It's hard to believe it looking at today's grey skies and deluges from the heavens, but this weekend is set to be a beauty.

Temperatures up to 20 degrees are expected later in the week, but today we saw very strong winds along the west coast and heavy rainfall in the south.

Alan O'Reilly of Carlow Weather explains why we had such a wet start to the week, but there's good news for the long Easter weekend.