of Donegal, Cavan, Longford, Meath, Galway, Laois, Tipperary, Limerick, Kerry, Cork, Waterford, Kilkenny and Wexford.<\/p>\n
Uisce \u00c9ireann said the recent warm weather has led to a significant increase in water use across the affected areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Temperatures could reach up to 30C in parts of Ireland, as a new Status Yellow high temperature warning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-550591","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\/550591","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=550591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}