Easter Monday brings mix of cloud and sunny spells
There was extensive cloud cover across Ulster, but brighter spells further south when the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite passed over Ireland on Easter Monday.
The satellite captured a mixture of cloud and sunny spells across Cork City; Connemara, The Aran Islands, Galway City and The Burren; and counties Kildare, Offaly and Laois.
Despite the sunshine, temperatures remained close to the average for the time of year.
Casement in Dublin, Mullingar in Westmeath, Oak Park in Carlow, and Roches Point in Cork recorded the maximum temperature at 14.8 °C.
A mix of sunny spells and showers with longer spells of rain at times will dominate Ireland’s weather for the coming week.
Atlantic systems will become squeezed between two areas of high pressure to the north and south of Ireland bringing widespread rain on Tuesday and again through Thursday night into Friday morning.
High pressure looks set to become more dominant during next week, however, as drier conditions return following an unsettled second half to April.
Tuesday’s rainfall will taper off overnight to leave a largely dry day on Wednesday with some scattered showers.
