Met Éireann has scotched rumours that there will be a heatwave next week, but says temperatures are likely to rise.

Weather forecaster Evelyn Cusack apologised for an incorrect forecast yesterday.

‘We were giving some showers, but basically it started to rain the night before and rained all day yesterday. We got up to about 15mm in a stream of rain coming in from the Irish Sea, affecting about one million people,’ Ms Cusack said.

While it will get better in the coming days, Ms Cusack was quick to dispel hope of anything like the searing temperatures being experienced across the Atlantic Ocean in the United States and Canada.

‘There is a rumour that it is going to be a heatwave next week. I’m afraid there isn’t going to be a heatwave next week, but we will get some pleasant summer weather,’ she said.

‘So it’s sort of an improvement, but I’m not giving dry and sunny conditions.

‘Each year we hope that it’s going to be a fine summer, but we are at the wrong latitude for fine weather in Ireland.'

Ms Cusack suggested that if we were down near the island of Madeira, which is off the West African coast, we would have a better chance of sunny summers.

‘A warm summer and a sunny summer is an exception, I’m afraid,’ she said.

