Weather forecast: Bright afternoon ahead
It's looking like a humid day ahead. Today will be rather cloudy and misty to start and there'll be a little patchy drizzle at times. The cloud will slowly break up through the afternoon with brighter weather developing later. The weather forecast predicts afternoon temperatures ranging from 17 to 19 degrees, the best where any sunshine breaks through. Winds will be light to moderate from a southwest direction, becoming light variable later.
Warning: The solar UV index will be high in sunshine.
Tonight will be largely dry and clear with light variable winds becoming light to moderate southwesterly later. Temperatures will fall to no lower than 10 or 11 degrees.
Met Éireann says that tomorrow (Wednesday) will be mainly dry once again with good sunshine expected. It'll become cloudier in the west later with a chance of a little light rain or drizzle developing. Temperatures in the afternoon will reach 19 to 21 degrees, the best where the sun shines longest. Winds will be moderate to fresh southerly in direction, veering west and decreasing later.
The outlook for Wednesday night is for another mainly dry night with light westerly or variable winds. Temperatures no lower than 7 to 10 degrees.
The national weather forecaster says Thursday will be dry with sunny spells for much of the day. Light easterly winds will increase during the day, becoming fresh to strong by Thursday night. The freshening winds will bring thickening cloud in to western areas, with rain in the southwest on Thursday night. Temperatures on Thursday are expected to reach 20 degrees.
On Thursday night outbreaks of rain will spread northeastwards over the country, turning heavy at times. It will be a breezy nights with temperatures no lower than 10 or 11 degrees.
Friday is promised a windy day with overnight rain clearing early Friday morning to sunshine and showers. The showers will be most frequent over the western half of the country with the southeast becoming largely dry. Temperatures on Friday will be a few degrees cooler between 13 and 16 degrees west to east. The showers will mostly die out on Friday night.
There'll be sunshine and showers on Saturday with a fresh southwest wind.
Currently the further outlook for the rest of the weekend and for the early days of next week is for pressure to build from the south once again with rising temperatures returning in mainly dry weather.