{"id":221806,"date":"2026-01-01T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/221806\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:39:07","slug":"cold-weather-to-continue-with-3-degrees-forecast-for-weekend-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/221806\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold weather to continue with -3 degrees forecast for weekend \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A spell of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/weather-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/weather-ireland\/\">colder weather<\/a> during the coming days is set to bring overnight frosts and icy roads, according to <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>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Some sleet and snow is expected in parts of Ulster and north Connacht but much of the country will experience periods of clear, bright winter sunshine during the day with temperatures potentially dropping below zero at night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">People are warned to be aware of the potential for some difficult travelling conditions on roads, particularly in the mornings with Met \u00c9ireann suggesting extra time should be allowed for journeys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt is now increasingly likely that a very cold, Arctic air mass will move across Ireland over the coming days,\u201d says meteorologist Matthew Martin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe are expecting very cold and frosty nights, particularly over the weekend, with a chance of some wintry showers. At present, these showers are most likely to affect northern counties, while many southern areas can expect plenty of crisp winter sunshine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Thursday some rain showers are expected but these should generally clear over the day giving way to brighter, drier weather in most parts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Some further patches of rain are expected to spread from the north overnight, with the south of the country to be impacted over Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Temperatures are expected to range from -1 to +3 degrees with some frost and icy roads likely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Friday is expected to be generally bright and cold but some showers will again spread from the north with some snow and sleet possible. In Dublin the highest temperatures are likely to be 4 or 5 degrees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The pattern will remain much the same into the weekend although temperatures are likely to fall to -3 degrees in some areas over Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Lingering frost is expected on Sunday when temperatures are not expected to climb above 5 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Monday and the rest of next week is forecast to remain cold and largely dry although with some showers continuing to drift in from the north. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A small craft warning is in place this evening for much of the northwestern, northern and eastern seaboard with winds of force 6 expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spell of colder weather during the coming days is set to bring overnight frosts and icy roads,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221807,"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-221806","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\/221806","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=221806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}