Gardeners beware as frost is likely in places during the coming week.
Daytime temperatures will remain around average for the time of year at 7-10c.
Overnight temperatures will drop close to or below freezing in locations sheltered from the prevailing westerly breeze, which will turn northerly later Wednesday into Thursday.
Rainfall totals will be highest on the Atlantic seaboard but totals overall will be below average.
Up to Friday morning, inland parts of east Ulster, east Connacht and the northern half of Leinster may only see trace amounts (1-2mm).
For farmers, there will be a slight improvement in drying conditions with all well-drained soils currently saturated and poorly drained soils waterlogged.
The latest weather model output suggests mixed signals about what next weekend's weather may bring. Using 1.00pm on Saturday (the first day of the meteorological spring) as a timestamp, some of the main models indicate a high pressure influence while others favour Atlantic zonal conditions.
The consensus would be for a continuation of the coming week's weather which will bring largely dry conditions to the eastern half of Ireland with any rainfall to the western half.
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