{"id":216248,"date":"2025-12-29T12:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/216248\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:06:07","slug":"frosty-new-years-eve-in-store-as-cold-spell-of-weather-forecast-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/216248\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Frosty\u2019 New Year\u2019s Eve in store as cold spell of weather forecast \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/weather-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/weather-ireland\/\">\u201cfrosty\u201d New Year\u2019s Eve<\/a> has been forecast by <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> as conditions are expected to become very cold from next weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">This week will remain largely settled with mostly dry and cloudier conditions, though some \u201cwintry precipitation\u201d is possible in the first week of 2026, the forecaster said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Daytime highs of 3 to 7 degrees are expected on Monday, which is set to be mostly cloudy and dry, with the exception of a few isolated patches of light rain and drizzle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Lowest temperatures will dip to between -2 and 2 degrees in the north and west of the country, where frost is expected on Monday night. It will be less cold elsewhere with lowest temperatures of 2 to 6 degrees forecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cloudy conditions will continue on Tuesday morning, though bright or sunny spells are expected to develop throughout the day in parts of the north and west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Highest temperatures of 3 to 8 degrees are forecast before falling to lows of -3 to 1 degrees on Tuesday night, with freezing fog expected to develop in some areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">New Year\u2019s Eve will start out \u201cfrosty\u201d, Met \u00c9ireann said, with fog and freezing fog slow to clear. Sunny spells are expected to develop throughout the day, which will remain dry but \u201cchilly\u201d amid temperatures of 2 to 6 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Atlantic coasts will experience outbreaks of rain and drizzle that night, with drier spells expected elsewhere. Lowest temperatures of -2 to 3 degrees are expected as many ring in the new year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Thursday will be a cloudy start to 2026 with patchy outbreaks of rain and drizzle spreading from the north. However, New Year\u2019s Day will be \u201cslightly milder than late\u201d with highs of 5 to 8 degrees forecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As conditions are set to turn \u201ccolder again\u201d into the first week of January, showers could spread north at times, with the potential for some \u201cwintry precipitation\u201d, the forecaster said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cCurrent signals indicate temperatures dropping further, and conditions becoming very cold,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u201cfrosty\u201d New Year\u2019s Eve has been forecast by Met \u00c9ireann as conditions are expected to become very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,615,42,1191,43,40,38,41,39,15950],"class_list":{"0":"post-216248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cork","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-met-eireann","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories","17":"tag-weather-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216248","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=216248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}