Weather warnings have been issued for eight counties for Friday.<\/p>\n
Cork, Kerry and Waterford will be under a status yellow rain warning from 9am until 9pm on Friday.<\/p>\n
A status yellow wind warning will be in place for Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo from 12pm until 9pm on Friday.<\/p>\n
Met \u00c9ireann has said that there will be spells of heavy rain in the south of the country, with potential impacts including localised flooding and difficult travelling conditions.<\/p>\n
In the north west, strong and gusty south to southeast winds are expected, with potential impacts including difficult travelling conditions and some fallen trees and branches.<\/p>\n
Nationally, Friday is expected to be a wet and windy day with gales in coastal areas.<\/p>\n
Rain is forecast to be widespread with some heavy and squally bursts possible, especially in the late afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n
Highest temperatures of 6 to 11 degrees are forecast with fresh to strong and gusty southerly winds.<\/p>\n
The rain will clear eastwards overnight and will be followed by scattered showers of rain or sleet and some clear spells, with winds easing too.<\/p>\n
Lowest temperatures of 1 to 5 degrees are expected, with fresh to strong and gusty south to southwest winds, decreasing moderate to fresh.<\/p>\n
Saturday is forecast to be windy again, with fresh to strong and gusty south to southwest winds and gales on coasts.<\/p>\n
A crisp and sunny start in the east is expected to give way to scattered blustery showers spreading from the west.<\/p>\n
Some of the showers will be heavy with a chance of hail and thunder, and a few could also be wintry over high ground in the west early on. Highest temperatures of 7 to 11 degrees are forecast.<\/p>\n
On Saturday night, however, blustery weather is anticipated, with scattered showers, clear spells, and lowest temperatures of 4 to 7 degrees with fresh and gusty south to southwest winds.<\/p>\n
Sunday is expected to be another breezy and blustery day, with a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers. Some of the showers are forecast to be heavy, and there is a chance of hail.<\/p>\n
Highest temperatures of 9 to 12 degrees can be expected on Sunday with a moderate to fresh and gusty southwest to west breeze.<\/p>\n
Winds should ease on Sunday night, with showers clearing from most areas, but lowest temperatures of 0 to 4 degrees with light to moderate south to southwest winds are forecast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weather warnings have been issued for eight counties for Friday. Cork, Kerry and Waterford will be under a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-390024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390024","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=390024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}