Limerick Weather for Christmas Day
SHOWERS or longer spells of rain can be expected in most areas this Christmas Day with afternoon temperatures of 6 to 10 degrees in light to moderate southerly breezes.
The wind will veer northwesterly towards evening, introducing much colder conditions with the risk of icy surfaces. Showers could turn to sleet and snow over high ground in the evening.
Christmas night will be cold with a widespread frost, an possibly some ice developing under mostly clear skies, however there will be a few wintry showers about too
Lowest temperatures of minus 2 to plus 2 degrees, in light to moderate northwesterly winds, fresher near the coast.
NATIONAL OUTLOOK
St Stephen's Day will be cold and brighter with sunny spells and scattered showers, most frequent in western and northern coastal counties.
The showers early in the day may fall as sleet in some parts, or even snow at times on higher ground although they will tend to transition back to rain as the day progresses. Highest temperatures of 3 to 7 degrees.
While temperatures will drop back close to freezing once again on St Stephen's night, it will quickly warm up as cloud and rain spreads from the west becoming widespread by Tuesday morning.
Lowest temperatures of 0 to 5 degrees, coolest in the east early, but temperatures will rise considerably after midnight.