weather<\/a>, as Met Eireann says: “Continuing cold into early next week, with plenty of dry weather, though there will be wintry showers or outbreaks of rain at times.”<\/p>\nSee the full forecast below.<\/p>\n
Today – Wednesday 31st December<\/p>\n
Cloudy and sunny spells on New Year’s Eve, with frost and any fog in the northern half of the country clearing through the morning.<\/p>\n
It looks to be generally dry for much of the day, but with the chance of a little drizzle near the south coast and with some showers moving into northern coastal parts this evening.<\/p>\n
Met Eireann forecasts highest temperatures of 3 to 6 degrees, with mostly light variable breezes, gradually becoming westerly and increasing moderate in the north towards evening.<\/p>\n
Temperatures will drop into the night, with lowest temperatures of -2 to +2 degrees with frost and icy stretches developing. Light to moderate westerly winds will increase fresh at times along northern and northwestern coasts.<\/p>\n
On X, Alan O ‘Reilly of @CarlowWeather shared an image of a model indicating windchill, and wrote: “Ringing in the new year outdoors? You will want to wrap up with that windchill!”<\/p>\n
Thursday 1st January<\/p>\n
Cloud and any patchy light rain in the southern half of the country will clear southwards early tomorrow morning, leaving a largely dry New Year’s Day with good sunny spells.<\/p>\n
Well scattered showers will mainly affect northern coastal areas.<\/p>\n
Highest temperatures of 4 to 8 degrees, with light to moderate northwesterly winds, fresher near northern and northwestern coasts.<\/p>\n
Friday<\/p>\n
A day of good sunny spells, with some showers of sleet and snow possible, mainly in the north.<\/p>\n
Highest temperatures of 3 to 7 degrees in light to moderate northwesterly winds, fresher near coasts.<\/p>\n
Friday night will be mostly dry and clear with some wintry showers, mainly affecting the north and northwest.<\/p>\n
Lowest temperatures of -2 to +2 degrees in light to moderate northwesterly winds.<\/p>\n
Weekend<\/p>\n
Temperatures will drop on Saturay and Sunday, and looks to be very cold and mostly dry with wintry showers, mainly in parts of the north and northwest.<\/p>\n
Highest daytime temperatures will be just 2 to 5 degrees in light to moderate northwesterly winds, with lowest night-time temperatures of -3 to +1 degrees with sharp frosts and ice developing.<\/p>\n
The sharp cold will continue into early next week, with plenty of dry weather, though there will be wintry showers or outbreaks of rain at times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland is set to experience some ‘sharp to severe’ frosts in the coming days, and as people around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,1191,43,767],"class_list":["post-221081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-met-eireann","tag-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221081","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=221081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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General scenes of frost at Botanic Gardens Dublin, 2014(Image: www.collinsphotos.com)<\/p>\n