{"id":270549,"date":"2026-01-06T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270549\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:12:08","slug":"2025-second-warmest-year-in-ireland-says-met-eireann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270549\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 second warmest year in Ireland, says Met \u00c9ireann"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year was the second warmest year on record in Ireland since 1900, according to Met \u00c9ireann.<\/p>\n

In its Annual Climate Statement for 2025, the forecaster said that the average annual air temperature for Ireland last year was 11.14C, while it was 11.21C in 2023.<\/p>\n

The long term average (LTA) in air temperature between 1961 and 1990 was 9.55C, while the LTA between 1991 and 2020 was 10.17C.<\/p>\n

The forecaster said that the last four years, from 2022 to 2025, were the warmest on record, as well as seven of the top ten warmest years since 2005.<\/p>\n

Met \u00c9ireann said that there was a cool start to the weather last year before Storm \u00c9owyn brought the highest winds ever recorded.<\/p>\n

The highest gust was 99.5 knots (184 km\/h) while the highest ten-minute average wind speed was 76.5 knots (142km\/h). These speeds were recorded at Mace Head in Galway on 24 January.<\/p>\n

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\nThe highest winds ever recorded in Ireland were recorded during Storm \u00c9owyn last January<\/p>\n

Last winter finished warm overall which was followed by the warmest and sunniest spring on record, the forecaster said.<\/p>\n

Met \u00c9ireann said that 23 out of 25 stations reported their warmest spring on record.<\/p>\n

April of last year was the third warmest April on record overall, with 17 stations reporting their highest daily maximum temperature for the month at 25.9C.<\/p>\n

The forecaster said that a marine heatwave also developed off the west coast through April and May, with sea surface temperatures over 2C warmer than average in some coastal areas.<\/p>\n

Met \u00c9ireann also recorded a very warm summer, with five stations recording their warmest summer on record and five other stations having their warmest summer in 30 years.<\/p>\n

September was reported as being cooler than average, ending the run of warm months between February and August.<\/p>\n

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In terms of climate change, Met \u00c9ireann said that Ireland’s overall warming is continuing in line with the global warming trend.<\/p>\n

It said that while last year was relatively dry up until August, the last four months of the year was very wet with a number of heavy rainfall events.<\/p>\n

The forecaster said that last autumn was the fourth wettest on record and provisional rainfall data suggests that last year was the 15th wettest year since 1941.<\/p>\n

“We experienced five named storms in 2025, as well as a number of impactful rain events,” said climatologist Paul Moore.<\/p>\n

“The continued warming brings with it the increasing risk of severe weather events.”<\/p>\n

With the latest climate change projections indicating further warming in the future, Met \u00c9ireann said that “temperature change means the likelihood of extreme weather events occurring has increased”.<\/p>\n

It said that rainfall patterns are expected to change with an increase in dry periods and heavy rainfall events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year was the second warmest year on record in Ireland since 1900, according to Met \u00c9ireann. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-270549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115849038684930637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}