{"id":292837,"date":"2026-02-11T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/292837\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:00:22","slug":"temperatures-to-plunge-to-3c-as-cold-snap-grips-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/292837\/","title":{"rendered":"Temperatures to plunge to -3C as cold snap grips Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A sharp drop in temperatures is set to bring a wintry feel across the country from Thursday, with forecasters warning of freezing nights and widespread frost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After relatively mild conditions, it will turn dramatically colder as northerly winds take hold, dragging temperatures down significantly. Night-time lows are expected to fall to -3C from Thursday night into Friday morning, marking the beginning of a brief but intense cold snap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;font-size: 18px;line-height: 22px;padding-left: 10px;padding-right: 10px;\">Check out the Irish Examiner&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/weather\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WEATHER CENTRE<\/a> for regularly updated short and long range forecasts wherever you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sharp drop in temperatures is set to bring a wintry feel across the country from Thursday, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,767],"class_list":{"0":"post-292837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292837","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=292837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}