WEATHER: Mixed weather this weekend for Leitrim

Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service is reporting that Connacht will have mixed weather this weekend with Saturday set to bright and breezy with sunny spells and scattered blustery showers, some heavy and possibly thundery in the morning.

Showers will ease during the afternoon, and it will be mostly dry by evening with highest temperatures of 7 to 10 degrees, and moderate to fresh and gusty northwesterly winds backing westerly and easing later in the day.

Saturday night will be largely dry and clear at first with just isolated showers with cloud building from the west with rain following into the northwest towards morning. Lowest temperatures will be 2 to 6 degrees with light to moderate southwesterly winds will strengthen towards morning.

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Sunday will see a wet and breezy morning as rain extends southeastwards along with fresh to strong and gusty southwest to west winds, reaching near gale force at times for western and northern coasts. The rain will be heavy at times, especially for the north and west, with some spot flooding possible. The rain will clear southwards during the afternoon as sunny spells follow along with some showers, mainly for the north and winds will moderate during the evening with highest temperatures of 9 to 13 degrees.

Sunday night will be largely dry and clear at first with just some showers in the north. Cloud will build from the west through the night. Lowest temperatures of 6 to 10 or 11 degrees, coolest in the northeast, in mostly moderate westerly winds.