{"id":461158,"date":"2026-05-22T03:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461158\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:52:11","slug":"summers-here-weekend-of-sunny-spells-and-highs-of-21-degrees-due-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461158\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer&#8217;s here! Weekend of sunny spells and highs of 21 degrees due in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer might have finally arrived in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/section\/2249\/news-ireland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ireland<\/a> as weekend temperatures are set to reach up to 20 degrees in parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Met \u00c9ireann is forecasting sunshine for both Saturday and Sunday, with the wet weather due to clear by early Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow (Friday) will start mild and cloudy with patches of mist and drizzle expected throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>Some hazy sunny spells will slowly start to develop as rain moves to the east of the country throughout the afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures on Friday will reach up to 19 degrees, with some moderate breezes.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/news\/ireland\/2085779\/protest-outside-leinster-house-after-death-of-yves-sakila.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Protest outside Leinster House after death of Yves Sakila<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any lingering showers will die out early on Friday night with a dry and cloudy night following,&#8221; the Met \u00c9ireann website states.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday will begin dry and warm, and will remain that way for the day, with temperatures reaching up to 21 degrees in parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Coastal areas will be slightly cooler, with temperatures still expected to hit the 17-degree mark.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday will be much the same, however cloud will start to build in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures will be higher though, with them expected to be in the 18 to 22 degree range.<\/p>\n<p>There will be some light breezes too.<\/p>\n<p>The settled, sunny spells look as though they will continue into next week, continuing to warm the country.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer might have finally arrived in Ireland as weekend temperatures are set to reach up to 20 degrees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,1191,43,767],"class_list":["post-461158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-met-eireann","tag-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461158","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=461158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}