Phew, what a scorcher!, as the tabloids would trumpet about the heatwave which hit Ireland - and most of Britain - over the weekend, but the big question on everybody's sunburned lips yesterday was "How long will it last?"
"Not very long," said Met Eireann, long-accustomed to its role as the purveyor of doom and gloom. Eastern parts are likely to get another day of sunshine, but the spell will be broken by lunchtime tomorrow by another belt of rain.
A weak cold front coming in from west will mean an increase in cloud cover as well as lower temperatures, a spokesman said glumly, then a more active rain belt will spread eastwards this evening or tonight, bringing rain even to the sunny south-east.
The sweltering weather yesterday was not evenly spread throughout the country. Ulster and Connacht, nearly always the poor relations weather-wise, did not enjoy anything like the sustained sunshine which bore down on most of Leinster and Munster.
In Dublin, the city centre seemed unusually quiet yesterday afternoon because so many day-trippers had flocked to the beaches to enjoy this burst of summer. Having been starved of sunshine and really warm weather since the end of May, it was easy to see why.
Brittas Bay, Killiney, Dolly mount, Portmarnock and Sandycove - the favourite places for Dubliners disporting themselves on a hot, summer day - were black with sun-worshippers and it's a fair bet that many would spend the night nursing raw, lobster-red flesh.
Truly, as someone once said, we are at heart a Mediterranean people without the climate. For some reason, we have ended up on this cool, wet is land in the north-east Atlantic and it doesn't suit us at all. But when the sun does come out, we take to it like ducks to water.
According to Met Eireann, eastern parts of Ireland will remain dry and "reasonably sunny" today, but by midday tomorrow "it will be more or less broken everywhere" as the present Azores High is pushed south by a rain-soaked North Atlantic Jet Stream.
Yesterday evening, a few showers were already moving into western parts of Munster, though it remained dry almost everywhere else. And yes, it was hot. The highest temperature so far this year - 25.3 Celsius - was recorded at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel.
