National Forecast

Issued at: 26 September 2024 21:45

TONIGHT

Rain will continue to gradually clear southwards tonight, followed by clear spells and a few scattered showers. Fresh to strong and gusty northerly winds with the rain, will gradually moderate too. Lowest temperatures of 4 to 7 degrees.

TOMORROW - Friday 27th September

Friday will be cool and breezy with sunny spells and scattered showers. Highest temperatures of 10 to 13 degrees in a moderate to fresh northerly wind, backing northwest later and easing a bit.

National Outlook

Overview: Rather mix weather over the next few days and quite cold too for this time of year.

Friday Night: Rather cool with a fresh northerly breeze. Quite cloudy too with a few showers drifting down over the country but it should stay mostly dry across the southern half of the country. Lowest temperatures of 2 to 6 degrees

Saturday: A mostly dry day then with scattered cloud and good sunny spells at times too especially in the south and east. A few isolated showers will develop over Connacht and Ulster at times. Westerly winds will fall light later in the day with highest temperatures of 10 to 13 degrees.

Sunday: Cloud will thicken early in the day with outbreaks of rain developing across parts of the southwest too. More persistent rain will move over from the west later in the morning as southerly winds increase fresh to strong and gusty. Winds will increase to very strong at times along the west coast later in the afternoon with some heavy falls of rain spreading throughout the country. Highest temperatures of 12 to 15 degrees.

Monday: Looking ahead current models indicate another very unsettled day with heavy rain at times and very strong and gusty winds throughout. Temperatures likely to be in the mid-teens.