In this issue of Weather

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In this month's issue, we begin on p. 151 with a re‐examination of drought in Ireland, as reported in newspapers. Conor Murphy, Simon Noone, Catriona Duffy, Ciaran Broderick, Tom Matthews and Robert L. Wilby show that, even in the usually moist climate of Ireland, droughts occur irregularly, but with serious effects in ‘Irish droughts in newspaper archives: −rediscovering forgotten hazards?’On p. 155, Andrew J. L. Harris and Massimo Lanfranco look at the terminology of extreme rain events in ‘Cloudburst, weather bomb or water bomb? A review of terminology for extreme rain events and the media effect’. There remains some duplication of expression for dangerously wet weather and, perhaps, a need for unambiguous terminology to describe very heavy rainfall.Research into the South Asian monsoon system remains an important area for research and the planning stage for the airborne monitoring campaign of the current Interaction of Convective Organisation and Monsoon Precipitation, Atmosphere, Surface and Sea is given in ‘The 2015 Indian summer monsoon onset – phenomena, forecasting and research flight planning’ by Peter Willetts, Andrew Turner, Gill Martin, G. Mrudula, Kieran Hunt, Doug Parker, Christopher Taylor, Cathryn Birch, Ashis Mitra, Julian Heming and Malcolm Brooks on p. 168. In 2015, the development of the summer monsoon was subject to a ‘virtual campaign’ to check that appropriate plans would be in place to monitor the monsoon the following year.Earlier this year – in January – we looked at the effects of cold weather on the population of Lublin, Poland. Now Krzysztof Bartoszek and Agnieszka Krzyżewska turn to the human cost of hot weather in ‘The atmospheric circulation conditions of the occurrence of heatwaves in Lublin, southeast Poland’ in our final paper for June, beginning on p. 176.