Cool and breezy today with sunny spells and showers

Highest temperatures of 6 to 10 degrees

Today will be cool and breezy with sunny spells and widespread blustery showers. Some will be heavy and prolonged and may cause spot flooding, particularly in the southwest, with isolated hail showers and thunderstorms also. Moderate to fresh and gusty southerly winds, veering westerly, will be strong at times in the west and southwest, with high seas also along Atlantic coasts. Highest temperatures of 6 to 10 degrees.

Widespread showers will continue early tonight, with hail and thunder possible. Some showers will be heavy and prolonged and may cause spot flooding. It will become drier overnight as showers become isolated and some mist and fog forms. Windy in places with very strong and gusty west to northwest winds in Munster and west Connacht, light to moderate elsewhere. Lowest temperatures of 0 to 6 degrees, coldest in Ulster and Leinster where frost is possible.

Friday will bring plenty of sunshine and scattered showers, mainly in the west and northwest at first and moving further east in the afternoon. Highest temperatures of 8 to 12 degrees with light to moderate west to northwest winds, occasionally increasing fresh and gusty.