Met Éireann Forecasts Hail, Thunder And Cold Nights But There’s Light At The End Of The Tunnel

People would have been forgiven for thinking that the snow-ice warning issued by Met Éireann yesterday was an April Fool’s joke given that it’s, ya know, April.

However, it was all legit with some parts of the country waking up to a dollop of the white stuff today. It all makes for a fairly ropey start to the fourth month of the year but thankfully things are set to pick up in time for the weekend.

Before that though, it seems that we’re going to have to put up with some APOCALYPTIC conditions over the next few days. Well, a bit of hail and thunder but that still sounds pretty rough.

Met Éireann is forecasting, quite ominously it has to be said, that ‘the cold and showery regime will continue for a time,’ with the temperature on Wednesday night set to plummet to minus one at the end of another cold day.

Thursday will bring ‘heavy showers with a risk of hail and thunder’ and will be ‘another very cold day for April with highest temperatures of just five to eight degrees.’

It seems that the light at the end of the tunnel will arrive on Friday but not without outbreaks of rain, particularly in Munster.

Finally, current indications suggest that the weekend will ‘turn drier and somewhat less cold over the weekend as the air-flow becomes easterly.’

We’ll take your word for it, lads. A more detailed forecast for the week can be found here.

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