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THE COLD WEATHER is set to continue into next week, with sub-zero temperatures, hail, sleet and snow forecast.
Met Éireann says today will remain dry, with bright and sunny spells in the afternoon.
Tonight will be very cold, with widespread frost and a risk of icy patches on untreated surfaces.
Temperatures will drop to between minus 2 degrees and 2 degrees Celsius.
Tomorrow morning, the forecaster says, will be mainly dry with frost clearing quickly.
However, outbreaks of rain are expected to develop along the west and southwest coasts by late morning, moving eastwards during the afternoon and early evening.
Temperatures will range between 4 and 8 degrees, being coldest in Ulster.
Conditions are set to get worse tomorrow night, as scattered shows continue to move in across the country from the Atlantic.
Some of the showers are due to be heavy and possibly thundery, turning increasingly wintry overnight, falling as a mixture of rain, hail, sleet and snow. This will produce a heightened risk of icy stretches on untreated surfaces.
Temperatures will again drop to between minus 2 degrees and 2 degrees Celsius.
Conditions look like they will be similar moving into Tuesday, will sunny spells and widespread showers.
The showers will continue to be wintry in nature, falling again as a mixture of rain, hail and sleet.
Showers will become increasingly confined to western and northern coasts on Tuesday night and long clear spells will develop. However, there is still a risk of further wintry falls, mostly for inland Ulster, Met Éireann says.
Time to get bread and milk
@Gisbert Bayertz: no not just yet still signs of east winds but until possibly nxt weekend or early the following week modules having bad time all giving different outcomes
@Gisbert Bayertz: How original.
Winter finally arrives.
@Ed: Not until April 14th
Normal for this time of year.
@John O’Keeffe: it’s almost two months late
Can’t wait for the ‘scattered shows’
@Brian Jones: me too. Love watching the scattered shows.
Cool.
@Andy McGranaghan: Winter is coming
Time to make use of public sector sick leave!
Lidl under special attention.
Wet eireann playing it safe and bowing to corporate pressure, not a hint of a colored warning to be found.
Status Beige weather alert.
I might come home to thaw out,woke up to -47c this morning.
@John Sleator: Canada?
@John Sleator: Brr, where are you that it’s so cold?
@Jane Alford: yes spot on,north Ontario
Still it’s better than over at the Mirror newspaper where the temperatures always ‘plummet’ 2 degrees. Very frightening.
Lovely jubely
Imagine if the words “ wintry, drizzle, showers, rain, widespread, windy and gradually were banned in Met Eireann forecasts, and they had to use happy upbeat descriptions!!! Now that would be far less depressing for everyone.
Not exactly polar temperatures there.
Not yet. I’m waiting on it to freeze out before I defrost my freezer.
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