Today

Today will be a bright, blustery, showery day.

Many of the showers will be heavy and prolonged, especially in southwestern, western and northern areas.

Some local hail and thunder also.

Temperatures 6 to 9 degrees at best, and feeling colder in the fresh to strong and gusty West to Northwesterly winds, reaching gale force around Northern coasts this afternoon.

Tonight

Tonight showers will be confined to coastal parts of the West and North and a few may be wintry.

The wind will moderate and turning cold under clearing skies with frost forming, together with a risk of icy patches and lowest temperature of 0 to 3 degrees.