As you wake up this Sunday morning you will be waking up to nice fine sunny weather across Ireland and the reason for this is due to a very high and rare area of high pressure sitting just to the northwest of Ireland which has lead to a increase in pressure this morning across much of Ireland with the Monthly all time record been broken at many of Met Eireann’s weather stations.

There is some cloud across eastern and southern parts this morning but sunny spells also breaking through which can be seen on the latest satellite image below

The all time monthly air pressure record for March has been smashed this morning in many places with the previous recorded for the month recorded back in the year of 1900 on the 13th of March at Valentia, Kerry with a pressure reading of 1047.1hPa. The new record this morning has been recorded at Malin head Donegal of 1052hPa and this will undergo a quality control check at the Met Eireann stations which will the exact reading which will be over the 1050hPa reading as pressure still continues to rise at the station as well as other this morning.

This is also the second highest all time pressure reading recorded in Ireland this morning with the highest pressure reading ever recorded at Valentia, Kerry in the year of 1905 on the 28th of January of 1051.9hPa.

There is also a outside chance that this record could also be broken this afternoon as the pressure still is rising across the northwest of Ireland.