Things are heating up

After a cool start maximum afternoon temperatures will range 16 to 19 degrees in light, variable breezes.

Dry and bright with some sunny spells even is being forecast for much of the day today.

There will be a partial build-up of cloud during the day and perhaps a few well-scattered showers, but these will turn mostly clear and sunny again by evening.

“Mainly dry today with sunny spells, some cloudier periods too with a few passing showers, these chiefly in the north of the province,” says national weather service Met Eireann.

Highest temperatures of 15 to 18 degrees, but a degree or two cooler near western and northwestern coasts. Winds will be light to moderate, northwesterly.

Dry and mostly clear then overnight also with lowest temperatures of 7 to 10 degrees.