Global climate change is having a clear and ongoing impact on Ireland.
A joint Environmental Protection Agency, Met Éireann and Marine Institute study shows Ireland is officially warmer and wetter.
The annual average air temperature here has increased by just under 1 degree, with rainfall 6 per cent higher between 1989 and 2018, than the previous three decades.
Greenhouse gas and sea levels are also continuing to rise.
Frank McGovern, the EPA's chief climate scientist, says the type of rain falling in Ireland is changing too.
"What that means is that we're getting wetter, and the type of rain we're getting is also changing.
"We're getting more intense rainfall, because as the atmosphere warms up it can hold more moisture, so when it rains it really rains."
