Northern Ireland along with the rest of the UK has been experiencing warmer temperatures than usual this October.
The Met Office has explained that warmer temperatures over recent days is due to 'warm air being pushed north across Europe as the jet stream moves'.
The hottest temperature recorded in NI this month so far was 18.9C at Murlough, Co Down. The mean temperature across the region so far this month is 10.7C and an average daily maximum of 13.8C.
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The averages this month are not far behind the averages recorded for the warmest October on record in 1969 when the mean temperature was 11.9C and the average daily maximum temperature was recorded as 15.1C.
A Met Office spokesperson said: "The top day time temperature recorded so far this October in Northern Ireland is 18.9C recorded in Murlough (County Down) on 6/10/22, not close to the warmest October day on record for Northern Ireland which was 24.1C in Strabane (County Tyrone) on 10/10/1969.
"Looking at the temperatures for the month as a whole for October so far (1 – 25th Oct) the Mean temperature (24 hour average) is 10.7C and the Daily Maximum temperature is 13.8C.
"Looking at the records for the warmest October on record (records back to 1884) the warmest month for mean temperatures was recorded in 1969 when mean temp was and 11.9C the warmest month for daily maximum temperatures was also recorded in 1969 at 15.1C."
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