{"id":619,"date":"2010-12-03T13:07:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T13:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=619"},"modified":"2024-06-06T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T12:08:10","slug":"note-on-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/note-on-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"NOTE ON THE WEATHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plumeting Temperatures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Liam Kenny<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-IE\">The exceptionally severe weather conditions are making history in&nbsp;their own right and it is particularly extraordinary to have two severe weather events in the same calendar year (January and November\/December). A little fact that I have been telling people is that the coldest temperature recorded in Ireland in the twentieth century was at Lullymore Research Centre, Co.Kildare on 2 Jan 1979 when the mercury plunged to minus 18.8c (officially accredited by Met Eireann). There was a minus 19.1 in Sligo back in the 1880s so our county holds the record for the second most extreme temperature recorded in Ireland &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong><em>A little historical note by Liam Kenny on the current severe weather conditions!&nbsp; <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>A little historical note by Liam Kenny on the current severe weather conditions!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events-2"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}