It’s been rather warm in Ireland of late

A map of Europe with Ireland down by the mouth of the Mediterranean, and a speech bubble coming from it saying, "Well lads, what's the craic?"

Most of the people on this green isle of ours aren’t “built for this sort of weather” as I’ve heard people say a few times over the last few days. There’s a heatwave here that I’m sure most people in southern Europe would scoff at. Temperatures are in the mid-twenties, and beaches are filled to overflowing, so the Guards requested people go to other locations.

There’s rain due next week. Back to a normal summer for us, and Ireland will slowly get back up to the North Atlantic.

PS. Don’t look too closely at the place names. The original image comes from a Facebook post where I’m sure they stole it from elsewhere, but they used a postage-size image I blew up in Topaz Photo AI for this post.

Hot hot hot!

When a toddler is about to touch something hot, you warn them it’s “HOT HOT HOT!” What do you do when the world is overheating?

My phone says it’s 30C right now where I live, and in the Phoenix Park in Dublin it’s 33C, almost breaking the Irish temperature record set in 1835.

And Ireland is probably the coldest place in Europe today. How did we let this happen?

It’s a mystery