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LAST UPDATE | 2 Jan
IRELAND IS SET to experience bitterly cold winter nights with Met Éireann warning of “very disruptive weather”, including heavy snow, in the days ahead.
Hazardous travelling conditions are forecast for the weekend, with a weather advisory warning of “significant accumulations” of snow in some counties.
The forecaster says very cold and impactful weather is expected this weekend, with an area of low pressure bringing rain, sleet and disruptive amounts of snow.
It will be drier in the early days of next week but the bitterly cold conditions will remain, amid lying snow, widespread severe frost and scattered wintry showers.
Low temperatures of -7 degrees are expected on Monday night while Tuesday and Wednesday are also set to be cold days, with temperatures ranging from -10 at night in some areas to 4 degrees during the day.
Met Éireann said a low temperature and ice warning will take effect for the country from 6pm this evening and it is expected to lift at 11am tomorrow.
In the North, a yellow ice warning has been in place since yesterday. The UK Met Office said this will lift later this morning.
In its advisory published for Saturday and Sunday, Met Éireann said rain, sleet and snow will continue throughout the weekend before clearing on Sunday eastwards into the Irish Sea.
The Road Safety Authority has urged people travelling to exercise caution, warning of hazards such as black ice on the country’s roads.
⚠️Yellow Warning – Low Temperature/Ice ⚠️
— RSA Ireland (@RSAIreland) January 2, 2025
📍 Ireland
📅 Thur 2, 6pm – Fri 3, 11am
Very cold with widespread frost and ice as temperatures fall to -3 degrees or below in many areas. Potential Impacts:
• Hazardous travelling conditions
• Animal welfare issues pic.twitter.com/GzXJFVk9ex
Saturday night will see widespread heavy falls of rain, sleet and snow with lowest temperatures of -2 to +1 degrees according to Met Éireann.
Sunday will bring further falls of rain, sleet and some further significant snowfall accumulations for a time.
Met Éireann warns it will be “feeling very cold” with highest temperatures of 2 to 7 degrees, with the added wind chill from fresh and gusty northerly winds. This is expected to be stronger on the coast.
Temperatures are set to plummet again on Sunday night – it will range between -5 to 0 degrees.
Next week, an Arctic airmass will mean “treacherous conditions with some significant accumulations of lying snow”, along with widespread severe frost and ice.
It’s expected further weather warnings will be issued heading into the weekend.
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Winter is coming just as House Stark predicted.
@Ger Whelan: you know nothing ger whelan
@Ger Whelan: Winter is coming just as Carlow Weather predicted
@Ger Whelan: But sure, ” Dancing with the Stars” is back on Sunday night. What more could you want !
@Nemethon: I’m more concerned about the daffodils that are all showing their trumpets albeit 6 weeks early. We need this and I think January is going to be harsh……
@Ger Whelan: In other news.. Happy Reconquista Day
@Ger Whelan: no sht sherlock,,,
@Nemethon: sure winter comes every year, no need for any predictions or false prophets!
@Nemethon: Carlow weather predicts this every few weeks. Eventually it would happen.
@Pelagius Asturias: is that still going on? Who knew
@Patrick MC Dermott: if it gets any colder they will be dancing on ice.
@Enoch Kochwomble: eh?
more tax will fix this too .eamonn said so!
I wish that this global warming thingy would get going.
@Declan Young: try opening your eyes.
Potential Impact , animal welfare …. glad to see the homeless don’t feel the cold ….all 15000 of em , go FFFG
@DC: serious question, do you think all 15k homeless people are sleeping on the street?
@M To The B: He does..
Talking about roads ,why are we continuously repairing old windy roads
Can we not build straight roads on stilts and let the old roads for Tourists and locals, another idea, build up the banks at the side of the roads and put walking and cycling, wheelchair etc paths on them.
@Dan Murphy: hahaha, very good.
@Dan Murphy: Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked road without improvement is the work of genius.
Doors of Perception
William Blake
@Dan Murphy: better idea why don’t we build a monorail track system from everyone’s house whereby everyday you program in your intended itinerary hop in your monorail car and get taken there no more gritters needed no more deaths on roads as every car is on a rail governed by a set speed and distance apart only vehicles that use tarmac are emergency services or logistics services
@Nemethon: I hear those things are awfully loud?
@Dan Murphy: Nope. Same roads for the last 100 years, completely different usage and we’re all on them at the same exact time. We’re a mind bogglingly dumb people…
@Dan Murphy: Roads? Where we’re going we won’t need roads.
@T S: It glides as softy as a cloud.
Frosty January, what a surprise
@Karl Pinker: it’s winter what do we want at this time of year just get on with it and stay safe
@Karl Pinker: No surprise. Just a forecast.
@Alan Moloney: It’s a winter forecast. What do you want at this time of year?
So the 2nd ESB freebie from our government will last less than 5 mins when it cums next week
@liam ward:
Jasyus lad €125 every five minutes! You should get a stove and put turf in it!!!
yes, burn the dirt from the ground… the future cometh
@liam ward: I’d say you cum in less than 5 minutes as well Liam
By the way, my comment above has been done in Spain, paid for by the EU. That walking path goes Villena, Biar etc.Its a pleasure to walk there.We need people with imagination in our planning departments.As for public transport, use Marshrutkas. Look at the Georgian system
https://www.travelsofabookpacker.com/blog/public-transport-tbilisi
Simple never mentioned but easily done improvement. Draught sealing the interior doors of a home stops expensive heat being pushed through building.
The warmest frost ever….end of the world stuff
Met Éireann giving it the bigin. Chattin Sh!te
Dublin region a little snow in forecast for next sunday, otherwise dry and around 0° so not too cold at all. The -10 probably inland as usual
Ah yeh you can’t beat a good goose, and your head to the wind.
Climate change is now a terrifying reality
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