{"id":219347,"date":"2025-12-31T05:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219347\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T05:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:32:16","slug":"met-eireann-forecasts-possibility-of-snow-as-temperatures-drop-across-ireland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219347\/","title":{"rendered":"Met \u00c9ireann forecasts possibility of snow as temperatures drop across Ireland \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Temperatures are due to drop in Ireland this week, with frost and ice overnight in places and a chance of snow early in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/new-year\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/new-year\/\">New Year<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><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> said plenty of dry weather was due over the coming days with just some light showers at times along with the possibility of snow on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Wednesday, New Year\u2019s Eve, is due to be dry with a mix of cloud and sunny spells. The cloud will give way to longer sunny spells as the day goes on with highest temperatures of 5 to 7 degrees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It will be cloudy early in the night with some light rain sinking southwards. Clear spells and showers will follow from the north. Lowest temperatures will be between -2 to 3 degrees with frost and icy stretches developing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Thursday, New Year\u2019s Day, will see cloud and patchy light rain in Munster and south Leinster slowly clear southwards through the day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Elsewhere, there will be sunshine and scattered showers, most frequent for northern coastal areas. Highest temperatures will be between 5 to 9 degrees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Thursday night will be mostly dry with clear spells and just a few wintry showers, with lowest temperatures of -1 to 4 degrees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Friday will see sunny spells and showers with some falls of sleet and snow possible. Highest temperatures will be between 2 to 6 degrees generally in light to moderate northwesterly winds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The forecaster said Saturday and Sunday would be very cold and mostly dry, though some wintry showers will occur, mainly in the north and northwest. Daytime highs will reach just one to 5 degrees with sharp frosts and ice developing during the nights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Met \u00c9ireann said it will continue to be cold coming into early next week but there will be \u201cplenty of dry weather\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Temperatures are due to drop in Ireland this week, with frost and ice overnight in places and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,1191,62931,43],"class_list":["post-219347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-met-eireann","tag-new-year","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219347","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=219347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}