WEEKEND FORECAST: Wet and windy weather in store for Kilkenny as freeze thaws
After some snowfall and plummeting temperatures, it will get milder in Kilkenny over the weekend but conditions will be unsettled with wet and windy weather forecast over the coming days.
Any lingering frost or ice will clear this morning, with cold, dry and sunny spells forecast. Met Éireann said: “It will stay dry and bright in many areas, but cloud will increase in the west and northwest, bringing patches of drizzle. A milder day with afternoon temperatures of 7 to 10 degrees, and mostly light to moderate breezes.”
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy and breezy with patchy drizzle in southern and western areas and highest temperatures of 8 to 10 degrees.
The rain will clear from the northeast and east on Sunday morning, leaving dry and bright weather. But Met Éireann warned: “Cloud will build in from the west during the afternoon and evening. Highest temperatures of 8 to 11 degrees with light to moderate westerly winds gradually backing southerly and increasing fresh to strong in the evening.”
The rain may be slow to clear from the south and east on Monday, but it will become drier and sunnier elsewhere, with just a few showers in the northwest, witgh highest temperatures of 9 to 11 degrees.