Met Éireann forecasts end of bitterly cold weather as they issue another warning for extreme cold and severe frost

Met Éireann is forecasting when the current cold snap that has gripped Ireland since Sunday will end but has also issued more warning for extreme cold and severe frost for tonight. 

According to the latest Met Eireann weather forecast, the majority of Ireland is in for extremely cold temperatures as low as -7 degrees again tonight with severe frost and ice. Temperatures will get above freezing in places on Friday but only reaching highs of 5 degrees. 

The cold snap looks set to end on Saturday with Met Eireann forecasting temperatures between 4 and 8 degrees and those temperatures will increase to between 8 and 11 degrees on Sunday. 

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Ahead of the expected end of the cold snap, Met Eireann has issued a new Status Orange Low Temperature/Ice warning for Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Galway, Leitrim, Roscommon, and Tipperary from 7pm this evening until 8am on Friday. 

Met Eireann is warning that it will be extremely cold with widespread severe frost and ice, along with lying snow in some areas. Patches of freezing fog also.

There is also a Status Yellow - Low Temperature/Ice warning for Ireland that remains in place until noon on Friday. 

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The Met Eireann forecast for the coming days says that tonight will beery cold with widespread frost and ice or black ice. Most places will be dry early in the night, apart from a few wintry showers in the northwest. Cloud will increase across the southwest overnight and rain will develop in Munster, turning to sleet or snow on high ground. Moderate to fresh easterly winds will develop in the southwest, but otherwise winds will be light so patches of freezing fog will develop. Lowest temperatures of -7 to -2 degrees.

According to the latest Met Eireann weather forecast, it will be very cold across most of the country tomorrow morning, with widespread frost and ice or black ice. Cloud and rain in the southwest will slowly move northeast across the country through the day, turning to sleet or snow on high ground. It will stay dry in Ulster and northeast Leinster however. Highest temperatures of 1 to 5 degrees generally but not as cold in the southwest. Moderate to fresh east to southeast winds will develop.

Friday night will be quite overcast with outbreaks of rain and drizzle and perhaps not as cold as previous nights either with lowest temperatures of 0 to 4 degrees with light winds.

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According to the latest Met Eireann weather forecast, it will stay rather cloudy on Saturday with outbreaks of rain and drizzle gradually clearing away to the north. Some isolated bright or sunny spells will develop and it should stay dry through the afternoon. Light southerly breezes and highs of 4 to 8 degrees.

Saturday night will be a cloudy night overall but mostly dry too. Some patchy drizzle about western coasts but it will be a milder night than previously too. Lowest temperatures of 2 to 6 degrees with light southerly breezes. Some mist and fog patches will form overnight, quite dense in the southwest for a time.

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According to the latest Met Eireann weather forecast, Sunday will be another rather overcast day with freshening southerly breeze. Rain will gradually develop along western counties during the afternoon but it should hold dry across much of the country through to the evening. Highest temperatures of 8 to 11 degrees.

According to the latest Met Eireann weather forecast, current indications are for high pressure to develop to the southeast of the country next week but a few frontal systems will clip western and northern counties too. Overall rather mixed with cloud and drizzle along Atlantic coastal fringes but drier and perhaps sunnier in the southeast.