Experts say the mild weather at the moment shows the climate here is becoming more extreme.
Temperatures reached a peak of 17.3 degrees in Roscommon this week, although the top temperatures so far in Clare reached just 15 degrees.
This time last year, the country was getting ready for blizzard-like conditions as the Beast from the East hit.
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Dr John Sweeney is a climatologist at NUI Maynooth says the unseasonably mild weather is helping to convince people of that action on climate change is needed.
