TODAY

Today will be cloudy with patchy outbreaks of rain and drizzle through the morning and early afternoon.

In the early evening in the southwest, the rain will turn heavier and more persistent and this will spread to all areas through the rest of the day.

Highest temperatures will range between 12C and 14C in moderate to fresh southeast wind; decreasing light to moderate later.

TONIGHT

Tonight will continue cloudy with the rain clearing from the south and the drier weather steadily spreading east and north.

Lowest temperatures will range between 8C in the north to no lower than 12C in the south.

The southeast winds will be generally moderate, occasionally fresh, becoming light variable for a time for most of the country but fresh to strong westerly through Munster.

Information supplied by Met Éireann