Mark Dunphy, of Irish Weather Online. Where is the frickin’ heatwave we were all promised?

Mark?

There has been much talk in recent days in relation to a possible heatwave affecting Ireland during the latter part of July and into early August. Present indications are that Ireland will experience a break from the unseasonably cool and wet conditions of Summer 2011 during the coming week.

The atmospheric pressure chart shows an Azores high extending north-eastwards towards Ireland later this coming weekend and during next week.

As a result, temperatures will rise significantly in most parts of the country with temperatures showing a good 10-12 degrees rise on today’s 12-13C along parts of the East coast.  However, it is unlikely that the country will enjoy wall-to-wall sunshine as one would expect with high pressure nearby or over us.  Humidity levels  will increase significantly, while marine cloud and elevated fog will drift some distance inland on some days.

No. Mark. Stop.

You had us at “temperatures will rise significantly”

Continued in greater (and genuinely more fascinating) detail here.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

In the wake of the recent arrests of 16 suspected members of the hacker collective Anonymous in the US, the headless ones have issued a statement:

We recently stumbled across the following article with amazement and a certain amount of amusement. The statements made by deputy assistant FBI director Steve Chabinsky in this article clearly seem to be directed at Anonymous and Lulz Security, and we are happy to provide you with a response. You state:

“We want to send a message that chaos on the Internet is unacceptable, [even if] hackers can be believed to have social causes, it’s entirely unacceptable to break into websites and commit unlawful acts.”

Now let us be clear here, Mr. Chabinsky, while we understand that you and your colleagues may find breaking into websites unacceptable, let us tell you what WE find unacceptable:

* Governments lying to their citizens and inducing fear and terror to keep them in control by dismantling their freedom piece by piece.

* Corporations aiding and conspiring with said governments while taking advantage at the same time by collecting billions of funds for federal contracts we all know they can’t fulfil.

* Lobby conglomerates who only follow their agenda to

push the profits higher, while at the same time being deeply involved in governments around the world with the only goal to infiltrate and corrupt them enough so the status quo will never change.

These governments and corporations are our enemy. And we will continue to fight them, with all methods we have at our disposal, and that certainly includes breaking into their websites and exposing their lies.

We are not scared any more. Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea. Any attempt to do so will make your citizens more angry until they will roar in one gigantic choir.

It is our mission to help these people and there is nothing – absolutely nothing – you can possibly to do make us stop. “The Internet has become so important to so many people that we have to ensure that the World Wide Web does not become the Wild Wild West.” Let me ask you, good sir, when was the Internet not the Wild Wild West? Do you really believe you were in control of it at any point? You were not.

That does not mean that everyone behaves like an outlaw. You see, most people do not behave like bandits if they have no reason to. We become bandits on the Internet because you have forced our hand.

The Anonymous bitchslap rings through your ears like hacktivism movements of the 90s. We’re back – and we’re not going anywhere.

Expect us.

AnonymousIRC on Twitter

 

Broadsheet.ie