Northern Ireland hotter than Rome after recording 27.1 °C - and more 'heatwave' conditions to come
Temperatures in Northern Ireland were hotter than Rome yesterday, after the latest Met Office weather extremes found Helens Bay to have recorded 27.1 °C.
Temperatures recorded in Rome on July 8, also according to the Met Office found that the Vatican city had ‘an overall daily average of around 27°C’.
The news comes as Northern Ireland prepares for another hot day where ‘any mist or low cloud will soon burn off’ and ‘will remain dry with variable amounts of cloud and some bright or sunny spells, the best of these in the afternoon’.
The Met Office add it will ‘become very warm to hot with some cooling sea breezes’ and a maximum temperature 26 °C’.
Tonight will be ‘a warm sunny evening then a dry and mainly clear night, though low cloud and mist on north coast may drift down the Bann Valley. Minimum temperature 15 °C’.
Tomorrow, (Friday) will see ‘low cloud and mist near the north coast burning off then a dry bright day with variable cloud and some sunny spells’.
It is expected to to be ‘very warm to hot’ with a ‘maximum temperature 27 °C’.
And the outlook for Saturday to Monday is ‘a dry weekend with bright or sunny spells but the mornings starting cloudy’.
The Met Office add that Monday will be ‘dry and sunny’ and ‘very warm’.