{"id":208605,"date":"2025-12-24T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208605\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:20:08","slug":"ireland-weather-bright-dry-and-cold-christmas-day-in-store-with-clear-skies-for-santa-claus-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208605\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland weather: Bright, dry and cold Christmas Day in store with clear skies for Santa Claus tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Met \u00c9ireann has said conditions are perfect for Santa Claus and his reindeer this Christmas Eve<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_GettyImages-1196181051.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas morning swim ireland\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>It&#8217;s an Irish Christmas tradition to jump into the Irish Sea Christmas morning(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">There will be clear skies for <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/news\/irish-news\/norad-santa-tracker-2025-watch-36451769\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Santa Link opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Santa <\/a>and his reindeer tonight as the country is set for a chilly but dry and bright <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/news\/irish-news\/norad-santa-tracker-2025-watch-36451769\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Christmas Day.Link opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Christmas Day.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">While temperatures won\u2019t be cold enough for a white <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/news\/irish-news\/norad-santa-tracker-2025-watch-36451769\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"ChristmasLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Christmas<\/a>, tomorrow will be noticeably cooler than recent days with highs of 4C to 7C. Those venturing outside for the festivities will need to wrap up as Met \u00c9ireann says it will feel even colder than this, especially along eastern and southern coasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">But it\u2019s set to be a bright winter day with sunny spells for most of the country. While it will be cloudier at times near eastern and southern coasts, forecasts indicate it will be a largely dry day across the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/news\/irish-news\/norad-santa-tracker-2025-watch-36451769\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Christmas Link opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Christmas <\/a>night will be bitter, with lowest temperatures of -3C to 2C, with frost and icy patches forming on untreated surfaces. However, it will be slightly warmer near the east coast with lowest temperatures of 3C to 6C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Tonight will also be cold, with lowest temperatures of -2C to 2C, but conditions are perfect for the big man to deliver toys to children across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/news\/irish-news\/norad-santa-tracker-2025-watch-36451769\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"national forecasterLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">national forecaster<\/a> said: \u201cMostly clear skies for Santa and his reindeer tonight, Christmas Eve, with just patchy cloud near some eastern and southern coasts. Cold, with frost and icy patches forming on untreated surfaces, in a mostly light east to northeast or variable breeze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cLess cold and mostly frost free along the east coast though, with lowest temperatures there of around 1C to 5C in a mostly moderate east to northeast breeze.\u201d St Stephen\u2019s Day will be another bright day with plenty of spells of winter sunshine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">There may be some cloudy periods in the east and south, with highest temperatures of 4C to 8C. It will remain dry in the night time but cold, with temperatures dropping to between -1C and 4C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Winds will be light to moderate north easterly, fresher in eastern and southern coastal parts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=39e53cb8-b266-4e33-8d00-e9f7a38f420c&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Sign up here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Met \u00c9ireann has said conditions are perfect for Santa Claus and his reindeer this Christmas EveIt&#8217;s an Irish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9484,61,60,43,767],"class_list":["post-208605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-christmas","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208605","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=208605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}