Finally after 6pm this evening, the temperature dropped over 3° in the hour as the cold front edged south. We lost the record breaking SW wind and winds shifted to the NW. That front though is expected to return north again with more warm air behind it for tomorrow Sunday.

Still misty/drizzly. This week has seen some warm sun interspersed with drizzly bits. The daily rainfall (in mm) has barely wet the garden. Sun: 1.9 Mon: 0.2 Tues: trace Wed: 1.2 Thu: 0.5 Fri: 0.1 Sat: 1.0

Today Monday, marks the end of the warm/sultry conditions. Cooler this week but a lot of dry weather around mid-week. Cool with some showers for the weekend. Quite cool and breezy on Sunday for the hurling match in Croke Park, with one or two passing light showers.

Met Éireann confirming that it wasn't just Kilkenny that experienced that record warm night 2 days ago. 6 other stations in Leinster had their warmest June night and warmest on record at Phoenix Park and Oak Park.

June 2025 weather summary for Kilkenny. It was warm and drier than normal. On June 28th we recorded our warmest night on record.

Quite an impressive forecast this week !

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Met Éireann have issued high temperature warnings (over 27°C) for Kilkenny for tomorrow Friday and Saturday. Yesterday it reached a max of 25° in Kilkenny.

The maximum yesterday in Kilkenny was 27.0° which ties with June 20th as our warmest day of the year so far. Likely to be hotter again over Friday and Saturday and it won't be until Monday when we will notice a drop in temperature.

It got to 30° C in Kilkenny yesterday. The heat was spread across all of Britain and Ireland. But probably most unusual temperature was the 32.2° recorded in the Highlands of Scotland at Aviemore. Aviemore is more renowned as Scotland's most visited ski resort during the winter.

🚨 RECORD RAINFALL: Parts of County Down just had their wettest July day on record 😳🌧️ In under 24 hours (until 06:00 Monday) Murlough: 55.2mm Killowen: 58mm That's nearly an ENTIRE MONTH’S rain in a single day at Killowen. And it’s still raining... ☔⚠️

24.8mm in the rain gauge this morning making it our wettest day of the year so far. The bulk of it falling between midnight and 4am

Not a bad forecast this week with little rain (until Saturday evening) and reasonable temperatures.

This morning's ECMWF model takes a deep storm into Scotland next Monday evening. It would be a close call for Ireland with gusts of over 170 km/hr (105 mph) for the Western Isles. This severe forecast is not supported by all models and hopefully it won't come to fruition.

There is still a lot of uncertainty about next Monday's potential storm. The ECMWF model is still taking it into Scotland and not too bad for us except the far north of Ireland. We definitely dont want the outcome forecast by the UKMO model today. That would bring devastation.

I was always under the impression that sea swimming off the west Norwegian coast would be a bit of challenge. But not after the hot summer they've had. Sea temperatures are a pleasant 18° C. Anomalies are running 3° to 4° above normal there & much of this is heading to the Arctic

Quite the shower now moving down through Kilkenny now.

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Looking through the models this morning and there's a growing consensus that the track for Monday's storm will bring it into Scotland and traverse across the North Sea. ECMWF going for deepest outcome with still strong gusts across the middle of Scotland. Not so bad for us.

Storm Floris is going to arrive on Monday, bringing potentially disruptive winds to northern parts of the UK. It’ll also bring a spell of heavy rain.