{"id":674032,"date":"2026-11-03T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674032\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T20:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:48:07","slug":"ireland-records-sixth-consecutive-warmer-than-average-october-met-eireann-says-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674032\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland records sixth consecutive warmer-than-average October, Met \u00c9ireann says \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">October was milder and wetter than average with low pressure from the Atlantic dominating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/weather-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/weather-ireland\/\">weather<\/a> for most of the month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/met-eireann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/met-eireann\/\">Met \u00c9ireann<\/a> said in its latest climate statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Last month was the sixth consecutive October with an above-average national temperature, with the weather service recording a national mean of 11.41 degrees, 0.62 degrees above the long-term average between 1991 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Rainfall during the month was 120 per cent of the long-term average as two named storms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-style\/people\/2026\/10\/22\/who-is-storm-austen-named-after\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-style\/people\/2026\/10\/22\/who-is-storm-austen-named-after\/\">Austen<\/a> and Boelo, struck during October. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The month was the 28th mildest October on record since 1900.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There was 155.3mm of rain recorded during the month, making it the 24th wettest October on record since 1941.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Of the 10 wettest Octobers, four have occurred since 2001. The highest rainfall was recorded in 2022 followed by 2002, 2023 and 2008. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">High pressure during the third week of October led to mostly dry conditions with sunny spells, but a cooler air mass brought the first air frost of the season on Saturday, October 17th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As the high pressure pulled away towards Scandinavia, slow-moving weather fronts moved in over the country on October 20th, marking the beginning of a \u201cvery wet and windy period during the fourth week\u201d where the North Atlantic jet stream pushed south. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">This steered several \u201cvigorous low-pressure systems\u201d towards northwest Europe along with the first two named storms of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/podcasts\/in-the-news\/how-much-rain-will-supersized-el-nino-bring-to-ireland-this-winter\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How much rain will supersized El Ni\u00f1o bring to Ireland this winter?Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Storm Austen passed to the south and brought wet and windy weather, especially to the south and east on October 22nd and 23rd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Storm Boelo passed to the north and brought wet and windy weather, especially to the north and west on October 24th and October 25th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Another \u201cdeep depression\u201d passed to the north and brought further wet and windy weather across the country on October 26th and October 27th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The month finished calmer and drier as high pressure to the south and east \u201cgradually took control\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October was milder and wetter than average with low pressure from the Atlantic dominating the weather for most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,1191,43,15950],"class_list":["post-674032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-met-eireann","tag-news","tag-weather-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674032","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=674032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}