LAST UPDATE | 17 Nov 2019

A STATUS YELLOW low temperature warning will take effect for most of the country this evening.

Met Éireann has warned a very cold night is ahead with temperatures set to reach as low as -2 to -4 degrees in the affected areas.

This will bring widespread severe frost with the risk of icy patches.

The warning takes effect from 9pm this evening and lasts until 10am tomorrow morning.

Dry and very cold tonight with a widespread frost. Minimum temperatures zero to -4 degrees. Mist will thicken into fog overnight with some extensive fog and freezing fog possible by morning, leading to hazardous driving conditions. pic.twitter.com/xC2SxjAM57
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) November 17, 2019

Met Éireann / Twitter

It will apply to 22 counties and the only counties to which the warning does not apply are Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford and Waterford.

Mist will turn into fog overnight, with Met Éireann warning that “extensive and freezing” fog may be a possibility.

Tomorrow morning then will be bright and dry, with frost set to clear and temperatures recovering after a very cold start to the day.

Met Éireann has forecast conditions becoming milder as the week goes on but it will remain unsettled with rain or showers on most days.

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