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Storm water overflows into Dublin Bay from the country’s largest sewage treatment plant have surged by 80pc this year due to months of unrelenting rainfall.
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The second half of 2023 left households and businesses dealing with adverse weather events as Storms Agnes, Babet, Ciarán, Debi, Elin, Fergus and Gerrit all left their mark
Storm season kicked off earlier than normal this year with the arrival of Agnes, but that doesn’t necessarily mean she will have many followers.
Met Éireann said provisional data indicates that Ireland has experienced its warmest June on record, with temperatures averaging about 16C.
Annual climate data for Ireland and Sweden show warming since 1988. There has been no trend in Antarctic sea ice, though the ice shelf is melting.