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.
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This time last year, the country was getting ready for blizzard-like conditions as the Beast from the East hit.
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.
