A yellow weather warning has been issued for Ireland tonight

A night for hot drinks and open fires.

Met Éireann have issued a yellow weather warning, the lowest and palest of the weather warnings.

The yellow level low temperature alert is in place from Saturday night at 9pm until Sunday at 11am. Met Éireann have also forecast icy stretches.

Rain showers are expected in coastal counties but it will be mainly dry elsewhere with calm conditions.

 “Sharp or severe frost” will be widespread across Ireland. There may also be dense fog patches in many areas, especially in the Midlands.

Thus making tonight a perfect night for trying out the Danish conspiracy of Hygge, that unpronounceable word which, even when explained phonetically (hue-gah), sounds an effort noise you make when moving mattresses around the house. Hygge is gleefully explained in all of those hundreds of explainer articles and coffee table books as being untranslatable from the Danish but it actually just seems to mean 'cosy'.

And so, to get Hygge, warm socks, warm drinks and cinnamon smelling snacks are all in order but in reality an Irished-up coffee might just be the thing to get us through this yellow yellow time.