Met Eireann weather forecast for the weekend

According to the latest Met Eireann weather forecast, it will continue cold over the weekend with a sharp frost on Sunday night and it will turn cooler again next week with a spell of rain on Monday clearing to scattered wintry showers

Scattered heavy showers continuing early on Friday night, becoming largely confined to the southwest later. Rather cloudy with mist and fog. Under any clear periods, there'll be a touch of ground frost. Lowest temperatures 0 to 4 degrees.

Met Eireann states that mist and frost will slowly clear on Saturday morning. The day will be dry in many areas with a fair amount of cloud and some bright spells. Scattered showers will develop in coastal areas. Quite cold with highest temperatures of only 5 to 7 degrees generally, but 8 to 10 degrees in the southwest with light, variable breezes. Saturday night will start with just a few showers and light northwesterly breezes. Later in the night outbreaks of rain will push into Atlantic coastal counties and northwesterly breezes will increase moderate to fresh. Lowest temperatures will be around 1 to 6 degrees with patchy frost in the east and north. 

According to Met Eireann, there will be patchy rain on Sunday morning but this will clear eastwards to just isolated showers with good sunny spells developing. It will be a cool day with top temperatures of 5 to 8 degrees in a moderate northwesterly breeze. It will turn very cold on Sunday night under clear skies and just light variable breezes. Lowest temperatures will fall to between zero and minus 4 degrees with a widespread sharp frost. 

The national forecaster states that Monday will be cold day and frost will only slowly clear in the morning. Moderate southwesterly winds will freshen ahead of a band of rain pushing into western areas in the afternoon and quickly spreading eastwards during the evening. The rain will turn to sleet or snow in parts of the north as top temperatures reach only 3 or 4 degrees there and elsewhere afternoon temperatures will be just 5  to 7 degrees.