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THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE this autumn was 11.27C, which is .48C higher than the most recent long-term average, according to Met Éireann.
Overall, Met Éireann described this year’s autumn as “mild, dry and relatively dull” despite the arrival of storms Bert and Ashley.
Nearly all rainfall totals were below their 1981-2010 Long-Term Average this autumn, the forecaster said. At the same time, all mean air temperatures across the country were above their Long Term Average for the season.
“The season fluctuated between high and low pressure dominance and between cooler Polar maritime and warmer tropical maritime airmasses,” the forecaster said in its Climate Statement for Autumn 2024.
This autumn was the 19th warmest since 1900, with the warmest autumn being in 2021 with 12.02C. The coldest autumn was in 1905 with 8.34 °C.
September was the driest of the three months and cooler than average overall, the statement said.
“October was mild everywhere and dryer than average for most of the country, apart from the Southwest. Low pressure dominated at times, especially at the end of the first week and during the third week when storm Ashley, named by Met Éireann, brought the windiest period of the season,” the statement said.
November was mild and “relatively dry overall, but dull”, Met Éireann said.
“The first half of the month was dominated by cloudy high pressure, which brought mostly mild and dry conditions. The second half of the month was much cooler and wetter with low pressure more dominant.”
There was a brief cold period towards the end of the third week, which brought frost, fog and lying snow in some places, was followed by storm Bert, which brought the wettest period of the season.
This autumn was also notably windy, especially due to the arrival of storms Bert and Ashley.
The highest gust was 74 knots (137 km/h) reported at Mace Head, Co Galway on Sunday 20 October during storm Ashley.
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I don’t see the issue here. Giving back to society after being jailed for taking something from it. Better than sitting in a cell playing the PlayStation.
@Luke Littler: I should’ve clarified, that part of my comment was inferring to the scr0tes in Irish prisons.
@Padhraic McLaughlin: Take it easy Padraic – you will have the Irish Council for civil liberties for prisoners and law breakers and that outfit penal reform on ranting for the evening.
Prisoners being useful to the community that the committed crimes against. A good idea.
They are trained and when released have new skills to help them stay on the straight and narrow.
Yu cannot pay them the same but they could be insured in case of serious accidents or worse.
A lot better than making coffee tables and cake stands like our lot do!
Cheap prison labour is economically important in the USA and it is not about Rehabilation or Giving Back to the Community. That is PR. It is a big part of why the USA has such a high imcarceration rate.
@Des Hanrahan: the so called ‘Land of the Free’
@Dave G Doe: Prison is about rehab, not revenge..
Now this might seem harsh, but I honestly don’t think that they should be getting paid at all. We don’t pay people for community service, why should taxpayers foot the bill for people who have committed even more heinous crimes which required incarceration? The fact that some inmates are getting $30 per day despite possibly being serial abusers or violent murders/robbers just doesn’t sit right with me. Incarceration is not meant to be a reward but a consequence of their actions. Taxpayers are already funding their housing, food, healthcare, and security, why add a paycheque on top of that for work that’s part of their restitution? Work in prison should be seen as part of paying their debt, not as an opportunity to draw a salary funded by the very people they’ve wronged.
A morally bankrupt country
@Fergus O’Donnell: should help with the DEI inclusion targets also !
Activity is part of helping people In institutions cope with waiting to get back on track. Laundries were a standard activity for girls gardening for boys but firefighting is another level.
The 13th amendment to the US Constitution is widely taught to have ‘ended’ slavery, but it merely converted it into “convict leasing”, and US prisons need a steady supply of prison labour so the US has one of the highest proportions of its population incarcerated, and all of the work they do is for profit, not for rehabilitation: https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-alabama-3b2c7e414c681ba545dc1d0ad30bfaf5 Of course, work placement can be an essential part of prisoner rehabilitation, but that’s not what’s happening in the US.
@Stephen Wallis: All work is for profit. Anyone who works for nothing will never be out of work.
Bodie will get the gal, it’s all gonna be just fine! Don’t look up!
some things never changed.
This is what you get when you prioritise paying for wars in foreign lands
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