KitLily wrote:
They have no idea about the dangers of heatwaves
That leads to an impulse to be silly and say, Do the Irish even know that sunburn exists?
Which then leads to a desire to find actual information.
Which leads to finding,
Everything you need to know about sunburn
Updated / Tuesday, 8 Jun 2021 13:10
https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/living/201 ... t-sunburn/"
We spoke to Dr Triona McCarthy, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, about what sunburn is, how to avoid it, how to treat it and why tanning might not be worth the negative effects on our health.
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With 11,000 new diagnoses of skin cancer in Ireland each year - 1,000 of which are of melanoma, the more serious form of cancer that can spread to other parts of the body - proper sun protection must be taken seriously, particularly as "a very large proportion of Irish people have the lightest type of skin", McCarthy notes.
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Met Éireann, The Irish Meteorological Service
Sunshine
Sunshine and Solar Radiation
https://www.met.ie/climate/what-we-measure/sunshine"
Ireland normally gets between 1100 and 1600 hours of sunshine each year. The sunniest months are May and June. During these months, sunshine duration averages between 5 and 6.5 hours per day over most of the country. The extreme southeast gets most sunshine, averaging over 7 hours a day in early summer. December is the dullest month, with an average daily sunshine ranging from about 1 hour in the north to almost 2 hours in the extreme southeast. Over the year as a whole, most areas get an average of between 3 1/4 and 3 3/4 hours of sunshine each day. 1887 was the sunniest summer in the 100 years from 1881 to 1980, according to measurements made at the Phoenix Park in Dublin. A more recent summer, 1980, was the dullest.
The tendency for coastal regions to record more bright sunshine than inland areas is the result of the convective development of clouds over land. This daily development of cloud is due to the vertical air currents as a result of thermal heating of the ground. Upland areas are also prone to low values of bright sunshine because of greater cloudiness especially on slopes facing the prevailing winds.
The most important variations of daily bright sunshine are due to seasonal changes corresponding to changes in the sun’s elevation. The mean daily bright sunshine at Rosslare is almost 1.9 hours in winter, 5.3 hours in spring and 6.1 hours in summer.
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