Heavy rain with risk of spot flooding

Weather Update

A cloudy and dull day today as outbreaks of rain become widespread. Rain will turn heavy through the afternoon and evening, leading to the risk of spot flooding. Highest temperatures of 7 to 9 degrees. Rather breezy in moderate to fresh and gusty southwest winds, strong on Atlantic coasts, veering westerly during the evening.

Outbreaks of rain will be widespread tonight, turning heavy at times with the risk of spot flooding. The rain will clear later in the night allowing temperatures to fall to between zero and plus 3 degrees, with frost and ice forming. Moderate to fresh westerly winds will fall light and variable with the clearing rain.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) will be dry and sunny for a time, cloud will build from the southwest and west bringing rain later. Afternoon temperatures of just 3 or 4 degrees will rise later with the cloud and rain. Generally light easterly winds will freshen later.

Rain will continue for Tuesday night, bringing a flood risk to Ulster, the rain will remain patchier along the south coast. Coldest over the northeastern half of the country with lowest temperatures of 2 to 4 degrees there. Temperatures will be generally unchanged from the daytime elsewhere at around 9 degrees. Winds will be fresh southwesterly generally but light easterly over Ulster.

It will be mostly cloudy on Wednesday with rain clearing away to the northeast through the morning followed by scattered showers, most frequent in the west with limited bright spells. Highest temperatures of 10 or 11 degrees in moderate southwesterly breezes. Wednesday night will become mostly dry with showers dying out. Lowest temperatures of 6 or 7 degrees in mostly moderate westerly breezes.

Thursday will be a mostly dry day with good spells of sunshine and just some patchy drizzle on southern coastal counties. Highest temperatures of 7 to 9 degrees in light northwesterly breezes. Frost will return on Thursday night under clear skies with light winds, lowest temperatures at the moment look like between minus 1 and plus 1 degrees. Light winds will become southerly by morning with some mist and fog patches forming.

Cloudy but mostly dry on Friday, patches of light rain or drizzle may affect Atlantic coastal counties. Afternoon temperatures of 5 to 7 degrees in light to moderate southerly winds, freshening on Atlantic coasts later.

The further outlook to next weekend is for generally unsettled conditions with spells of rain at times and mainly southwesterly winds.