Mild, breezy, cloudy and humid day ahead
Weather update from Met Éireann
A mobile Atlantic regime continues to dominate bringing mixed and changeable conditions.
Today will be mild, breezy, humid and mostly cloudy with outbreaks of rain and drizzle. Some drier, brighter intervals will develop in Connacht and Ulster in the afternoon. Highest temperatures of 15 to 19 degrees with moderate to fresh, gusty southwest winds.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy with further outbreaks of rain and drizzle, which will mostly clear to the southeast by morning. Clear intervals and some mist patches will follow as moderate southwesterly winds ease. Mild with lowest temperatures of 10 to 13 degrees.
Friday morning will be mainly dry with a fair amount of cloud and some sunny breaks. Scattered showers will develop in the afternoon. Highest temperatures of 16 to 20 degrees with light to moderate west to southwest breezes.
Saturday will start off mainly dry. Rain will spread eastwards across the country through the morning and early afternoon. The rain will clear during the afternoon with sunshine and showers following for the rest of the day, some heavy in the northwest. Highest temperatures of 15 to 19 degrees with moderate to fresh southwest winds, but becoming very windy later near Atlantic coasts, with strong to gale force and gusty southwest winds developing in the evening and continuing for a time on Saturday night along with further showers or longer spells of rain.
Sunday will be breezy with a mix of sunshine and showers. It will be cooler with highest temperatures of 13 to 17 degrees and moderate to fresh and gusty westerly winds.
Bank Holiday Monday will be mainly dry with sunny spells and just a few showers. However, rain will develop in the west by the end of the day and will spread eastwards on Monday night. Highest temperatures 14 to 17 degrees. Light to moderate southwest winds will increase moderate to fresh southerly in the evening.
Current indications suggest that Tuesday will be a wet day and that the weather will remain unsettled for the rest of next week.