Cloudy with sunny spells today, dry and sunny tomorrow

Weather update from Met Éireann

Today will be rather cloudy with sunny spells improving later in the day. Mainly dry with the chance of an isolated shower. Highest temperatures of 11 to 13 degrees in mostly moderate easterly winds, fresh at times near the east and south coast.

There'll be a few showers tonight affecting southern and southwestern counties, it will stay dry elsewhere as skies clear. Lowest temperatures of 2 to 5 degrees in mostly moderate easterly winds, fresh at times.

Dry and sunny tomorrow, Thursday. Highest temperatures 11 to 14 degrees, as moderate to fresh easterly winds ease later.

Dry and clear on Thursday night with lowest temperatures between 2 and 5 degrees with light northeast 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 over the southern half of the country, isolated showers further north. Highest temperatures 13 or 14 degrees in moderate to fresh northeasterly winds.

Mostly cloudy in the east and south on Friday night with patchy rain and drizzle. Drier and clearer for a time in the west and northwest with cloud increasing there too overnight. Lowest temperatures of 2 or 3 degrees in light to moderate northeast breezes.

Saturday will be a mostly cloudy day with showers or longer spells of rain. Highest temperatures of 11 to 13 degrees in light easterly or variable breezes.

Mainly dry on Sunday to start, afternoon showers will develop. It'll turn colder later as winds become northerly. Temperatures on Sunday between 9 degrees in the north and 14 degrees in the south then currently it looks like it could potentially turn frosty again overnight Sunday night as a cold northerly airflow becomes established.

Current indications suggest a cold but mainly dry situation for the start of next week with rain arriving from the west midweek.