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Kim oLeary

Dublin weather: Met Eireann forecasts heavy rain and temperatures to plummet to -2C overnight

It's set to be a wet weekend ahead with heavy showers at times and temperatures to plunge overnight, with the unsettled conditions to continue into next week.

Met Eireann has warned that temperatures will drop as low as -2 degrees tonight.

Today will see "showery outbreaks" which will gradually become more isolated by afternoon with long sunny intervals developing.

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Highest temperatures of 7 to 9 degrees, in mostly moderate northerly breezes.

Tonight will be "very cold" and largely dry with long clear spells.

"Lowest temperatures of -2 to +1 degrees with frost developing along with mist and fog in places as winds fall light and variable."

Sunday morning will start "dry and bright with sunny spells", but cloudy or overcasts conditions will extend from the northwest during the afternoon followed by outbreaks of rain towards evening.

Highest temperatures of 10 to 12 degrees in moderate to occasionally fresh westerly winds.

Sunday night

"A cloudy night with outbreaks of rain and drizzle, rain heaviest and most persistent in northern and northwestern counties. Not as cold as recent nights, with lowest temperatures of 6 to 8 degrees in moderate westerly winds."

Monday

"A dull day with scattered outbreaks of rain or drizzle, most persistent in the north and west. Highest temperatures of 9 to 13 degrees and breezier with moderate to fresh westerly winds.

Meanwhile, forecasters say that temperatures will be returning to average next week with blustery, cloudy or overcast conditions and rain or drizzle expected in the early days of next week, brightening up a little by midweek, but still remaining unsettled and wet at times.

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