Dry and sunny today with temperatures of up to 14 degrees

Weather update from Met Éireann

Dry and sunny today. Highest temperatures of 11 to 14 degrees, in a moderate to fresh easterly breeze.

Dry and clear on Thursday night. Lowest temperatures between 2 and 5 degrees, locally lower bringing a light frost in light easterly breezes.

Mainly dry and sunny to begin on Friday. Cloud will increase through the morning with patchy outbreaks of rain and drizzle developing through the afternoon and evening. Highest temperatures 13 to 15 degrees in the north and west, 10 to 12 degrees in the east and south. Winds will be moderate to fresh easterly.

Mostly cloudy on Friday night with patchy rain and drizzle. Lowest temperatures of 4 to 6 degrees as light to moderate easterly breezes become northerly by morning.

Saturday will be a mostly cloudy day with showers or longer spells of rain. Highest temperatures of 9 or 10 degrees over the northern half of the country and between 13 and 15 degrees further south with light northerly breezes.

Mainly dry on Sunday to start with some sunshine, afternoon showers will develop. Temperatures on Sunday between 7 and 9 degrees in the north and 10 or 11 degrees in the south. Currently it looks like it could potentially turn frosty on Sunday night.

With some uncertainty in the forecast, the best indication at the moment suggests Monday will be mainly dry with sunny spells and just isolated showers. Temperatures between 8 and 10 degrees in light northerly winds.

The uncertainty revolves around the timing of progress of Atlantic frontal systems bearing rain. The early days of next week look like seeing that rain arrive in to the southwest and move eastwards.