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Irish Independent
20 hours ago
- Climate
- Irish Independent
Met Éireann issues rain warning for three counties this Bank Holiday Monday
Forecasters have issued a Status Yellow rain warning for Galway, Mayo and Kerry for Monday afternoon and evening. Met Éireann are warning of 'heavy rain with very strong, gusty southerly winds near the coast.' They have told the public to be aware of the risks of localised flooding, poor visibility and difficult travelling conditions. The warning comes as June 1 marks the start of the meteorological summer, but Ireland seems to have not received the memo as the recent spell of unsettled weather continues. We need your consent to load this Social Media content. We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review your details and accept them to load the content Anyone heading to the Women's Mini Marathon, the penultimate day of Bloom or one of the many football championship games up and down the country should pack an umbrella and bring the good coat. Today will be breezy with some sunny spells and light showers. Showers will turn more frequent in the northern half of the country as the south enjoys the best of the sunshine. Highest temperature will be between 13 and 18C. "So, it's the first day of meteorological summer, and unfortunately it isn't quite starting out as we hope the summer will go,' meteorologist Rebecca Cantwell said on Met Éireann's morning forecast. "As we continue through the bank holiday weekend, our weather is set to remain fairly unsettled.' Tonight will be mostly dry with long clear spells and lows of 5 to 9C. Bank holiday Monday will see a dry start in the morning with some sun and just isolated showers. It will turn cloudier during the day however, with rain spreading across the country into the evening and turning heavy in some areas. Highest temperatures will range from 13 to 17C. Met Éireann's outlook for the start of the coming week is no better, with more 'unsettled' weather on the way and rain expected each day. Monday night will start off wet before the rain clears, leaving clear spells and some scattered showers, with lows of 6 to 10C. Both Tuesday and Wednesday will see a mixture of sunny spells and showers. On Thursday, showers will spread from the northwest of the country and there may be a spell of rain in the south. Beyond that, the current forecast shows the rest of next week will stay 'largely unsettled' with showers and spells of rain.
Irish Independent
a day ago
- Climate
- Irish Independent
Official start of summer in Ireland brings more ‘unsettled' weather
Anyone heading to the Women's Mini Marathon, the penultimate day of Bloom or one of the many football championship games up and down the country should pack an umbrella and bring the good coat. Today will be breezy with some sunny spells and light showers. Showers will turn more frequent in the northern half of the country as the south enjoys the best of the sunshine. Highest temperature will be between 13 and 18C. "So, it's the first day of meteorological summer, and unfortunately it isn't quite starting out as we hope the summer will go,' meteorologist Rebecca Cantwell said on Met Éireann's morning forecast. "As we continue through the bank holiday weekend, our weather is set to remain fairly unsettled.' Tonight will be mostly dry with long clear spells and lows of 5 to 9C. Bank holiday Monday will see a dry start in the morning with some sun and just isolated showers. It will turn cloudier during the day however, with rain spreading across the country into the evening and turning heavy in some areas. Highest temperatures will range from 13 to 17C. Met Éireann's outlook for the start of the coming week is no better, with more 'unsettled' weather on the way and rain expected each day. Monday night will start off wet before the rain clears, leaving clear spells and some scattered showers, with lows of 6 to 10C. Both Tuesday and Wednesday will see a mixture of sunny spells and showers. On Thursday, showers will spread from the northwest of the country and there may be a spell of rain in the south. Beyond that, the current forecast shows the rest of next week will stay 'largely unsettled' with showers and spells of rain.
Agriland
a day ago
- Health
- Agriland
Growers discuss control of potato blight in Ireland
Irish growers fully recognise the need to secure effective blight control within their crops at all times. But some firmly believe they are not operating on a level playing field. The recent Teagasc farm walk hosted in Co. Meath provided those in attendance with an opportunity to air their views on this subject. Some claimed that potatoes grown in gardens and allotments, where fungicides are not used, represent a potent blight threat to commercial farmers. In tandem with this, the view was expressed that the non-commercial production of potato crops should be banned by the government. Organically produced potato crops were also cited as potent blight threats for the commercial potato sector. Blight control These were lines of thought that prompted a debate on how best the Irish potato sector can best protect itself against the fast-evolving threat of blight. Teagasc plant disease specialist, Dr. Steven Kildea, foresaw a future within which Integrated pest management (IPP) techniques would rise to the fore. He said: 'But in the here and now, we have to ensure that the fungicide chemistries available to the potato sector are used to best effect. 'Such an approach should also ensure the optimal longevity of these products.' Breeding new potato varieties with inherently higher resistance to fungal attack was flagged as part of the potato sector's response to blight. According to Dr. Kildea: 'But this is not a long-term, silver bullet. There is no doubt that fungal strains will evolve to counter the blight resistant properties of new potato varieties that we can breed. 'What we are looking at is a continuing battle – the grower versus the various blight strains that impact on Ireland.' Chatting at the Teagasc potato farm walk, (l-r): Daniel Williams and Rory Young, both from Lobinstown in Co. Meath The Teagasc representative also confirmed the value of the blight warnings issued by Met Éireann. 'However, these should be considered with evidence on the ground secured by growers actively walking their crops on a regular basis. 'For example, heavy dews can create conditions that are conducive to blight even during periods of dry weather.' But it wasn't all bad news emanating from the farm walk. The event was used as a platform to confirm the availability of a new blight fungicide, Privest from BASF, which has ametoctradin as a core active ingredient. Launched in the UK last year, Privest is a fungicide for use on a preventative basis and in the early stages of foliar late blight. It has been specified for use at the early season/rapid canopy stage within the 2025 Teagasc blight programme. BASF has indicated that there is sufficient Privest in Ireland to meet farmer demand at the present time. However, a number of growers at the Co. Meath farm walk indicated they could not source supplies of the product at all.
Irish Times
a day ago
- General
- Irish Times
The key to a happy long-term relationship? Permission to talk about boring things like computers
I had to buy a new computer. For some, that sentence might prompt a sort of internal shrivelling as they brace themselves to be bombarded with details about processor speeds and RAM size. Others might be dying to know, or even have strong opinions on the subject. I'll avoid all that, other than to tell you that I had to buy a new one because the old one couldn't update from Windows 10 to Windows 11. The reasons why are far too dull to go into, though I do feel compelled to defend my old computer. It wasn't rubbish and I was perfectly happy with it. It was more a case of technological bad luck. Like being born allergic to wine. The Windows people had been sending me 'alerts' – a word seemingly chosen to be deliberately alarming – that the supports for Windows 10 would stop in October, soon after exposing my computer to the possibility of malfunction and, more darkly, security intrusions. I'd wake up one morning and find that I'd have to pay a bitcoin ransom just to be able to log on to the Met Éireann website again. You may be one of those people who knows stuff. Like the fact that there were alternatives to paying out for a new desktop box that looks pretty similar to the old desktop box. And if you are, and wish to tell me about it, please don't. Our world is full of divisions, and one of them is between people who like talking about this kind of thing, and those who don't. READ MORE I could see she had to summon inhuman amounts of willpower to stop her eyes from rolling back in her head An integral part of having a properly functioning long-term relationship is the permission to be boring with each other, and to talk, at least part of the time, about boring things. Myself and Herself will discuss Daughter Number Four's schedule, what we need for the weekly shop, and the problem of getting a secure supply of Ace bleach. It was during such a chat that I told her about my computer changeover; or more precisely, all the palaver involved in moving all the files and programmes from one box to another. Even though it was our Boring Safe Space, I could see she had to summon inhuman amounts of willpower to stop her eyes from rolling back in her head. And I didn't blame her. Because she hears computer-related talk every day at work. Many of us do. In my home office, there's the computer, but also a 70-year-old Royal typewriter that, back in the stone age, I would use to write articles. But I would never have dreamed to write an article about the typewriter. As far as I recall, there were not magazines with titles like TypewriterMag; nor were there people having fevered discussions about the best models and how to operate them. The typewriter was regarded as a tool. The computer, and all the systems it connects to, is also a tool. Admittedly, it's a gazillion times handier than all the things it has replaced, but it's still a tool. Yet it is fetishised, having an inordinate influence on our work and our lives. It barges in between the worker and whatever it is they are trying to produce, in a way other tools don't. A wrench won't influence how a plumber fixes your leaky toilet. But if you work in any sort of office-based job, a certain portion of your day will be devoted to concentrating on or talking about the primary tool you use: the computer. Teams or Zoom or figuring out how to do something on a spreadsheet. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. The computer is fierce handy. Yet there is something slightly creepy about the fact that the tools on our computer, owned by huge corporations, influence how we work, how we communicate and in subtle ways, how we think. You'd wonder who we are actually working for.
Irish Times
2 days ago
- Climate
- Irish Times
Ireland weather: No shortage of wind and rain this Bank Holiday weekend
Met Éireann has forecast unsettled weather for this bank holiday weekend, with temperatures nearing 20 degrees but rain and wind in no short supply. Showery outbreaks will track eastwards this afternoon, with spells of sunshine and scattered showers following, according to the forecaster. Temperatures may reach highs of 15 to 20 degrees in the early evening. Those outbreaks of rain will then move into the west and northwest, gradually spreading eastwards again overnight. Met Éireann predicts that Sunday will see highest temperatures of between 13 and 18 degrees in moderate to fresh westerly winds. Again, there will be a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers, with most of the rain hitting the northern half of the country. The best of the sunshine should reach people in Munster and along the southeast coast. Sunday night is forecast to be mostly dry, with lowest temperatures of between five and nine degrees. The morning of Bank Holiday Monday should remain fairly dry, Met Éireann says, though it will grow cloudier in the afternoon as rain pushes into western areas before eventually moving east. The rainfall will grow heavy and is set to be accompanied by gusty southwest winds. Highest temperatures are likely to fall to between 13 and 17 degrees. READ MORE The mixed weather is expected to continue further into the week, with a mixture of sun and showers forecast in the days to come, as well as blustery conditions at times. The forecaster suggests a much more settled picture could arrive in the second week of June. It says the weather will be drier than normal and the temperatures will likely be around or slightly above average, although this extended range forecast is more uncertain.
