Temperatures to hit 20 degrees today amid sunny spells

Weather Update from Met Éireann

Any lingering mist will clear this morning with sunny spells in most areas. It will become cloudier across the western half of the country through the day, with patchy light rain or drizzle developing. However, it will stay dry in the east with sunny spells turning hazy at times. Highest temperatures of 14 to 20 degrees, coolest under cloudier skies in the west and southwest, in light to moderate southerly winds.

It will become cloudier tonight and scattered outbreaks of rain will develop, turning persistent and heavier in the west and northwest later. It will turn breezy overnight as light to moderate southerly winds increase moderate to fresh, occasionally strong. Mild with lowest temperatures of 9 to 12 degrees.

TOMORROW - MONDAY 9TH MAY

Rain in the west and northwest will spread across the rest of the country during the morning and early afternoon, turning heavy at times. The rain will clear from most areas by evening, but may linger in the southeast, and will be followed by sunny spells and scattered showers. Some of the showers will be heavy, particularly in the northwest later. It will be breezy with a moderate to fresh southerly wind, occasionally strong. Highest temperatures of 13 to 17 degrees.

NATIONAL OUTLOOK

MONDAY NIGHT: Clear spells and scattered showers, with any rain clearing from the southeast early in the night. Southwesterly winds will be mostly light to moderate but will become fresh at times in the northwest. Lowest temperatures of 7 to 10 degrees.

TUESDAY: Tuesday will be breezy with sunny spells and scattered blustery showers. During the evening, the showers will become isolated, and cloud will increase across the northwest. Highest temperatures of 11 to 16 degrees, mildest in the southeast, in a fresh and gusty southwesterly wind.

TUESDAY NIGHT: A band of showery rain will move into the northwest early on Tuesday night and will be heavy at times, but will break up as the night goes on. Elsewhere dry with clear spells, but rain may move into southern coastal areas by morning. Lowest temperatures of 6 to 10 degrees with moderate to fresh southwesterly winds becoming light overnight.

WEDNESDAY: Some uncertainty, but at present it looks like rain will affect southern areas on Wednesday, with sunny spells and isolated showers further north. Highest temperatures of 11 to 16 degrees with light southwest to west winds becoming northwesterly.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Dry with clear spells, but becoming cloudier in the west later. Colder than recent nights with lowest temperatures of 4 to 7 degrees. Light west to northwest winds becoming southwesterly later.

THURSDAY: A cloudy day with well scattered outbreaks of light rain and light to moderate southwesterly breezes. Feeling cooler with highs of 11 to 13 degrees.

FURTHER OUTLOOK: Continuing a little unsettled for Friday, but possibly settling down and becoming milder again for the weekend.