{"id":496614,"date":"2026-05-22T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/496614\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T00:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:16:10","slug":"ulster-and-leinster-finals-to-take-place-amid-extreme-heat-warning-in-spain-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/496614\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster and Leinster finals to take place amid extreme heat warning in Spain \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leinster-rugby\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leinster-rugby\/\">Leinster<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ulster-rugby\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ulster-rugby\/\">Ulster<\/a> will have to deal with an early summer heatwave in northern Spain if they are to win their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/champions-cup\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/champions-cup\/\">Champions<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/challenge-cup\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/challenge-cup\/\">Challenge Cup<\/a> finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ulster will play Montpellier at the San Mam\u00e9s Stadium in the Challenge Cup final in Bilbao at 8pm on Friday, before Leinster take on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/bordeaux-begles\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/bordeaux-begles\">Bordeaux B\u00e8gles<\/a> at the same stadium in the Champions Cup final at 2.45pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Spanish state meteorological agency, Aemet, has issued an extreme heat warning for the whole country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Friday afternoon will hit a scorching 38 degrees according to Accuweather, with caution advised for fans travelling to the game if outside for an extended period of time. Temperature is expected to stay close to 30 degrees by the time Ulster\u2019s match kicks off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Saturday, temperatures are expected to be more than 30 degrees again, with a real feel of 34 degrees around the time of Leinster\u2019s match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is a jarring change for Bilbao after it had midday temperatures as low as 16 degrees last week. The massive thermal swing has \u201cput health services on alert for heat-related complications\u201d according to Sur in English.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Against two teams from the south of France more accustomed to the hot weather, it will be another obstacle for the Irish teams to overcome against stiff French opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster and Ulster will have to deal with an early summer heatwave in northern Spain if they are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[56840,56839,18,19,17,12861,383,132,23200],"class_list":["post-496614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-challenge-cup","tag-champions-cup","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-spain","tag-sports","tag-ulster-rugby"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116615354322331298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496614","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=496614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}