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Low temperature/ice warning issued for whole country as temperatures to drop below -3 degrees

The warning will kick in at 5pm today and will remain in place until midday tomorrow.

LAST UPDATE | 30 Nov 2023

IT’S SET TO be a cold few days ahead with a low temperature/ice warning to kick in for most counties later today. 

Met Éireann has issued a Status Yellow low temperature/ice warning for all counties. This will kick in at 5pm today and will remain in place until midday tomorrow. 

The forecaster has warned conditions will be very cold with temperatures expected to fall below -3 degrees in many areas. 

Frost and ice developing will cause hazardous travelling conditions, it said.

In the North, the UK’s Met Office has issued a Yellow ice warning for Antrim, Down and Derry. This warning will kick in at 5pm today and will remain in place until 10am tomorrow. 

Looking at the general forecast, Met Éireann has said there will be some frost and icy patches this morning with a light dusting of snow locally across the northeast. 

Scattered wintry showers will mainly affect eastern counties, with many other areas staying dry with sunny spells and some stray wintry showers. 

The forecaster said that while most of the wintry showers will present as a mix of rain and hail, there will be a chance of sleet and snow, especially over higher ground in the east. 

Tonight will be very cold with a widespread sharp to severe frost and icy stretches. 

Conditions are to remain dry and clear across most areas. However, some scattered wintry showers are forecast to move into west Connacht and west Ulster, as well as along parts of the east coast. 

Temperatures are expected to drop as low as -5 degrees tonight. 

Tomorrow is 1 December and marks the first day of the meteorological winter. 

Tomorrow morning, frost, ice and any mist or fog is due to gradually clear with a dusting of snow locally, mainly in the northwest. 

Looking ahead, Met Éireann said conditions will be “very cold with frost, ice and some wintry precipitation”. 

While most areas will be dry and calm tomorrow night, some showers of sleet and snow are forecast, mainly across the northwest. 

It will be very cold again with lowest temperatures of -4 degrees with a widespread sharp frost and icy patches. 

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    Mute Jim Brady
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    Apr 9th 2012, 10:49 AM

    I rememer in the 1980s on BBC the weatherman used to talk about “rain coming in from Ireland”, like we had big rain making machines and we would all blow over the misery to our friends acrosss the water.
    Of course nowadays it’s all automated…

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    Apr 9th 2012, 10:04 AM

    if it’s raining in Galway no matter..The weatherman/woman will always be smiling as long as its dry along the east coast… That’s the main thing

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    Apr 9th 2012, 9:25 AM

    Magic 8-Ball

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    Apr 9th 2012, 11:50 AM

    They nornally seem to get it right with their “rain with sunny spells” or “sunny with scattered showers” forecasts. Anyway I’d say we will be able to control the weather before we can correctly predict it.

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    Apr 9th 2012, 1:21 PM

    We can actually control it- its just very expensive. Google cloud seeding.

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    Apr 9th 2012, 1:31 PM

    I’ve read up on it before. It’s expensive like you say and also difficult to implement and there’s more to weather than simply cloud cover. We still have some ground to cover before we can actually claim control of the weather.

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    Apr 9th 2012, 3:56 PM

    Today’s weather will be mainly sunny with some showers, many prolonged and heavy.

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    Apr 9th 2012, 1:47 PM

    How much of an impact does cloud seeding by jet vapour trails have?

    I think during the few days of a transatlantic flight ban after 911 there was a measures reduction in cloud cover over IRL and Atlantic or was that an urban legend?

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