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Today will be a cold, windy day. A lot of dry weather in the western half of the country, with just the odd rain shower. But showers will be more frequent further east, with some hail this morning and with any wet snow confined to high ground over Leinster. But later today and especially this evening, showers will turn more readily to snow in eastern areas, even at lower levels and some accumulations of snow are likely. Top afternoon temperatures just 2 or 3 C., in eastern areas and 5 to 7 C., in Atlantic coastal counties, but blustery easterly winds will add a significant wind chill.

Cold and windy overnight with frost, ice and some snow. Mainly dry in Atlantic coastal counties, but snow showers at times elsewhere. These heaviest and most frequent over east Leinster, with some heavy falls of snow in places before the night is over and some drifting. Lowest temperatures zero to -3 C., and feeling colder in the stiff east to northeasterly wind.

Valentia Observatory awarded WMO Centennial Observing Station status

Valentia Observatory was recently recognised as a Centennial Observing Station by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) to celebrate the fact that over 100 years of high-quality continuous meteorological measurements have been recorded at the Observatory.

The record for minimum air temperature was broken at bouy M6 (200 miles off the west coast) and the new maximum individual wave was recorded at bouy M2 in the Irish Sea.

Be Winter Ready, find relevant information on https://www.winterready.ie/en

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