National Forecast
Issued at: 09 January 2025 10:32
TODAY - Thursday 9th January
Very cold with frost and ice lingering. Most places will be dry with sunny spells but there will be scattered showers in the north and west, some of sleet or snow. Highest temperatures of 0 to 4 degrees with light, variable winds.
TONIGHT
Very cold with widespread frost and ice or black ice. Most places will be dry early in the night, apart from a few wintry showers in the northwest. Cloud will increase across the southwest overnight and rain will develop in Munster, turning to sleet or snow on high ground. Moderate to fresh easterly winds will develop in the southwest, but otherwise winds will be light so patches of freezing fog will develop. Lowest temperatures of -7 to -2 degrees.
TOMORROW - Friday 10th January
Very cold across most of the country tomorrow morning, with widespread frost and ice or black ice. Cloud and rain in the southwest will slowly move northeast across the country through the day, turning to sleet or snow on high ground. It will stay dry in Ulster and northeast Leinster however. Highest temperatures of 1 to 5 degrees generally but not as cold in the southwest. Moderate to fresh east to southeast winds will develop.
National Outlook
Friday Night: Quite an overcast night with outbreaks of rain and drizzle. Perhaps not as cold as previous nights either with lowest temperatures of 0 to 4 degrees with light winds.
Saturday: Staying rather cloudy with outbreaks of rain and drizzle gradually clearing away to the north. Some isolated bright or sunny spells will develop and it should stay dry through the afternoon. Light southerly breezes and highs of 4 to 8 degrees.
Saturday Night: A cloudy night overall but mostly dry too. Some patchy drizzle about western coasts but it will be a milder night than previously too. Lowest temperatures of 2 to 6 degrees with light southerly breezes. Some mist and fog patches will form overnight, quite dense in the southwest for a time.
Sunday: Another rather overcast day with freshening southerly breeze. Rain will gradually develop along western counties during the afternoon but it should hold dry across much of the country through to the evening. Highest temperatures of 8 to 11 degrees.
Next Week: Current indications are for high pressure to develop to the southeast of the country but a few frontal systems will clip western and northern counties too. Overall rather mixed with cloud and drizzle along Atlantic coastal fringes but drier and perhaps sunnier in the southeast.
Temperature circle (°C): maximum and minimum temperature forecast for each day. Wind symbol (km/h): arrow points in the direction the wind is blowing. The weather and wind icons: for the time of maximum temperature and minimum temperature.