Weather: Donegal’s Malin Head saw 29 ‘rain days’ last month
People living in the north and northwest saw much wetter and colder weather than people in other parts of Ireland last month,A rain day is a day on which 0.2mm or more of rainfall is measured. Forecaster Paul Moore said the location where a person lives has a huge bearing on what type of weather is experienced “even in a small country like Ireland”.
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