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The warm and dry spell will gradually come to an end this week as temperatures and rainfall totals return to the seasonal average.

Saturday will start dry and sunny, but clouds will build from the west in the late morning with light rain or drizzle developing there by early evening. Feeling cooler than lately with top temperatures of 12 to 17°C.

Light rain and drizzle will clear eastwards overnight as temperatures drop to 2°C to 7°C, mildest in coastal locations.

Sunday will start bright, but scattered, heavy showers will push into the west as the day progresses. Some of the showers could be thundery and prolonged. It will feel colder in a gentle west-southwest wind, turning moderate to fresh later. A cool day with highs of 9 to 12°C.

Monday will bring further scattered heavy showers, most frequent in the west, with some more prolonged rain by evening in the northwest. It will be less showery further east, where there will be spells of sunshine. Temperatures will range from 10 to 13°C. Winds will initially be moderate southwesterly until late afternoon before strengthening to fresh south-southwesterly by evening. It will be even windier in the northwest with strong SSW gusts.

Winds will gradually turn to light northwesterly on Tuesday, which will be drier than the previous day with sunny spells and occasional light showers. It may stay overcast in eastern counties for much of the day. Feeling cool with daily maximums of 9 to 11°C.

Frost is likely in sheltered inland locations on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights.

Wednesday and Thursday will bring a mix of showers and sunny spells, with western and northwestern regions seeing the highest precipitation amounts.

More widespread rain is expected on Good Friday with a return to showers and sunny spells for the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend. Temperatures will be close to the seasonal average, in the range of 10 to 13°C.

There is a growing signal for drier and more settled conditions becoming established for the final week of April as high pressure builds close to or over Ireland.

A positive indication of a return to more settled weather is seen in the air pressure output from the GFS ensembles, indicating that high pressure will be build over or close to Ireland as we move through next week and into the following week.

Typical April weather will take hold over the coming 7–10 days with a mix of sunshine, scattered showers, and more prolonged outbreaks of rain at times.

Daytime temperatures will be close to the seasonal average of 9–12°C, while temperatures will drop close to freezing in many places at night, ranging from 0–5°C.

Overall rainfall amounts will be above average, with the highest totals (30–35 mm) in the Atlantic coastal counties of the west and northwest, as well as in the eastern and northeastern coastal counties.

Winds will generally be gentle to moderate westerly until midweek, before shifting to light southerly on Thursday and moderate to fresh easterly for a time on Friday.

Details:

Outbreaks of rain in eastern Leinster will slowly clear on Monday afternoon. Scattered showers, some of which will be thundery, will continue to feed in from the west but will become more isolated as the evening progresses.

Showers will retreat to the west coast on Monday night, leaving a largely dry night with frost forming under clear skies. It will remain slightly cloudier in northeast Ulster and Leinster.

Showers will be well scattered on Tuesday, leaving a largely dry day with the best sunshine in the western half of Ireland, particularly along the north coast.

A widespread frost will form in many areas on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.

Wednesday will begin dry everywhere, but a frontal system tracking over the Irish Sea may bring some rain for a time in the northeast.

By late afternoon, scattered outbreaks of rain will extend from the south and push north. It will be heaviest in the west and south but patchier elsewhere with lower rainfall totals.

Scattered outbreaks of rain will continue in the northwest during the first half of Thursday and will be followed by scattered heavy showers through the remainder of the day.

A frontal system may bring a period of heavy rain to the southeast on Friday morning, followed by scattered heavy showers pushing across Ireland from the west.

Showery conditions interspersed with sunny spells are expected through the Easter weekend.

It will remain cool by day (8–12°C), with an ongoing risk of overnight frost.

High pressure will build to the north of Ireland during the following week, eventually introducing drier, warmer, and more settled conditions as we enter the final week of April.

There will be a west-to-east split in weather conditions over the next two days as heavy rain in eastern and northeastern counties contrasts with largely sunny and dry conditions further west.

Apart from some scattered showers, Munster, the South Midlands, and parts of Connacht will stay largely dry until Thursday evening.

Temperatures here will range from 11 to 13°C with some overnight frosts in sheltered inland locations.

East Leinster and Ulster will bear the brunt of the heavy rainfall over the next 48 hours as an occluded front spreads north along Ireland’s eastern seaboard from Tuesday night into Wednesday.

A Status Yellow Rainfall warning has been issued for Northern Ireland. The UK Met Office is warning of persistent, and at times heavy, rain bringing some disruption to travel and potential for local flooding.

There is a risk of sleet and wet snow on high ground before the system clears Ulster’s north coast on Wednesday evening, with settling snow likely over parts of the Wicklow/Dublin Mountains.

Temperatures in eastern and northern counties will struggle to rise above 7°C during Wednesday.

After a frosty, dry, and sunny start to Thursday, it will begin to cloud over from the southwest as a warm front approaches.

Scattered outbreaks of rain will push into southern and southwestern counties around nightfall and will slowly extend to the rest of Ireland on Thursday night and during Good Friday.

The system will introduce milder temperatures in the range of 11 to 14°C on Friday.

The remnants of the system will be slow to clear some places during Saturday morning, particularly in parts of the northwest.

Good dry spells are expected to develop in most other locations during the day.

Temperatures will once again drop to between 9 and 11°C as winds swing east to northeast.

Largely dry, overcast and cool conditions will persist through Easter Sunday.

An Atlantic system approaching from the west may bring some rain for a time on Monday before clearing to scattered showers.

The remainder of next week will bring a mix of sunshine and scattered showers carried on a cool north-to-northeast wind as a large area of high pressure builds to the northwest of Ireland.

Its quite rare that Cork gets a sustained nice(ish) couple of days while warning level amounts of rain fall in Dublin. They are having a bad time of it up there.

Could see Wicklow going orange yet, nearly at red level in the highest areas with some of those totals. Met Eireann's ensembles showing strong orange level probability.

River dodder running high already.

With the ground reaching saturation point in many places, some spot flooding is possible in places on Thursday night into Friday. Rainfall totals could exceed 30mm in parts of Connacht and south Munster.

Rain has already pushed into the southwest and will progress further inland as the day progresses. It will stay dry further east until nightfall. The last of the rain will clear the northeast and east late on Friday, with a clearance following behind.