National Forecast

Issued at: 26 April 2024 19:09

TODAY - Friday 26th April

A few isolated showers and some late evening sunshine with light northerly breezes.

TONIGHT

Showers will die away early on tonight with long clear spells following. Cold with lowest temperatures of -1 to 3 degrees and a touch of frost. Patches of mist and fog may form in light northerly breezes.

TOMORROW - Saturday 27th April

Saturday will be a cool day with sunny spells. It will start off mainly dry apart from isolated showers in the east and northwest. Through the day those showers will become more scattered, feeding in over the country, in a light to moderate northeasterly breeze. Highest temperatures of 9 to 12 degrees, mildest in the west.

National Outlook

Overview: The final days of April will remain cool and unsettled with showers or rain at times.

Saturday night: Any showers dying out and becoming mainly dry and chilly on Saturday night with clear spells in a light northwest or variable breeze. Lowest temperatures of -1 to +3 degrees with some grass frost forming where its coolest in the north.

Sunday: Sunny spells and scattered showers feeding in from the west through the day. Cloud will build from the Atlantic towards evening. Fairly cool again with highest temperatures of 9 to 12 degrees with light northwest to west winds.

Sunday night: Scattered showers easing for time with cloud continuing to increase from the Atlantic overnight. Outbreaks of rain developing in the west and spreading eastwards overnight. Some locally heavy falls on higher ground in the west and southwest. Light to moderate winds backing southerly with lowest air temperatures of 3 to 7 degrees. Occasional mist.

Monday: A wet and cloudy day Monday. Widespread outbreaks of rain, heavy at times, will spread across the whole country through the morning. Showers will follow the clearance in the west through the evening. Highest temperatures of 9 to 12 degrees. Mainly moderate southerly winds will ease light and veer westerly following the clearance of the rain.

Monday night: Rain will clear eastwards through the night but will linger on eastern coasts. Scattered showers elsewhere with some clearer spells. Mist and fog patches possible also. Lowest air temperatures of 3 to 7 degrees. Light southerly winds.

Tuesday: Current indications suggest another wet day Tuesday with further spells of rain, heavy at times in the south. Highest temperatures of 9 to 13 degrees with light to moderate west to southwest winds.

Overview: Continuing unsettled through the week but turning milder.