# The highest daily temperature EVER recorded in Ireland is 91.9 Fahrenheit
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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 23, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419 "2009-08-23T20:51:38Z")
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/1 "2009-08-23T20:51:38Z")
I had no idea the island of Ireland [was so temperate.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland)
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> Climate
> Overall, Ireland has a mild but changeable oceanic climate with few extremes. The warmest recorded air temperature was 33.3 °C (91.9 °F) at Kilkenny Castle, County Kilkenny on 26 June 1887, whereas the lowest recorded temperature was −19.1 °C (−2.4 °F) at Markree Castle, County Sligo on 16 January 1881.[24]
Irishmen that moved to the American west in days of yore must have been suffering!
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/2 "2009-08-23T21:39:13Z")
They suffer today if the temperature goes above 70. Not that it ever does.
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### Author:  [@supergoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supergoose)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/3 "2009-08-23T21:54:04Z")
One more reason why I curse the gods for not making me Irish.
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### Author:  [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/4 "2009-08-23T23:15:48Z")
I’m gonna guess this has a lot to do with the fact that in Ireland the furthest you can get from the (mostly rather cool) ocean looks to be about 55 miles.
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### Author:  [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2009, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/5 "2009-08-23T23:19:06Z")
Heh, I should move to Ireland. Though it sounds like it gets pretty cold there.
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### Author:  [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/6 "2009-08-24T00:03:51Z")
> [@ruadh](#):
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> They suffer today if the temperature goes above 70. Not that it ever does.
I can live with that. How are the winters?
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### Author:  [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/7 "2009-08-24T01:36:49Z")
Years ago, I was planning a trip to Ireland in February. People thought I was crazy, but it was a lot warmer in Ireland in February than _Nebraska_ in February. Hell, it was almost a tropical vacation to go to Ireland in February.
(Ended up going in May.)
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### Author:  [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/8 "2009-08-24T03:01:51Z")
I remember shocking an Irish friend of mine by telling her that we actually get tornadoes in Ohio. She was horrified when I told her about one time here in OH when we had two tornado warnings in three days.
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### Author:  [@Jerseyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerseyman)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/9 "2009-08-24T03:12:13Z")
Don’t remind me! I have a colour-chart solid-state thermometer card that tells me I should be at 21° and above is wasting energy. No thanks, 21° is where cool stops, 25° is comfortable, 30° warm and from 35° up ‘hot’. Last I looked, it was on 27° because it doesn’t go any higher. Of course Dublin’s a long way North (about 56°) and I come from 49° but it is still depressingly too far from the Eurasian landmass to benefit from hot winds coming that way or South from Spain and the Sahara just as it is to suffer from the Siberian blasters that make winter a misery in France.
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### Author:  [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/10 "2009-08-24T04:27:15Z")
Does my Irish ancestry explain why I have never managed to acclimate to central California summers, despite having spent nearly half my life in central CA? Anything over 100 and I turn into a puddle.
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/11 "2009-08-24T04:28:52Z")
Where I live, we get a range of ten below to 110 above. That’s -23 to 43C.
And we can get weeks of either. Is that unusually wide? Because I see people mentioning how people from out west faint in 105 in Georgia. Can’t be any more humid than it is up here.
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/12 "2009-08-24T06:46:43Z")
> [@cwthree](#):
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> I can live with that. How are the winters?
Dark. Dark as hell. The sun sets at 3.30 in the afternoon.
The winters certainly aren’t bad by Nebraska standards, but my most recent reference point is San Francisco, and they’re colder than that.
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### Author:  [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/13 "2009-08-24T15:34:06Z")
> [@ruadh](#):
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> Dark. Dark as hell. The sun sets at 3.30 in the afternoon.
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> The winters certainly aren’t bad by Nebraska standards, but my most recent reference point is San Francisco, and they’re colder than that.
That sounds like a fair trade for cool summers. Better than fair, in fact. Where does the line for immigration start?
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/14 "2009-08-24T15:37:30Z")
The record high for Hawai’i is 100° F.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/15 "2009-08-24T16:35:43Z")
> [@mswas](#):
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> Heh, I should move to Ireland. Though it sounds like it gets pretty cold there.
Heh. I was just thinking “Wow, it only goes down to -2 ?!”
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### Author:  [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/16 "2009-08-24T18:00:58Z")
Ah the winters in Dublin aren’t that cold. I love Irish weather. I dunno if I’ll ever be able to move to Ohio. Where in the US has similar weather to Ireland?
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### Author:  [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/17 "2009-08-24T19:52:26Z")
> [@An Gadaí](#):
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> Ah the winters in Dublin aren’t that cold. I love Irish weather. I dunno if I’ll ever be able to move to Ohio. Where in the US has similar weather to Ireland?
Kodiak! The other [Emerald Isle](http://www.kodiak.org/).
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### Author:  [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/18 "2009-08-24T19:56:04Z")
> [@cwthree](#):
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> That sounds like a fair trade for cool summers. Better than fair, in fact. Where does the line for immigration start?
Can you hold a spot for me, as well? I’ve lived in LA all my life, and yet I still get unpleasantly warm when it goes over 80 degrees. Ireland sounds like my kind of place!
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### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/19 "2009-08-24T20:17:57Z")
Ireland has palm trees. (Seriously.)
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/20 "2009-08-24T20:31:44Z")
> [@cwthree](#):
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> That sounds like a fair trade for cool summers. Better than fair, in fact. Where does the line for immigration start?
I wouldn’t be so fast to accept very short daylight hours. You’ll be shocked how negatively it affects you.
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