{"id":358129,"date":"2026-03-21T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358129\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:38:09","slug":"sunshine-and-dry-spells-this-weekend-but-unsettled-conditions-ahead-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358129\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine and dry spells this weekend but unsettled conditions ahead \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The sunshine and clear blue skies will dominate this weekend, but <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> forecasts cloud, wind and rain to return. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Long spells of hazy sunshine meant temperatures of up to 16 degrees were experienced across Ireland on Saturday. Sunday will begin cloudier, with some rain and drizzle, but this will clear to give way to sunshine for most parts through the morning and afternoon and similar temperatures to Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">However, Met \u00c9ireann said that it will turn \u201cmore unsettled next week\u201d and temperatures will drop. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Monday will remain a largely dry day, apart from the odd spot of drizzle, but it\u2019ll become increasingly cloudy with some light rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">By Tuesday, the rain will become heavy at times, with widespread showers, some of hail. Temperatures will range between 6 and 12 degrees at the beginning of the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">But on Tuesday evening, temperatures will drop to between 1 to 4 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Wednesday temperatures will be between 7 to 9 degrees, but it will feel colder with the added wind chill from fresh to strong and gusty northwest winds. Met \u00c9ireann said that these would reach \u201cnear gale to gale force in western coastal parts\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The rest of the week looks increasingly unsettled with further spells of rain or showers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sunshine and clear blue skies will dominate this weekend, but Met \u00c9ireann forecasts cloud, wind and rain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24138,6285,61,60,43,1650,1519],"class_list":["post-358129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-diplomacy","tag-horizontal","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358129","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=358129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}