Mostly dry and settled week with mild sunshine

Weather update from Met Éireann

Mostly dry and settled with high pressure largely dominating this week. Mild in sunshine, especially across the west. Currently it looks more unsettled towards the weekend. That's the latest weather bulletin from Met Éireann.

Mostly cloudy early this morning but low cloud, mist and fog will break up through the morning leaving another pleasant day of sunny spells, while a scattering of showers will also develop, mostly during the afternoon hours. Highest temperatures of 13 to 18 degrees, best in the midwest away from onshore breezes along southern and eastern coasts in light to moderate southeast breezes.

Dry with clear spells early tonight, in light southeast breezes, mist and fog will set in, turning dense in parts. Low cloud will also increase along coastal counties of Leinster where patchy drizzle may develop at times locally. Lowest temperatures of 6 to 10 degrees, but potentially a little cooler where clear spells persist.

Any mist and fog will clear quickly tomorrow morning to leave a mostly dry sunny day although a few isolated light showers are possible in the west. Brisk moderate easterly breezes will keep temperatures in the east between 11 and 15 degrees with highs up to 16 to 18 degrees in the west.

Mostly dry and clear Tuesday night in moderate easterly breezes. Although cloud will increase in the east later in the night leading to a stray light shower or two. Chilly with lows of 4 to 7 degrees.

A cloudier cooler day overall on Wednesday and that will bring a scattering of showery outbreaks through the morning, but sunny spells will develop in most parts during the afternoon but showers may persist in the south. Highest temperatures of 11 to 14 degrees, in mostly moderate easterly breezes.

Any showers in the south will gradually die away overnight on Wednesday with good clear spells elsewhere temperatures will dip to between 4 and 8 degrees in mostly moderate easterly winds, although they may be fresh at times in the south.

Dry sunny conditions will return for Thursday although the wind is going to dictate the temperatures with mostly moderate easterly winds limiting highs in the east to between 11 and 13 degrees, but getting up to between 14 and 16 degrees in the west.

Thursday night will be mostly dry and clear but chilly with lowest temperatures dipping to between 2 and 6 degrees away from the coasts in light to moderate easterly winds.

Quite a bit of uncertainty for Friday but there will be more cloud about generally and there is the chance of showers at times highs will hold between 11 in the east and 15 degrees in the northwest in moderate to fresh east winds.

Further outlook: The weekend has a high degree of uncertainty although there is an increased chance of rainfall and generally more unsettled conditions.