Weather experts have warned that a system developing in the Atlantic could bring Ireland's first storm of the season in the middle of next week.
Weather Alerts Ireland said on Facebook on Thursday that for the first time in a long time that there is a "risk of a storm. They said: "Lots of the models forecasting this storm to impact Ireland next Tuesday into Wednesday.
"From this mornings models the ECMWF, UKMO and the ICON model are in some agreement that the system will impact Ireland. A very interesting weekend of forecasts coming up! A chance of the first storm of the season being named.... in April," they added.