# The highest daily temperature EVER recorded in Ireland is 91.9 Fahrenheit **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/41 "2009-08-25T18:17:39Z")
Minnesota is close. -60 and 114. ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/42 "2009-08-25T18:35:40Z")
> [@supergoose](#): > > I’ve seriously never been more shocked to learn something on the dope. Well, at least since the pineapples-don’t-grow-on-trees revelation. Wait wait wait… Pineapples _don’t_ grow on trees?! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/43 "2009-08-25T18:44:59Z")
From what I’ve heard, Ireland only gets snow about once every 20 years or so. I’ve been there in the summer, and it was very nice (rained at least some every single day, though), but I could never live anywhere that didn’t get snow. I’d also prefer somewhere with more uniform day lengths: Summer nights for stargazing, and enough light in winter to not be clawing at the inside of my skull. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/44 "2009-08-25T18:49:03Z")
> [@supergoose](#): > > :eek: I’ve seriously never been more shocked to learn something on the dope. Well, at least since the pineapples-don’t-grow-on-trees revelation. Just to set you straight, Ireland doesn’t have _native_ palm trees, but you can grow 'em there. By the way, that lowest recorded temperature of -2F must have been pretty freakish. In general, temperatures below 0 **Celsius** are relatively rare in a typical Irish (or British) winter, at least as far as daytime temps go. Last winter was reckoned to be a severe one by modern standards, and the lowest it got (in England) was around -11C (12F), with the lowest daytime maxes about -2C (28F). Ireland was probably a few degrees warmer than that, mostly. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/45 "2009-08-25T19:02:28Z")
> [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](#): > > Wait wait wait… Pineapples _don’t_ grow on trees?! No. Don’t it just blow your mind? They grow on a plant!! [http://foodscience.wikispaces.com/file/view/pineapple.jpg](http://foodscience.wikispaces.com/file/view/pineapple.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/46 "2009-08-25T19:24:20Z")
So no one is Ireland ever has a fever? 😃 StG ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/47 "2009-08-25T20:06:02Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > 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? Seattle is about as close as you can get, but even Seattle has more variation. We just had a record breaking 105 degree heat wave last month, and get some sort of snow pretty much every winter. Usually those snows are a couple of inches that melt within hours or days, but this winter we got a heavy fall of a foot, then melting enough to form a solid ice crust, then another foot, which lasted for a week. Trees crashed to the ground, power lines were down, roads were clogged. The biggest difference is that here the ocean air gets stopped by the nearby mountains and dumps all the moisture on us. Ireland is pretty flat comparatively so I suppose the moist air just hits the island and keeps going. ---
**Author:** ![supergoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@supergoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supergoose)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/48 "2009-08-25T21:11:21Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Just to set you straight, Ireland doesn’t have _native_ palm trees, but you can grow 'em there. Oh thank God. The world was upside down for me for a little while there. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/49 "2009-08-25T21:17:56Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > From what I’ve heard, Ireland only gets snow about once every 20 years or so. It depends on the part of the country, and what you mean by ‘snow’. There has never been anything near what an American would think of as a proper snowstorm in Dublin in my memory. Once or twice in my lifetime I recall there being maybe half a foot of snow on the ground, probably less. It seldom snows enough in Dublin to stick. Further west and north, it is more common to have a decent snowfall but it is seemingly less common in recent years. The big snowstorms that we’ve had, pathetic by American standards, enter the folk memory so I’ve heard numerous times about how snowy and cold it was in 1947 and 1981. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419/50 "2009-08-26T02:32:03Z")
Mrs G and I were in Ireland for a week this past February. Limerick, Cork, Dublin and the Boyne Valley. There was snow on the ground in the mountains south of Dublin (Dublin Mountains, Wicklow Mountains?). The temperature ranged from cool enough in the morning to leave some frost to the high 50s and low 60s F in the early afternoon. It sure beat Iowa in February. Incidently, not really palm trees. More palmetto bushes. The whole place was lovely and green though, even with the bare trees. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highest-daily-temperature-ever-recorded-in-ireland-is-91-9-fahrenheit/507419.md?page=2)