{"id":454788,"date":"2026-05-18T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454788\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:40:08","slug":"met-eireann-forecasts-temperatures-in-ireland-to-rise-into-the-20s-later-this-week-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454788\/","title":{"rendered":"Met \u00c9ireann forecasts temperatures in Ireland to rise into the 20s later this week \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/weather-ireland\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/weather-ireland\/\">Summer<\/a> is finally on the way, with the unseasonably cool weather set to be replaced by progressively warmer and sunnier conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/met-eireann\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/met-eireann\/\">It<\/a> has been a much cooler May than normal, with most places at least a degree below the long-term average. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">The cool, showery weather will continue for a few days yet. However, from Wednesday there will be a noticeably milder feel to the air. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">The winds will be from the southwest and will bring rising temperatures, not just to Ireland but to much of Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">Wednesday will see temperatures of up to 18 degrees and Thursday will be unsettled but warm, as will Friday, with temperature highs of 19 degrees, according to Met \u00c9ireann.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">It is likely to become drier and sunnier next weekend and warmer too, \u201cwith high pressure taking charge\u201d, the forecaster said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">Saturday will see dry weather with temperatures of between 15 and 20 degrees. Sunday will be even warmer, with highest temperatures of 19 to 23 degrees generally across the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free b-it-article-body__text--left\">The warmer, more settled weather is likely to last well into next week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer is finally on the way, with the unseasonably cool weather set to be replaced by progressively warmer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454789,"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":["post-454788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cork","tag-dublin","tag-headlines","tag-met-eireann","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weather-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454788","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=454788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}