Weekend Weather Shift: Rain and cooler air incoming
The warm and sunny conditions will be replaced later in the weekend by more typical April weather, with cooler temperatures and increased rainfall.
Temperatures will progressively drop from highs of 16 to 20°C on Friday to 10 to 13°C by Sunday.
It will remain dry everywhere until Saturday evening, at which point some light rain or showers will push into Atlantic coastal counties.
Sunday will be largely dry, apart from some well-scattered showers feeding in from the Atlantic.
Showers will be heavier and more frequent during Monday and may merge to give longer spells of rain in the west and northwest.
Later on Tuesday and through the remainder of the working week, successive low-pressure systems will push up from the south and southwest to bring outbreaks of rain, which will be heavy at times.
Overall rainfall totals will be above average next week, with temperatures of 10 to 12°C matching the seasonal average.
Unsettled conditions will continue through Good Friday.
There is a signal for less unsettled conditions to develop during the Easter Bank Holiday weekend as a ridge of high pressure builds nearby.
It will likely remain cool, however.
High pressure is favoured to return and dominate weather conditions during the final week of April, resulting in lower-than-average precipitation amounts and slightly higher-than-average temperatures.
