A "jet stream" barreling towards Ireland is set to bring unsettled weather later this week.
Alan O'Reilly of Carlow Weather warned that the weather phenomenon will "fire up" storms in the Atlantic bringing a spell of wet and windy conditions around Thursday and Friday. Met Eireann added that a "rather unsettled and showery weather regime" was set to grip the country.
The national forecaster said: "Very windy conditions are possible at times. Mean air temperatures are forecast to be close to the October average, with some chilly night expected towards the end of the week.