Today

Some sunny spells this afternoon but mostly cloudy with further heavy showers and some thundery downpours with surface flooding.

Cold and windy with temperatures of 6 to 9 degrees.

Tonight

Clear spells and scattered showers at first tonight.

Heavy rain will spread from the Atlantic overnight and it will become very windy again by morning.

Overnight lows of 4 to 8 degrees.

Weather warnings

Wind Warning for Ireland (status orange)

Southwesterly winds veering westerly will reach mean speeds of 60 to 80 km/h with gusts of 100 to 130km/h.

Rainfall Warning for Donegal, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Clare and Kerry (status yellow)

Rainfall accumulations of 25-50 mm are likely over the weekend. Valid until 3pm Sunday

Met Éireann forecaster Evelyn Cusack says conditions will get worse overnight: