Just A Little Something To Cheer You Up… Grab Your Sunnies, We’re In For A Scorcher Of A Summer

The wait is over.

Us Irish are finally being rewarded for the multiple school summer holidays of our youth when we raced raindrops on our bedroom windows.

A well-known weather forecaster has predicted that Ireland is finally set for a summer scorcher after years, and years, of summer washouts.

Ken Ring, the long-range forecaster from New Zealand, who predicted Ireland's recent Arctic winters, uses the moon, sun and tidal activity to make his forecasts months in advance.

We like the sound of this guy.

The weather expert is predicting a wet spring with rain to continue for the first three months of the year. We can deal with that, because guess what’s coming up next…

Ring is forecasting that there could be a heat wave reminiscent of the Mediterranean-style temperatures of 1995 with three largely dry months this year.

In July, he says temperatures will reach a tropical 30 degrees with possibly drought conditions expected in August followed by a balmy September.

He said he expects 2013 to be a much warmer year than last year.

"2013 should be a warmer year, wet for the first three months, then a season that may remind people of the summer of 1995, with long dry spells, especially the first half of July," he said.

Mr Ring, a regular face on Australia's Channel Seven and followed by plenty of Irish farmers, said the Irish public could finally expect some rays of sunshine this summer.

He is recommending people take their summer holidays in Ireland in the first half of July or the second half of August.

He is also listing April 16 to April 25, May 12 to May 19 and June 17 to 25 as optimum times for booking a week in the sun in Ireland.

Have you got the dates down? Time to have a chat with the boss for holidays right about now we’d say…