Warm and dry weather to continue until Friday

Ireland’s weather will remain largely dry up to next Friday, when a return to more seasonal conditions with occasional rain mixed with drier intervals.

Isolated showers, some of which will be thundery, will affect southern and eastern counties during Tuesday, but widespread sunshine is expected for the next six days.

The shift to less settled conditions will be gradual, and overall anticipated rainfall totals as we head into the end of May are unlikely to dramatically reverse low reservoir levels and high soil moisture deficits that are inhibiting growth.

Temperatures will reach the low to mid-twenties up to and including Thursday but will gradually decrease from Friday through the weekend to the mid to high teens. Nights will be frost-free.

Winds will be generally light easterly up to Wednesday before shifting to light and variable. Winds will become moderate to fresh westerly by next weekend.

An Atlantic frontal system is expected to make inroads across Ireland during Friday, as high pressure—which has brought dry and warm conditions to Ireland since late April—weakens.

The end of the month into the first week of June will likely bring a mix of dry spells interspersed with occasional frontal systems, with slightly above-average temperatures and average rainfall amounts.

With high pressure building to the south, northwest, and northeast of Ireland, there are faint signals that a period of dry and settled weather will return for the second week of June.