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−0.6°C on 30 August
Mount Dillon, Co Roscommon, had an air frost in summer: −0.6°C on 30 August 2010.
Met Éireann counts only two first frosts of autumn that came in August: this one, and −2.7°C at Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, on 30 August 1964, still Ireland's lowest August temperature. Both fell on 30 August. The station sits on Bord na Móna land north of Lanesborough, and it had the country's first autumn frost again in 2022, on 17 September.
