For the past four years, every season in Ireland has been warmer than its long-term average temperature.
That is twelve seasons in a row.
An update from Met Éireann also shows that the meteorological spring of 2024 was one of the warmest and wettest springs on record.
Temperatures on the Island of Ireland during February, March, and April this year averaged 10.12 degrees Celsius.
This makes it the second warmest spring in the series of records stretching back over 125 years.
It was also 1.75C warmer than the 1961-1990 long-term average, and one degree warmer than during the 30 years ending in 2020.
It is the fourth time in 125 years that average spring temperatures in Ireland exceeded 10C. The other occasions were 1945, 2017, and 2023.
Met Éireann said that record high sea surface temperatures continued across the North Atlantic and helped to boost mean temperatures in spring this year.
However, it also increased the moisture content in the atmosphere and contributed spring 2024 being the sixth wettest recorded in 84 years of rainfall records.
Rainfall totals were above average nearly everywhere.
Weather stations at Moore Park in Co Cork, and Johnstown Castle in Co Wexford, had their wettest spring since 1981.
Also, Phoenix Park in Dublin and Mount Dillon in Co Roscommon had their wettest spring days on record.
The report highlights that the jet stream - which is a highly influential narrow band of predominantly westerly winds blowing about 10km of up in the air - was further south than usual. This steered numerous low-pressure systems over, or to the south of, Ireland during March and April.
This led to a wet spring for the midlands, south and east. However, the northwest escaped with slightly below average rainfall.
High night-time temperatures were a feature during the season, which boosted overall mean temperatures.
The report also shows that spring 2024 was dull despite being the second warmest spring in record.
Sunshine totals were below average everywhere.
Casement Aerodrome in Dublin and Shannon Airport, Co Clare had their dullest spring since 2014. Dublin Airport had its dullest spring since 1996.
Meanwhile sunshine levels at Cork Airport were lower than in any spring in recorded in 61 years of sunshine records.
