Cold start to Friday, February 4, 2022 for Leitrim and surrounding counties

Today, Friday, February 4 will be a cold, bright and blustery day with a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers. Some of the showers will be heavy and of hail, with sleet for a time. Highs of 5 to 7 Celsius, but feeling much colder in moderate to fresh and gusty westerly winds, which will be strong at times near windward coasts.

TONIGHT

Cold with a scattering of showers early on, mainly in western and northern parts, some still wintry in the north, but the showers will soon die away. Lowest temperatures of 0 to 4 degrees early in the night with winds generally easing and with some frost and ice forming away from western and northwestern coastal area. It will become less cold from the west overnight as cloud increases from the west and with southwest winds freshening a little. Outbreaks of rain and drizzle will move into northern and western parts of Ulster later in the night.