Icy start to Tuesday, March 14 for Leitrim and surrounding areas

It will be an icy start in parts. Cold and rather breezy too with sunny spells and showers. The showers will be most frequent in the morning and afternoon and many of these will be wintry with the chance of hail and thunder. Highest temperatures of just 6 to 8 degrees with an added wind chill, owing to moderate to fresh and gusty northwesterly winds.

TONIGHT: Frost and ice will set in quickly after dark under clear skies and easing winds. Cold with lowest temperatures of -3 to 0 degrees.