The weather is set to heat up this week with highs of 26C hitting some counties in the coming days.
Dublin will experience sizzling heat tomorrow and Friday with temperatures reaching 25 degrees in the capital. Other counties that look set to enjoy the hot weather include Carlow, Kilkenny and Meath.
While Leinster and Munster in particular look set to be affected by the mini heatwave, the weather will quickly subside to showers over the course of the weekend.
Met Eireann confirmed in a statement that a soar in temperatures will occur nationwide in the coming days.
“It will be warm and mostly dry with some bright or hazy sunny spells elsewhere, while highest temperatures will reach 18 to 21 degrees in light to moderate southerly winds,” Met Eireann said on their website.
Meteorologists have also warned hay fever sufferers that the pollen count will be very high over the next few days and that symptoms could worsen due to the warm weather.
While the weekend will be cooler and feature scattered showers, high temperatures are set to bounce back early next week with highs of the low 20’s.
Joanna Donnelly has added that the weather won't be all that great for some areas, the forecaster said: ""The heat has been moving up through Spain and Portugal to France and it will head further north over the next few days, probably impacting the southeast of England significantly over the weekend.
"We are faced with uncertainty over the next few days. We are on the border between very cold air coming down from the northwest from the Arctic and this heat coming up from the south.
"The two of those are extremes, so extreme heat and quite cold weather. Ireland is in prime position in the north of the Atlantic and is right on the border for those two. With those extremes comes extreme uncertainty.
"We don’t know how far south the cold air will get, we don’t know how long the warm air is going to last or proceed up northwards the country.
"At the moment it looks like Friday will be right on that border. We’ll have heat in the southeast of the country and temperatures possibly getting up to 26 degrees.
"That cold air is coming down and with cold air means warm air rises and it turns into cloud and we get rain."
