Latest Rainfall Radar showing live precipitation and the last 90 minutes precipitation over Ireland, updated every 5 minutes. Precipitation can be rain, hail or snow. Accumulations can refer to rainfall only.
Lightning strikes, when they occur, are displayed as a cross. Initially, they are red but change to orange and then yellow after a period, then disappear © Met Office ATDNet.
Ground Clutter may appear (South Co. Dublin), bright bands and spokes may also be present in images. They are artefacts (false echoes) of rainfall radar systems and should be ignored. Further information on Radar here
Met Éireann forecasters manually produce the weather icons for midday and midnight to reflect the predicted major weather type for these times.
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.
The wind is direct model output from Numerical Weather Prediction models but is a guideline only. It forecasts the strength of the wind (in knots and km/h) at 10m for the top of each hour, in hourly, then 3 hourly and finally 6 hourly intervals up to 7 days. The wind arrow tip points in the direction the wind is blowing and the tail length indicates wind strength. However, in the text forecast below, it is described as where it is blowing from. This service is based on data and products of the HARMONIE-AROME and the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) models.
The temperature is direct model output from Numerical Weather Prediction models but is a guideline only. It forecasts air temperature on land and over sea in °C for the top of each hour, 3 hourly and finally 6 hourly intervals up to 7 days. Minus zero (-0) indicates values between 0 to -0.5°C. This service is based on data and products of the HARMONIE-AROME and the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) models.
The Mean Sea Level Pressure (MSLP) is direct model output from Numerical Weather Prediction models but is a guideline only. It forecasts the MSLP in hecto Pascals (hPa) for the top of that hour initially in 3 hourly intervals, then 6 hourly. This service is based on data and products of the HARMONIE-AROME and the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) models.
National Forecast
15 October 2026 05:00
Today
A cloudy wet start across much of Munster, Leinster and east Ulster, with some heavy rain. However, a clearance to mainly dry conditions in the west and northwest, will gradually move southeastwards through the morning and afternoon, with sunny spells developing. Some scattered showers will follow too, later in the afternoon and evening, mainly in the north and west, a few heavy further north. Highest temperatures of 12 to 16 degrees. A little breezy at first this morning in parts of the east and south, with moderate to fresh and occasionally gusty south to southwest winds, but light to moderate mainly westerly winds elsewhere will soon extend to all areas, though winds will become a little fresher at times in coastal parts of the northwest.
Tonight
Tonight will bring a mix of clear spells and showers, the showers mostly affecting western and northern counties, some of them heavy, with the slight chance of thunder in the north. Cooler than recent nights, with lowest temperatures of 3 to 8 degrees in mostly light to moderate southwest to west or variable breezes, fresh westerly in western and northwestern coastal parts.
Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Friday, will bring plenty of sunshine and scattered showers for a time too. The showers will be most widespread in the morning, especially across the north and west, where some will be heavy, with the slight chance of thunder at first in the north. During the afternoon, the showers will be more isolated and mainly confined to parts of Ulster and Leinster, before dying away later. Cooler than recently with highest temperatures of 11 to 14 degrees, with winds becoming mostly moderate northwesterly through the morning and increasing fresh for a time in western and northern coastal parts, but generally easing light to moderate again in the evening.
Met News
02nd October 2026
Provisionally second warmest September on record for Ireland
September 2026 was provisionally the second warmes... more
25th September 2026
Met Éireann marks 90 years by looking to the future of meteorology and climate science
Met Éireann’s 90th Anniversary Conference broug... more
03rd September 2026
Climate Statement for Summer 2026
Hottest summer on record for Ireland. Sunny and dr... more
