Hurricane Erin latest as Irish weather expert admits 'very uncertain' forecast
Summer conditions are set to die out for the duration of this week as temperatures continue to drop and the risk of showers never being too far away. There will be plenty of sunny spells before Sunday but from then, the weather looks like it will take a turn for the worse.
This comes as Hurricane Erin continues to cause chaotic conditions on the east coast of America but it looks like it will weaken before it reaches Ireland. That doesn't mean we'll escape the wet and windy remnants of the hurricane, however.
Met Eireann forecasts that the last week of the month will see more unsettled weather arrive amid a spell of low pressure. Rainfall totals are set to be above average for the time of year, particularly in the south and west.
Irish weather expert Alan O'Reilly, who mans the popular @CarlowWeather account on X, has given the latest update on Hurricane Erin and its path.
"Next week becomes very, very uncertain," he said. "The latest on Hurricane Erin is that it's in the Atlantic.
"It's going to move... and it's going to weaken and it's going to lose its hurricane status around the weekend is the latest forecast. It'll become an extra tropical storm and it'll weaken even further than in the Atlantic.
"Now the uncertainty this introduces makes it almost impossible to forecast beyond early next week.
"So forecasting for Electric Picnic is really, really difficult at the moment. Every app, every website you see is going to chop and change. You're going to see about 10 different forecasts before we get close to it so don't go too high or too low depending on the forecast that you see.
"There is a risk of some more wet and windy weather coming towards us, yes, that is a possibility but really, this far out, it's very hard to know.
"It won't be a hurricane. It will be weakening even if it does end up near us so at the moment, it's wait and see."
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