'Mini heatwave' predicted after coldest April in decades

Temperatures are set to soar to 22 degrees Celsius next week as sizzling summer conditions are set to banish a miserable Spring.

The best days are expected to be Monday and Tuesday as the weather shows signs of settling down for the time of year.

Official figures released by Met Éireann today showed temperatures dropped as low as -3 degrees in Sligo last month.

Dublin recorded coldest April in 27 years — with ground frost recorded in the capital on 23 days of the month. The city also endured its dullest April since 1998, according to records from the weather station at Casement Aerodrome. Cork Airport recorded the month’s overal wettest day on the 10th at 44mm - the wettest April day in almost 40 years.