{"id":209673,"date":"2025-12-25T03:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209673\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T03:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:47:10","slug":"no-white-christmas-but-conditions-are-expected-to-stay-dry-into-the-new-year-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209673\/","title":{"rendered":"No white Christmas, but conditions are expected to stay dry into the new year \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There will be no white Christmas, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/met-eireann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/met-eireann\/\">Met \u00c9ireann<\/a> is forecasting dry, bright and cold weather over the next few days and  into the new year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/christmas\/\">Christmas<\/a> Day will be dry and bright, though cloudier at times near eastern and southern coasts. Temperatures will reach a chilly daytime high of 4 to 7 degrees, but  it will feel colder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An added wind chill from moderate, occasionally fresh and gusty northeast winds will have an impact, especially along the eastern and southern coasts. Winds elsewhere will be light to moderate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Temperatures will drop to  of between  -3 and  2 degrees on Christmas night, with frost and icy patches forming on untreated surfaces, and some patches of mist and fog too. It won\u2019t be  as cold on the east coast, with lowest temperatures of between 3 and 6 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Friday, St Stephen\u2019s Day, it will again be dry and bright, with spells of winter sunshine. There may be some cloudy periods in parts of Leinster and Munster. Highest temperatures will be between 4 and 8  degrees, with  light to moderate northeasterly winds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Friday night will be colder but should remain dry. Lowest temperatures of -1  to 4 degrees  are forecast, though again, it will be less cold near the east coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The pattern continues this weekend, with a mix of dry, cloudy and sunny spells on Saturday and Sunday. Sunday will be slightly colder, with frost forming as night falls under clear skies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">High pressure will continue to dominate in the lead-up to new year, with the centre of the high pressure moving close to or over Ireland. That means winds will be lighter, but under clear skies, frost will be more widespread. The added hazard of fog and freezing fog could be slow to clear by day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be no white Christmas, but Met \u00c9ireann is forecasting dry, bright and cold weather over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,1191,43,40720,40,38,41,39,15950],"class_list":{"0":"post-209673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-met-eireann","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-snow","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-weather-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209673","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=209673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}