April showered with bets on record temperatures at 2/1; Easter Forecasts for 20°C have bookies feeling the heat!

We've had hail, snow, fog, sunshine and gale force winds and bitter cold in the past few weeks.... now Irish punters are hoping to ditch the woollies for Easter after backing the history books to be rewritten with record high temperatures before April is out.

The week may be set for a wet beginning, however, the bets are down after Met Eireann predicted a warm Easter weekend with temperatures on Good Friday tipped to soar as high as 20°C!

BoyleSports were forced to cut their odds of 9/2 into 2/1 that April would record its hottest temperature of all time after some optimistic weather enthusiasts took a punt that the mercury would surpass the previous April record of 25.8°C.

It’s also a hot 2/1 shot that Ireland’s record temperature of 33.3°C is broken this year following earlier reports from NASA that confirmed 2018 as the fourth hottest year on record.

There had also been previous bets on a white Easter in Ireland this year, however the 5/1 chances that Dublin Airport would see snowfall on Easter Sunday have been eased out to 10/1.

Lawrence Lyons, Spokesperson for BoyleSports commented: “Those banking on a snow at Easter are seeing their chances melt away if the recent forecasts are anything to go by and it’s looking like they shouldn’t have put all their eggs in the one basket. Now the tables have turned and we’re seeing some interest in record temperatures being recorded instead at 2/1 and we’ll wait to see if they are a shade on the optimistic side.”

Never mind Easter, what is the weather for Punchestown Festival to be, that's the key question?

Is it thermals or sunhats we need, wellies or sandals!

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