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IT’S SET TO be a weekend of unsettled weather, with heavy showers expected in parts of the country and a chance of thunderstorms in places.
Met Éireann said the rain showers will also continue into early next week, but the cooler temperature will increase later in the week.
Today’s sunny start will give way to showers which will become more widespread as the day goes on and turn heavy in parts, with the chance of isolated thunderstorms.
Temperatures will reach highs of between 14 to 18 degrees in light to moderate west to northwest winds.
Scattered showers will continue early tonight, with thunderstorms also looking likely. The showers will become increasingly isolated overnight, and largely confined to the west and north, with lowest temperatures of 6 to 9 degrees.
Another showery day is expected tomorrow, with some slow-moving heavy and possibly thundery downpours developing in the afternoon and evening. Highest temperatures of 14 to 17 degrees.
The forecaster said Monday looks like it will start out mainly dry with sunny spells, with highest temperatures of 16 to 20 degrees.
However, scattered showers will break out as the day goes on, and cloud will build from the south over Munster and parts of Leinster, with patchy rain and drizzle developing near the south coast towards evening.
Tuesday will be mostly cloudy with outbreaks of rain and drizzle. The best of any drier and brighter intervals in coastal fringes of the west and north, with highs of 16 to 20 degrees.
Current indications suggest that after a mostly cloudy and damp start to Wednesday, brighter, sunnier intervals will gradually break through as the day goes on. Highest temperatures of 15 to 20 degrees.
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Rotten summer especially given the amount of rain we had over the winter..
@Tony Skillington: Yes..and to think, they want to charge us for water…the cheek eh?
@Mick Hanna: I’d actually at this stage pay for water in exchange for a decent Summer. Been an awful Summer so far, with little sign of an half decent weather on the horizon, depressing stuff really.
@Tony Skillington: Just back from Sicily. Lovely country and lovely people. One of the days the temp reached mid forties. As climates go we should count ourselves lucky. We can go abroad for the sun and have a liveable climate the rest of the year
R.I.P. irish summer. We barely knew thee
Id rather live in a wet country than say Greece or California with all the fires etc…
@Willie Marty: Why the extreme? You can live in tempered place like France. Way better climate than here.
“Today’s sunny start…” Been bucketing down since 6:30 this morning in Leitrim.
@Paddy Whelan: sun is showing itself in wicklow
@Michael o Dwyer: Break out the Piz Buin!
We will never need shorts again by the looks of it.
Copy and paste from Met Eireann, complete plagiarism. The Journal needs real journalism.
@Áine G: really? So you missed the part at the top of the article where it literally says it’s quoting Met Eireann.
Jayzuzz wept.
@Áine G: so are journalists meant to be meterologists too?
It must be going to be dull as well, no yellow rain, red wind or orange thunderstorms!
Lower your expectations. Fairly normal summer here.
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