Today

A cold and frosty start this morning with icy stretches on untreated surfaces and lying snow in places.

Today there will be a mix of sunshine and scattered wintry showers, the showers frequent over the western half of the country with a risk of hail and thunder there.

Highest temperatures of 4 to 7 degrees in fresh and gusty westerly winds, strong along Atlantic coasts.

Tonight

Scattered showers will continue tonight, mainly of rain but turning wintry in parts of the north and west and on high ground.

The showers will ease towards dawn.

Lows of between 0 and +2 degrees in the eastern half of the country early in the night with some frost patches but temperatures increasing to between 2 to 5 degrees by morning countrywide.

Westerly winds will be mostly moderate.

National warnings

A status yellow snow-ice warning is in place for Ireland.

Met Éireann has warned of hazardous conditions in places due to compacted snow and ice.

Further snow showers also, heaviest in the southwest, west and north.

The alert is in place until midday.