There will be some dry and sunny spells, but they’re not going to last.
The ‘four seasons in a day’ climate that regularly affects Ireland will once again be in evidence over what is going to be a pretty changeable weekend on the weather front.
After
issuing a nationwide weather warning on Thursday night, Met Éireann have forecast widespread showers throughout the country on Good Friday, some of which will be very heavy, with hail and isolated thunderstorms in places.
While snow isn’t likely to fall in the quantities that had been mentioned in long-term forecasts last week, it will be very cold, with lowest temperatures of -1 on Friday night and -3 on Saturday night and some frost and ice to go along with it.
Despite the risk of scattered showers, however, Saturday will see plenty of “dry, bright weather”, although the sun is likely to be hidden behind clouds for most of the day.
The sun will come out for “much of the day” on Easter Sunday, which will have a very frosty start after the cold weather on Saturday night. Later in the day, conditions will take a turn when cloud and rain in Munster starts to spread throughout the country on Sunday afternoon.
Wet and breezy weather will affect most of the country on Sunday night and there is a threat of “wintry falls” on Sunday night and Monday when ominous sounding “organised bands of heavy blustery rain” will be thrown up by a nearby area of low pressure.
Scattered heavy showers, with the risk of hail and thunder locally, have been forecast for the first few days of next week, when it will be cooler than usual for this time of year.
It seems like it's been cooler than usual for this time of year for all of 2018 so far; it doesn't look like we're going to get a respite anytime soon either.
