It happened in June.
It’s happening again now.
The Met Office doesn’t care about your comfort levels, it cares about the numbers. You need temperatures above 25°C. Three days in a row. At the exact same spot. No cheating, no moving the thermometer into the shade when it gets uncomfortable.
Castlederg in County Tyrone made the grade.
Sunday hit 26.4°C.
Monday cooled to 25.1°C, but stayed high.
Tuesday afternoon spiked to 25.7°C by lunch.
Three consecutive days. Officially?
Heatwave conditions.
It’s the same station that logged Northern Ireland’s record high back in July 2022 — 31.3°C, scorching stuff. The air there remembers being hot. It likes to stay that way.
What comes next isn’t cold.
Hot inland. Very hot, even if it dips a few degrees by the weekend. “Cooling” here just means “slightly less oppressive than before.” Most of us won’t feel a real breeze. Except the coasts. If you’re near the sea, grab that breeze. It’ll drop a few degrees, make the shirts feel less sticky against the skin.
Is anyone else tired of watching the calendar ignore winter?
The Republic isn’t watching from afar either.
Heat warnings.
Heat advisories.
Most of the country has warnings until Friday morning. Then every single county sits on an advisory through Saturday. It’s everywhere. Inland, coastal, north, south — the sun is winning.
The data says stay safe.
The air says ignore the data.
