Réamhaisnéis Náisiúnta

Issued at: 09 January 2025 20:54

TONIGHT

Very cold tonight with widespread frost and ice or black ice. Most places will be dry early in the night with areas of dense fog or freezing fog. Cloud will build across the south and west overnight with rain developing in Munster, turning to sleet or snow on high ground. Lowest temperatures of -7 to -2 degrees in light to moderate easterly winds, fresher in the southwest.

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. Highest temperatures of 1 to 5 degrees generally but not as cold in the southwest with moderate to fresh east to southeast winds developing.

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.