Weather: dry to start today - showers later

TODAY – FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25

Overall dry to begin. Fresh and breezy today with good sunny spells and well scattered heavy showers – most of the showers will present this afternoon across the northern half of Leinster.

Feeling cool, with highest temperatures ranging 11 to 13 degrees Celsius, in brisk northwest winds, easing down as of mid-afternoon.

TONIGHT

Holding predominantly dry with clear spells.

Some mist or fog patches inland later in near calm.

Turning cold with lowest temperatures ranging 0 to 5 degrees Celsius; with some grass frost.

TOMORROW – SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26

Any mist or frost will clear early Saturday to leave a dry day with spells of autumn sunshine.

Fresh in northerly breezes with highest temperatures ranging 12 to 14 degrees Celsius.

NATIONAL OUTLOOK

OUTLOOK: Changeable into the early days of next with more unsettled weather following as of midweek.

SATURDAY NIGHT

Dry, calm, cold and mostly clear with lowest temperatures ranging a chilly -2 to +2 degrees Celsius.

Some frost will set in, along with mist and fog patches.

SUNDAY

Cold and crisp to begin with frost and any mist/fog clearing.

Staying dry across most areas for daylight hours with spells of autumn sunshine and light southerly breezes.

However, cloud will build across west and southwest counties into the afternoon with some rain moving into Atlantic counties in the late evening or early night.

Highest temperatures will range 13 to 17 degrees Celsius, coolest across the north and east.

SUNDAY NIGHT

Scattered outbreaks of rain and drizzle will move in across Ireland overnight.

Some mist and fog in parts too, in mostly moderate southerly breezes. Lowest temperatures 5 to 12 degrees Celsius, coldest across the north and east.

MONDAY

Damp or wet to begin with any lingering overnight rain soon clearing eastwards. Brightening up into the afternoon with sunny spells and just well scattered showers – mainly along west and northwest coasts. Highest temperatures will range a fairly seasonal 14 to 17 degrees Celsius, in mostly moderate westerly breezes. A mostly dry night is expected to follow; fairly chilly though with overnight lows of 3 to 9 degrees Celsius.

TUESDAY

Early indications suggest Tuesday will bring mostly dry weather for the morning and afternoon with sunny spells and isolated showers.

However, southerly winds will freshen during the evening with wet and windy weather arriving into the western half of the country later in the evening.

Highest temperatures 14 to 16 degrees Celsius. Wet and rather windy weather will extend countrywide overnight.

Source: met.ie