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 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. READ MOREThis record level of rainfall comes just after the hottest June on record, breaking an 83-year-old record. March was the wettest on record with an average of 173.3mm of rainfall across the country, surpassing the previous record set in 2019.

Source: The Irish Times August 01, 2023 19:00 UTC