Northern Ireland has just experienced it's hottest June since 1846
The Irish heatwave continues to keep records tumbling, after The North had it's hottest June since 1846! Including a day which saw the hottest temperatures ever recorded by the Armagh Observatory since it started taking daily measurements in 1795.
The warmest two days of the month in Co. Armagh were June 27 and 28, when temperatures reached a scorching 30.4C and 30.2C respectively.
Armagh Observatory said 30.4C is the hottest day since their records began 223 years ago.
Overall, June 2018 was recorded as much warmer than average, drier than average and with higher than average number of hours of strong sunshine.
“With a mean monthly temperature of 16.16C (61.1 Fahrenheit), this was the warmest June at Armagh for 172 years – that is, since June 1846 – and the third-warmest June recorded at Armagh since daily measurements of temperature at the Observatory began around 1795,” the observatory said.
Yesterday's temperatures peaked at 30.4 degrees Celsius. This is the highest ever recorded at this station since TMAX (maximum thermometer readings) began in August 1843.#heatwave #planetarium50 @newslineweather @barrabest @angie_weather @paulorossradio @frank_broadcast pic.twitter.com/x9XgiMgLvV
— Armagh Planetarium (@ArmaghPlanet) June 28, 2018
“This was the driest June at Armagh for three years, that is, since June 2015, which recorded 29.45mm of rainfall.
“The mean temperature was nearly 16.2C, some 2.8C warmer than the long-term (1796-2010) average June temperature at Armagh and 2.3C warmer than the most recent (1981-2010) 30-year average. This was the third-warmest June on record at Armagh, that is, since 1795.”
