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North’s record temperature could be exceeded this week

written by cassoscoop July 20, 2021
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THE North of Ireland’s new highest recorded temperature could be exceeded this week, the Met Office has said.

The hottest day on record was provisionally reported on Saturday when the temperature in Ballywatticock, in Co Down, hit 31.2C.

“It is possible the [provisional] record may be challenged again on Wednesday or Thursday,” said John Wylie of the Met Office.

“This time it is more likely across central or western parts.”

The previous high was 30.8C set in the summers of 1976 and 1983.

Mr Wylie said that Saturday’s temperature record was “quoted as provisional until the site has been checked by the Met Office”.

“This value will then be compared to other maximum temperatures nearby with the prevailing weather situation,” he said.

“At the moment we’re not seeing anything which might cause us to suspect that value.”

The checks were standard practice, he said, with a small group of people having to assess the information and decide whether the temperature “can be accepted as a new regional maximum”.

Mr Wylie said the “footprint of climate change” was being seen “all over our weather patterns now all over the northern hemisphere”.

“These extreme events where temperatures might have hit 30C in Northern Ireland – originally we’d have been seeing that every seven years,” he said.

“In the last while that has come down to every three or four years.

“These events are becoming more extreme and more frequent.”

There are about 30 weather stations in the North of Ireland, which include a mixture of automatic and manual recording.

Donald Ferguson, the Met Office’s regional network manager for the North of Ireland, is due to inspect the station at Ballywatticock in Co Down on Tuesday.

His inspection was an important part of the record verification process, he said.

“I have to check the equipment is fully functional and compare it against my reading on my inspector-standard instrument,” he added.

Mr Wylie, who is Met Office weather advisor for the North of Ireland, said he believed several factors had combined to produce the high temperature reading in Co Down.

“It was a very hot day – the reason we got it is we have been sitting under high pressure for several days,” said Mr Wylie.

“The temperatures had been rising slowly day on day and with light winds, unbroken sunshine and extremely dry ground conditions.

“Conditions were perfect for unusually high temperatures.

“We are less than a month past the summer solstice and the sun is very high in the sky, which means we are getting maximum benefit from solar heating.

“All of the conditions came together at the right time and right proportions.”

This week was going to be another hot week, he said.

“Temperatures [will be] rising again from Tuesday to Thursday and it will be Friday or the weekend before they return to more normal weather for Northern Ireland.”

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