1995 Great Britain and Ireland heat wave
County Station August 1995 maximum temperature Date
Carlow Oak Park 31.5 °C ( 88.7 °F ) 2
Clare Shannon Airport 29.8 °C ( 85.6 °F ) 17
Cork Cork Airport 28.0 °C ( 82.4 °F ) 3
Kilkenny Kilkenny 30.8 °C ( 87.4 °F ) 2
Offaly Birr 29.4 °C ( 84.9 °F ) 17 / 18
Ireland
29.8 °C ( 85.6 °F ) 28.0 °C ( 82.4 °F ) 30.8 °C ( 87.4 °F ) 29.4 °C ( 84.9 °F ) 31.5 °C ( 88.7 °F ) Stations with highest temperature during August 1995 While temperatures were lower , Ireland experienced a similar weather pattern to that of the United Kingdom during the summer of 1995 . The Valentia Observatory and the weather station at Phoenix Park both recorded a daily mean temperature of 16.6 °C ( 61.9 °F ) , and it was the warmest summer for over a century . Kilkenny recorded a total of 27 days with temperatures over 25 °C ( 77 °F ) during the heat wave , compared to the 2.5 days that the town usually records , [ 17 ] and was one of the hottest parts of the country during the heatwave , recording a maximum temperature of 30.8 °C ( 87.4 °F ) . Like the United Kingdom , Ireland received exceptionally low rainfall , and it was the driest summer on record for the weather stations at Malin Head , Casement Aerodrome and Cork Airport . The overall rainfall recorded during the summer at Phoenix Park was only 65.1 millimetres ( 2.56 in ) . [ 18 ] The highest temperature recorded during the heatwave was 31.5 °C ( 88.7 °F ) and was measured at Oak Park in County Carlow on 2 August . It is currently Ireland 's hottest August temperature reading , equalling the measurement at Ballybrittas in County Laois on 3 August 1975 . [ 19 ]
The 1995 United Kingdom and Ireland heat wave was a severe weather event that occurred between late July and late August. It was part of one of the warmest summers recorded in the UK, and one of the warmest Augusts ever recorded in many locations around the UK, as well as being one of the driest summers ever recorded in the UK; many weather stations recorded the summer of 1995 as drier than, or comparable with, the summer of 1976. Ireland was also widely affected by the heatwave with temperatures reaching over in some locations, as well as exceptionally low rainfall throughout the summer.