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The rainfall forecast is direct model output from Numerical Weather Prediction models but is a guideline only. Rain refers to precipitation, which can be rain, sleet or snow. It forecasts how much rain will fall (in mm) hourly during the previous hour (accumulations), then in 3 hourly and finally 6 hourly accumulations up to 7 days. This service is based on data and products of the HARMONIE-AROME and the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) models.
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National Forecast
05 June 2026 05:05
Today
Today will bring an improvement to most places for a time, as it won't be as showery or as breezy as of late. There'll be some sunny spells too for a while, the best of these across the east and north and it'll stay dry generally in the east. However, there'll still be scattered showers, especially further west and north. Cloud will increase during the afternoon, and it'll become wet and breezy across Munster through the evening, with rain moving up from the south-west, heavy later in the south and southwest. The rain will edge into southern parts of Leinster and southern parts of Connacht too before nightfall. Cool for early summer with highest temperatures of 12 to 17 degrees, highest in the east, in a mostly moderate southerly wind, backing southeasterly later and increasing fresh and occasionally gusty in Munster and parts of south Leinster, stronger in some coastal parts.
Tonight
Rain will become widespread tonight and will become heavy in places too, particularly in the south. There'll be some mist and hill fog too. Becoming breezy with the rain, with east to southeast winds increasing moderate to fresh and occasionally gusty, strong at times in some coastal parts. Winds will decrease light to moderate cyclonic variable for a time in inlands parts of Munster, before increasing moderate to fresh and occasionally gusty west to northwesterly there later. Lowest temperatures of 8 to 12 degrees.
Tomorrow
A cloudy and wet start to Saturday for most, with further outbreaks of rain, heavy in places for a while, before easing. A clearance to mostly dry conditions with some bright or sunny spells will move into the southwest and west early in the morning, gradually extending elsewhere, with the last of the rain clearing from the east and northeast through the afternoon and early evening. Cloud will build again in the west in the evening, with more rain and drizzle moving in. Highest temperatures of 13 to 17 degrees in mostly light to moderate cyclonic variable winds, fresh for a time in the east, with fresh to strong westerly winds for a time in the morning in Munster, becoming westerly generally as the rain clears, mostly moderate into the afternoon, later backing southwesterly and freshening along the west coast.
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