Get your swimming trunks ready and put some sun tan on because, in one more day, summer is officially here.
Although Ireland has been basking in some glorious sun over the last few days, technically, it still isn’t summer yet, meaning all of this good weather has been in the spring.
The Meteorological Summer, the three warmest months of the year, officially starts tomorrow June 1, bringing with it a spate of sunny weather - which will hopefully be here to stay until the end of August.
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In a post on Twitter, Alan O’Reilly of Carlow Weather said: “The sun rising over Ireland for the last day of Spring and you couldn’t ask for a better morning.
“Meteorological Summer officially starts tomorrow!”
People won’t see a difference as one season passes into another though, as Tuesday is set to be a scorcher all the way up to the bank holiday weekend, with the west of Ireland set for temperatures of 25C starting on Tuesday while the rest of the country is blasted with temperatures reaching the mid 20s.
While some long-range weather maps show temperatures hitting a sweltering 27C later this week, including Carlow Weather's prediction, Met Eireann’s current forecast predicts 24C highs for the bank holiday.
Explaining Ireland’s current sunny weather conditions, meteorologists Rebecca Cantwell and Evelyn Cusack said: “The current fine spell is set to continue over the June bank holiday weekend and right through the first week in June.
“The Azores anticyclone (high pressure system) is shifted from its normal position around the Azores (and hence its name) up to the north of Ireland producing an Easterly airflow over Ireland.
“This is called a blocking high Pressure system as it literally blocks out the rainbelts in the Atlantic and diverts away the Jet stream and low pressure systems to the north and to the south and in fact over the Azores the Azores High has been replaced this week by a Low Pressure system and rain.”
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