It's fair warm outside, lads!
However, in true Irish fashion, along with the warm spells brings the rain, and it seems we're the only ones that are used to it.
Temperatures in the South East touched 20 degrees in parts today, however there doesn't appear to be much sunshine for us to truly enjoy it.
We did have a good batch of sunshine yesterday, which led to most of us feeling like:
However now, with the added rain, we're like:
It seems to be the case for most parts of the country too, and people have been venting their lack of surprise online:
So Ireland... humid and no sun and random bits of rain.
cool.— Feli (@FeliSpeaks) May 9, 2016
Ugh.. home to pouring rain in Ireland after a few days of baking sun @bhorsetrials
— Rose Ahern (@RoseahernAhern) May 9, 2016
Was that it?! 1 day of sunshine?! @MetEireann #irishsummer #rain #summer #ireland #summer2016
— BirdsOfAHeatherBlog (@birdsofheather) May 9, 2016
The pigs are still #FlatOut though as it seems!
Raining all day here, at least the rain is warmer #heatwave #Ireland pigs don't seem to mind it pic.twitter.com/5JlTwz7btE
— Woodside Farm (@Woodside_Farm) May 9, 2016
And our friends in the North appear to be having better craic than we are, though.
?Warmest day of the year so far for Scotland (Skye 26.1 °C) and Northern Ireland (Castlederg 24 °C) ?
— Met Office (@metoffice) May 9, 2016
Hopefully the clouds can disappear and we can all experience that sunshine!
