Met Éireann Climate Statement

Met Éireann have released their Climate Statement for June 2026.

According to the forecaster, last month's weather was particularly unusual.

For example, several weather stations saw record breaking temperatures, including Mullingar.

Forecasters also reported tropical night temperatures, a term used to describe a night in which temperatures don’t drop below 20°C.

The report revealed that not only had Mullingar seen its wettest June since 2016, all rainfall totals from the report were above their 1991-2020 Long-Term Average (LTA) for the month.

Mullingar also broke the record for their highest minimum temperature ever recorded, at 19.6°C.

The reasoning behind the almost unprecedented weather was a heat dome from the south.

Met Éireann explained in their report that it brought exceptionally high day and night time temperatures.

Atlantic low pressure brought the wet conditions for the first half of the month and the polar maritime air masses ensured that conditions would b e relatively cool.

As the report so elegantly put it, the second half of June was a “battleground” between high pressure from the south and low pressure to the west.

A high pressure built up across the country once again, sunny dry conditions began to develop.

Thanks to the heat dome that had developed over Western Europe pushed north up the country, the dome was made up of trapped Saharan heat.

Its presence culminated into an exceptionally humid and hot week between Monday 22 and Friday June 26.

Ireland was not the only nation to experience extreme heat.

But, in many ways the country got off lucky as mainland Europe reported over 1300 deaths due to the heat.

Met Éireann report that Ireland and Europe can expect another heatwave in mid-July.