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The stats that jump out to me are

• Daily mean: All 4 June days above 24°C in 254 years were in June 2026 (23–26 June: 24.1, 24.3, 25.0, 26.5°C).
• Daily maximum: 4 of the 5 hottest June days on record were in June 2026; the series record is 26 June 2026 at 32.8°C, exceeding the 1976 heatwave peak of 30.3°C.
• Daily minimum: The warmest June night on record was 26 June 2026 at 20.1°C — 2.8°C above the previous record from 22 June 1941 (17.3°C).

Central england Data from Hadcet and made with Python and Javascript. There is an interactive version at
https://odon.at/en/data-stories/record-june-temperature-in-england/

Clicking around makes it more intuitive how odd these temperatures were.

I heard of the Trial before Ireland's last ever witch trial

And there was a story a few months ago about the memorial stone being moved

But I did not know that the memorial stone did not have anything about their innocence and politicians objected and some even rejected the idea of a memorial

Today is the day you (🫵!) get access to 80TB plus of data from over 30 astronomical surveys in one place. 4GB of RAM is enough even at Gaia Scale. Check out our writeup here:

https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-science/multimodal-universe-hats

And a tutorial here https://asciinema.org/a/1259218

There can be a huge fight over terms here: Head of government, Taoiseach, First Minister and deputy First Minister (the rare non capitalised proper noun), direct rule or 'we were on a break' etc.

But I made this graph and was surprised to see visually how dominant FF have been in power. How often NI has not had a government.

Data from wikipedia
code is rpackage ggplot2. A slightly modified version of this older version.
I posted this yesterday but found an error and got advice on how to make the graph better so here is an improved version.

R package ggplot2 code. Data from wikipedia
A slightly modified version of this older code i wrote

Interesting map from https://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/sports-recreation/sport/wexford-hurling/the-geography-of-hurling/the-present-hurling-regio/

Another article with more detailed maps https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0717/1460508-gaa-geography-hurling-football-strongholds-clubs-county-titles/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqeOEQTlBxo

I read about this years ball and remembered about the terrible ball in the South African World Cup and wondered what the difference was.
One rabbit hole later I wrote up the differences and graphed some of them here https://odon.at/en/data-stories/football-2026-world-cup-jabulani/

Short answer is a really smooth ball acts like a beach ball and a bumpy one like a golf ball.

Made with python and data from
Goff, J. E., Hong, S., Leung, R., & Asai, T. (2026). Trionda: Enhanced surface roughness relative to previous FIFA World Cup match balls. Applied Sciences, 16(6), 2808. https://doi.org/10.3390/app16062808 and wikipedia