{"id":290298,"date":"2026-02-10T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290298\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:58:07","slug":"cold-snap-expected-this-week-with-temperatures-dropping-to-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/290298\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold snap expected this week with temperatures dropping to -3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Icy conditions are expected later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures are forecast to dip below freezing with an arctic blast reported to be tracking towards Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Cold and crisp conditions are due on Friday and Saturday, with temperatures of -2 and -3 degrees forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday will be a dull day with rain and drizzle moving northeastwards across the country through the morning and afternoon, along with some mist and fog patches.<\/p>\n<p>Drier conditions will follow from the southwest for a time, ahead of scattered showers or further spells of rain. Highest temperatures of 6 to 12 degrees, mildest in the southwest, with light to moderate variable winds.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A dull day with rain &amp; drizzle moving NEwards across the country through the morning &amp; afternoon, along with some mist\/fog patches \ud83c\udf27\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Drier conditions will follow from the SW for a time, ahead of scattered showers\/further spells of rain.<\/p>\n<p>Highs of 6-12\u00b0C, mildest in the SW \ud83c\udf21\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vV6AUUcs0K\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/vV6AUUcs0K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Met \u00c9ireann (@MetEireann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetEireann\/status\/2021101862288523390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another generally dull day on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>More persistent outbreaks of rain and drizzle will become mostly confined to Ulster through the morning. Elsewhere will see scattered showers with some limited bright spells developing.<\/p>\n<p>Highest temperatures of 5 to 11 degrees, coolest in Ulster, with light to moderate southwesterly winds becoming light and variable through the day.<\/p>\n<p>Met \u00c9ireann said overall it will be generally dull and damp conditions for the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>A switch to a northerly airflow will lead to a brief cold snap with drier and brighter conditions towards the end of the week, before turning unsettled again over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday will be a generally dull and damp day, it will be mostly cloudy with outbreaks of rain and drizzle.<\/p>\n<p>Highest temperatures of 7 to 10 degrees over the southern half of the country, but just 3 to 6 degrees over the northern half. Moderate northerly winds will develop through the day.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night will start cloudy with outbreaks of rain and drizzle, and a clearance will develop from the north.<\/p>\n<p>Turning cold with frost and ice developing as temperatures drop to -3 to +1 degrees, but possibly remaining milder further south, depending on the timing of the clearance. Winds will be light to moderate and northerly.<\/p>\n<p>A bright, cold, and mostly dry day on Friday. A few showers, some of which could be wintry, will feed in from the north. Highest temperatures of just 3 to 6 degrees, with a light to moderate northerly breeze.<\/p>\n<p>Starting dry and very cold with frost and ice on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>However, wet and breezy conditions will spread across the country from the west through the second half of the day, with some wintry falls possible further north.<\/p>\n<p>Highest afternoon temperatures of 4 to 7 degrees, with light southerly winds increasing fresh to strong through the day.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Icy conditions are expected later this week. Temperatures are forecast to dip below freezing with an arctic blast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-290298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290298","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=290298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}