Temperatures to hit almost record levels in NI today

Temperatures are to keep climbing today as it could hit around 30 degrees Celsius in Northern Ireland.

That’s close to the record temperature here of 31.3C, set on the 21st of July 2021 in Castlederg, County Tyrone.

Yesterday the UK experienced the hottest ever June Day on record as it reached 36.1 degrees in Hampshire in England.

A red heat health alert's still in place in parts of England and Wales.

Meanwhile record temperatures in the Republic of Ireland will be “challenged” today, a meteorologist said, with conditions to be “very hot” across the country.

The highest temperature recorded in the Republic of Ireland was 33.3C at Kilkenny Caste on June 26 1887.

Asked if that record could be broken, Met Éireann meteorologist Gerry Murphy said temperatures would be in the high 20s everywhere and potentially into the 30s in the Midlands and Connacht.