{"id":187776,"date":"2025-12-12T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187776\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:37:10","slug":"met-eireann-forecasts-heavy-rain-spot-flooding-and-cold-nights-over-the-weekend-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187776\/","title":{"rendered":"Met \u00c9ireann forecasts heavy rain, spot flooding and cold nights over the weekend \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There is more unsettled weather on the way this weekend, according to forecaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/met-eireann\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/met-eireann\/\">Met \u00c9ireann<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Friday will be mainly dry apart from showers on Atlantic coasts which will spread further eastward throughout the day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The showers will become largely confined to the northwest by this evening. Highest temperatures will range from 6 to 10 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Scattered showers will continue to affect Atlantic coastal counties on Friday night. Most places will be dry overnight but cloud will build in the west, leading to patchy drizzle arriving in some coastal areas by the morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Temperatures will drop to 1 to 5 degrees overnight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Saturday morning is expected to be dry and breezy with brighter weather in the south and east. Rain and drizzle will spread over Ulster and Connacht during the morning with some heavy showers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The rain will gradually spread south-eastwards across the rest of the country through Saturday afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Temperatures will reach 8 to 12 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2025\/12\/10\/storm-bram-8000-homes-farms-and-businesses-still-without-power\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New wind warning issued for three of the counties worst affected by Storm BramOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Saturday night is due to be rather wet and windy with widespread rain, heaviest in Atlantic coastal counties. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sunday morning will also be wet and windy with widespread outbreaks of rain, but drier weather is expected by the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Rain will be heaviest and most persistent in Munster and south Leinster with spot flooding possible. Temperatures will reach 11 to 13 degrees in the day, dropping to 6 to 9 degrees overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Looking to next week, Met \u00c9ireann said there will be \u201ca continuation of unsettled weather\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is more unsettled weather on the way this weekend, according to forecaster Met \u00c9ireann. Friday will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,1191,43],"class_list":["post-187776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-met-eireann","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}