The sunniest Spring in decades will see temperatures top 30C (86F) within a fortnight

Hot Spring weather to roast Ireland from the beginning of next week

THERMOMETERS are expected to be sent rocketing next week as Ireland is set to experience record hot Spring temperatures.

Forecasters say the heat will start on Tuesday and keep rising throughout the second half of May.

And experts say it will set the scene for the hottest summer in decades with Ireland and Britain enjoying “heatwave after heatwave” through June and July.

Extreme “heat surges” will push up from the continent sending this month into the record books with temperatures expected to soar above average.

James Madden, forecaster for Exacta Weather, said May is shaping up to be a scorcher.

He said: “Despite a much fresher and slightly more unsettled outlook in the coming days, there is now agreement that high pressure will dominate for the remainder of May.

“This will allow many parts of the country to bask in well above-average temperatures – with a number of heat surges around the mid month period and during the final third of the month.”

“All of this will deliver optimum conditions for heatwave after heatwave during the start of the meteorological summer, and several of these heat surges are likely to be of some major significance in terms of the maximum recorded temperatures.”

Piers Corbyn, forecaster for WeatherAction, said Britain and Ireland will turn “very hot” again from around Tuesday next week as the Continental airflow returns.

He said: “From the 17th it will be generally dry and fine before becoming very hot in the southeast with a few showers in Scotland.

“Winds will become southerly with most places sunny while staying variable in Scotland.

“It is turning into one of the most contrasting Mays on record with some extreme temperature ranges seen.”

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Forecasters are also anticipating a warmer than usual May overall with above-average temperatures expected into next month.

And NUI Maynooth climatologist Dr John Sweeney said April was the hottest month ever recorded globally.

He told Newstalk Breakfast: “I think climatologists have generally been expecting this kind of a sequence to occur for many years now.

“The Pacific Ocean covers half the globe so when it warms up naturally temperature records tend to get broken.

“Even with the cooler waters, the ocean has warmed up so much that even then we can expect a continue serge in global temperatures over the next few years.

“We’ve been expecting it for many years. It’s just sad that it’s happening so quickly and it also has some implications of course for the future.”