Réamhaisnéis limistear na farraige
Forecast valid from: 12:00, Friday 28 February 2025 until 12:00, Saturday 01 March 2025
Small Craft Warning
South to southwest winds will reach force 6 or higher today and tonight (Friday) on Irish coasts from Valentia to Erris Head to Malin Head and on coasts from Loop Head to Rossan Point to Fair Head for a time overnight (early Saturday).
Gale Warning
Nil
Atlantic Swell
Heavy Swell increasing on western and northwestern coasts overnight and also on southwestern coasts Saturday morning.
Meteorological Situation at 09:00 UTC
Ireland lies between an anticyclone of 1030hPa centred over southwest England and a depression of 954hPa centred just off the southeast coast of Greenland. A south to southwest airflow will strengthen over the country today as a cold front associated with the depression approaches from the northwest.
Small Craft Warning: In effect
Heavy Swell (>4m) : yes
Forecast for Irish coastal waters from Valentia to Erris Head to Malin Head.
Wind: South to southwest force 5 or 6, imminent increasing force 5 to 7. Later veering northerly and decreasing force 3 to 5.
Weather: Fair to cloudy with isolated showers at first. Cloudy soon with outbreaks of rain and drizzle. Rain clearing to fine by the end of the period.
Visibility: Mostly good at first. Reducing moderate or poor in precipitation later.
Forecast for Irish coastal waters from Malin Head to Wicklow Head to Valentia and for the Irish Sea
Wind: Mainly south to southwest force 3 to 5, but variable force 2 or less in eastern parts of the Irish Sea. Soon becoming southwest force 3 to 5 and occasionally reaching force 6 between Malin Head and Fair Head. Decreasing southwest or variable force 2 to 4 by the end of the period.
Weather: Fine or Fair today with isolated showers, mainly in the south and southeast. Fair to cloudy later with patchy rain and drizzle.
Visibility: Mostly good, outside of isolated showers today. Reducing moderate in precipitation later.
Outlook for a further 24 hours until 12:00, Sunday 02 March 2025
Mainly light to moderate anticyclonic variable winds for the rest of Saturday. Southwesterly winds developing and gradually increasing fresh to strong in western and northern sea areas overnight and Sunday morning. Weather; Fine or Fair in the northwest on Saturday. Cloudy to Fair elsewhere with isolated showers. Becoming mainly fair everywhere later, but with mist and fog patches.
Forecast issued at: 12:00, Friday 28 February 2025
All times are local unless specified
