Met Eireann forecast major change in weather this week with hail, sleet and snow forecast

According to the latest Met Eireann weather forecast for Ireland hail, sleet and hill snow  are all likely later this week with the weather in Ireland set to take another bitter wintry turn. 

According to Met Eireann, the weather will be unsettled for much of the week before a colder air mass hits the country on Thursday bringing a drop in temperature and wintry showers from Thursday through the weekend. 

Met Eireann is also warning that an added wind chill factor from gusty westerly winds will make it feel even colder. 

According to the latest Met Eireann weather forecast for Ireland, it will be mainly dry and bright today with long sunny spells. Any isolated light showers in the north and northwest will clear by this afternoon. Highest temperatures of 7 to 9 degrees in a light to moderate northerly breeze, increasing fresh at times in the south. Winds will back westerly and ease by this evening.

Mostly dry and clear at first tonight with light southwest breezes. Some frost will set in with lows of -1 to 4 degrees. Later in the night, increasing cloud will bring rain, drizzle and mist to the west and north with a rise in temperatures.

According to Met Eireann, Tuesday will start out damp and misty with outbreaks of rain and drizzle extending southeastwards over the country during the morning. A clearance to sunny spells and just well scattered showers will quickly follow from the northwest by early afternoon. Highs of 7 to 11 degrees with light to moderate southwest winds veering mostly moderate northwest with the clearance.

Mostly dry and clear with light southwest breezes on Tuesday night but some frost will set in with lows of 0 to 4 degrees. Some mist patches too, and later in the night increasing cloud will bring some patchy rain to the far west and southwest.

Bright spells to begin in parts of the east and north on Wednesday however, outbreaks of rain and drizzle, in the west and southwest, will extend countrywide through the morning and afternoon. Overall, turning dull with hill, mist and coastal fog. Humid with highs of 9 to 11 degrees, in moderate to fresh south to southwesterly winds.

Wet and rather blustery on Wednesday night with spot flooding in places and moderate or fresh and gusty west to southwest winds, stronger near the coast. Lowest temperatures of 2 to 6 degrees as the rain clears into the Irish Sea by morning.

According to the latest Met Eireann weather forecast for Ireland, Thursday will be cooler day as a change of airmass sets in. The last of any overnight cloud or rain will give way to sunny spells and blustery showers, some turning wintry with some hail. Some sleet over high ground too. Highs of 5 to 8 degrees with an added wind chill factor owing to fresh and gusty westerly winds.

Through Thursday night and Friday, the weather will be cold and wintry with widespread squally showers feeding in due to brisk northwesterly winds, some hail, sleet and hill snow likely. There will be an on-going wind-chill factor.

According to Met Eireann, it will remain cold and unsettled over the weekend, though not as windy. Some good sunshine with frost setting in by night. Wintry showers in places too, but not quite as widespread. Daytime temperatures of 6 to 8 degrees.