Today

Today will be an increasingly windy day with a mix of sunshine and showers.

The showers will be most frequent over Munster and south Leinster this morning, but they will become widespread this afternoon, and a few of them will be heavy with a risk of thunder.

Light to moderate westerly breezes will veer northwesterly and freshen through the day, becoming strong and gusty along western and southern coasts.

Cool, with highs of 14 to 17 degrees.

Tonight

Blustery showers will continue through tonight, heaviest and most prevalent in the west and north of the country with the best of any clearer, drier interludes in the east and southeast.

Lows of 8 to 11 degrees Celsius in fresh and gusty west to northwest winds, reducing moderate inland.