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There are probably quite a lot of you nursing sunburn and counting the extra freckles on exposed areas of skin right now because the hottest day of the year certainly lived up to its billing.
Some car dashboards and Snapchat screenshots recorded temperatures well in excess of 30 degrees throughout the country, basically reaffirming what we already knew to be true; that it was bloody hot.
For the second day in a row, the highest official temperature was recorded at a Met Éireann weather station in Mount Dillon in Roscommon, where the recorded temperature was a whopping 30.4 degrees, more than three degrees warmer than yesterday.
The highest temperature recorded at our stations today: 30.4 degrees at Mount Dillon in Co. Roscommon
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) July 19, 2016
Wednesday, alas, is expected to be slightly cooler, with showers and thundery outbreaks of rain expected in places, rain that will spread across the country on Thursday after a bright start to the day.
Friday is expected to be dry for the most part until outbreaks of rain in the west on Friday night spread to the rest of the country on Saturday, with a mixture of sunny and rainy spells taking hold for most of the weekend.
It was nice while it lasted.
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