Ireland has just experienced the wettest July ever recorded, according to provisional data from Met Éireann, breaking a record set in 2009. The past month exceeded long-term average rainfall for July, with the country receiving 215% of expected rainfall
The crowd trying to keep dry during day one of the Galway Races summer festival on Monday. The country received an average of 178.9mm of rain during the month of July. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA WireIreland has just experienced the wettest July ever recorded, according to provisional data from Met Éireann, breaking a record set in 2009.
The past month massively exceeded the long-term average rainfall for July, with the country receiving 215 per cent of expected rainfall. The country received an average of 178.9mm of rain during the month of July. The previous record for the wettest July on record was in 2009, with the country receiving an average of 202 per cent of the expected rainfall based on data beginning in 1981.
Speaking to The Irish Times ahead of the release of the official data, Met Éireann climatologist Paul Moore said 25 of Met Éireann’s primary weather stations had recorded more than 200 per cent of expected rainfall in July, with at least 11 stations recording record high rainfall for July. This poor weather is due to “a period of low-pressure systems drifting across the country”, Mr Moore said, and “these systems brought convective rain through the month”.
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