Weekly weather: mild, breezy with frequent outbreaks of rain
A return to milder weather this week, with the forecast over the next seven days looking blustery with frequent outbreaks of rain.
Today it will continue cloudy and breezy with rain and drizzle. Highest temperatures of 7 to 10 degrees, in moderate to fresh and gusty southwest to west winds.
Tonight will see rain turn widespread and heavy at times. It will clear later on towards morning, allowing for frost and ice to form by morning in some places. Temperatures elsewhere will generally remain unchanged through the night.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, will see further outbreaks of rain. Afternoon temperatures of just 3 to 5 degrees in the north and east and around 9 or 10 degrees elsewhere. Generally light easterly winds over the north and east with moderate west to southwest winds elsewhere.
Rain will continue for Tuesday night. Coldest over the northeastern half of the country with lowest temperatures of 2 to 4 degrees there. Temperatures will be generally unchanged from the daytime elsewhere at around 9 degrees.
It will be mostly cloudy on Wednesday with rain clearing away to the northeast through the morning followed by scattered showers, most frequent in the west with limited bright spells. Highest temperatures of 10 or 11 degrees in moderate southwesterly breezes.
Wednesday night will become mostly dry with showers dying out. Lowest temperatures of 6 or 7 degrees in mostly moderate westerly breezes.
Thursday will be a mostly dry day with good spells of sunshine and just some patchy drizzle on southern coastal counties. Highest temperatures of 7 to 9 degrees in light northwesterly breezes.
Frost will return on Thursday night under clear skies with light winds, lowest temperatures at the moment look like between -1 and +1 degrees. Light winds will become southerly by morning with some mist and fog patches forming.
Cloudy but mostly dry on Friday, patches of light rain or drizzle may affect Atlantic coastal counties. Afternoon temperatures of 5 to 7 degrees in light to moderate southerly winds, freshening on Atlantic coasts later.