Limerick Weather - Friday, December 16, 2022
FREEZING fog will gradually clear throughout the morning. It'll start mainly dry and bright with scattered wintry showers spreading from the west through the afternoon and evening. Still very cold with afternoon highs inland ranging from zero to three degrees, or a couple of degrees higher on the coast, in mostly light to moderate southwesterly winds.
NATIONAL OUTLOOK
After a cool start to the weekend, it will become much milder, wet and blustery by Sunday before gradually becoming cooler and somewhat more settled through the course of next week.
Not as bitterly cold tonight, but lowest temperatures will still dip to between minus three degrees to plus two degrees. Showery outbreaks of rain and sleet will continue in the west. Later in the night, outbreaks of rain and sleet will become more widespread with some turning to snow, especially over higher ground.
Tomorrow, outbreaks of mostly rain and sleet will continue, but will generally become confined to coastal counties in the afternoon as good sunny spells develop. Coldest across the northern half of the country with highest temperatures of one to three degrees, but rising up to four to eight degrees in the south in mostly light southerly breezes.
Coldest early in tomorrow night with lows of minus one degrees in the north to two degrees in the south. Turning much milder in the south later in the night as a band of rain pushes up from the south. As it meets the cooler air over the northern half of the country it may fall as sleet, or even snow over higher ground for a time before transitioning back to rain. Becoming blustery too as southeasterly winds freshen across the country.
The rain, preceded by some sleet, with snow on higher ground, will turn heavy at times as it pushes up across the country on Sunday morning. This will be followed by scattered showers from the south through the afternoon. While it will become milder everywhere, afternoon highs will range from 4 to 8 degrees in the north to 10 to 13 degrees further south as moderate to fresh southeasterly winds veer southerly and temperatures continue to rise in northern parts through the evening.
Remaining mild with showery outbreaks of rain on Sunday night while lowest temperatures will hold at a comparatively balmy eight to 12 degrees in moderate to fresh southerly breezes.
After a mild, damp and mostly cloudy start, cooler showery conditions will spread from the west along with some sunny spells. Afternoon highs will range from seven degrees in the northwest to 12 degrees in the southeast in mostly light southwesterly winds.
As we count down to Christmas Day, it looks to gradually get colder throughout.