Windchill to make days feel colder with snow next week
Weather Update
A mostly cloudy start this morning with just a few bright or sunny spells developing. Scattered showers will affect the east of the province throughout the day, mainly dry further west. Cold with highest afternoon temperatures of 4 to 6 degrees in light to moderate north to northeast breezes.
Largely dry tonight with just isolated showers, mainly along eastern coasts. Cloudy too with just occasional clear spells. Lowest temperatures of -1 to +2 degrees with frost forming in places. Moderate to fresh easterly winds will develop.
Remaining cloudy on Sunday with just occasional sunny spells developing, the best of which will be in the morning. Isolated showers will move in from the Irish Sea, affecting mainly the east of the province, some turning wintry later. A cold day with highest temperatures of just 1 to 3 degrees in moderate to fresh easterly winds.
The national outlook for the coming days is for wintry showers, mainly in eastern counties, largely dry elsewhere. Feeling very cold during the days with low temperatures and windchill. Frosty and icy nights.
On Sunday night isolated wintry showers will affect eastern and northern areas with a dusting of snow possible. Lowest temperatures of -2 to +1 degrees, coldest over Ulster, with widespread frost and ice, in moderating easterly breezes.
On Monday scattered wintry showers will continue to move in from the Irish Sea to eastern and northern coasts with some bright and sunny spells developing there, mainly dry elsewhere. Daytime temperatures will only reach highs of 1 to 3 degrees in moderate to fresh easterly winds.
On Monday night wintry showers will become more frequent and push further inland later in the night. Very cold with clear spells and lowest temperatures of -3 to 0 degrees with a widespread sharp frost under clearing skies. Mist and fog will develop too in mainly moderate easterly winds, fresh to strong in the southwest.
It's expected to stay very cold again on Tuesday with daytime highs of just 1 to 3 degrees in fresh easterly winds, strong on southern coasts. Wintry showers will continue to feed in from the east, affecting mainly the northeast and east with some accumulations possible. More isolated showers will continue to reach further inland. Turning bitterly cold overnight with lowest temperatures of -4 to 0 degrees with a severe frost and icy stretches causing hazardous conditions. Winds will ease overnight with fog developing.
Further wintry showers will occur through Wednesday. Highest temperatures only reaching 2 or 3 degrees for much of the country. Light to moderate easterly winds will freshen on Atlantic coasts towards the evening as a band of rain arrives from the southwest, gradually extending into much of Munster overnight, preceded by falls of sleet and snow. Another very cold night with lowest temperatures of -4 to -0 degrees.
Current indications suggest it will be very windy on Thursday with further falls of sleet and snow over much of the country, with more persistent rain developing in the southwest. Temperatures will increase towards the weekend.