Record November temperature recorded at Westmeath weather station

Met Éireann said provisional data showed that its weather stations in Westmeath, and ten other parts of their country recorded their highest-ever November temperatures on Wednesday.

The remarkably mild and settled conditions saw the temperature climb to 17.7 degrees Celsius at the weather station in Mullingar. This was slightly above the previous peak at the 74-year-old station, of 17.3 degrees Celsius, on November 12, 1990.

In addition to Mullingar station, new November temperature records were set on Wednesday at weather stations in Mace Head, Galway; Casement Aerodrome, Dublin; Markree, Sligo; Finner, Donegal; Athenry, Galway; Gurteen, Tipperary; Mount Dillon, Roscommon, and Claremorris, Belmullet and Knock airport in Mayo.

The highest temperature recorded across the 25 Met Éireann stations in Ireland on Wednesday was 19.2 degrees Celsius at the Phoenix Park in Dublin.

This was still below the all-time record for a November temperature in Ireland, which is the 20.1 degrees Celsius, recorded at Dooks, in county Kerry, on November 1, 2015.

The month of October was a mild and dry one overall, and temperatures have edged even higher since the beginning of November, with the mild weather looking set to continue over the coming days.