Today

Cloudy and cool today with rain in places, persistent and locally heavy at first in parts of Munster and south Connacht but more scattered elsewhere with good dry periods developing especially inland.

Highest temperatures 6 to 9 degrees.

Winds will become mostly light and variable inland during the day, but will be fresh along some coasts.

Tonight

Cool, cloudy and misty tonight with some further outbreaks of rain and drizzle, persistent in some western and southern areas.

Some drier, clearer periods will develop later in some northern and eastern areas resulting in patchy fog and possibly local frost forming. Overnight lows of 1 to 5 degrees.