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20th Nov 2018

Met Éireann say ‘hail and thunder’ will batter the country tonight

Olivia Hayes

There’s already a weather warnings in place.

Last night, Met Éireann confirmed that four counties are under a Status Yellow weather alert.

Dublin, Louth, Wicklow and Meath are in for heavy rainfall, but it seems like most of the country will see hail and thunder tonight.

The weather forecaster said that today we’ll see: “Feeling cold today with a brisk east or northeast wind. Scattered showers will affect parts of Leinster, Munster and east Ulster, these showers heavy and prolonged in places, especially towards evening.

“Much of Connacht and west Ulster will remain dry with bright spells and just a few isolated showers. Top temperatures will range 6 to 8 degrees in fresh and blustery east or northeast breezes.”

And this is what tonight is looking like: “Showers will continue to affect parts of Leinster, Munster and east Ulster overnight. Some of the showers will be heavy with hail and thunder and there is the risk of a little wet snow on mountains.

“Elsewhere, it will be largely dry with variable cloud cover. Minimum temperatures of 0 to plus 4 degrees with frost possible in areas sheltered from the brisk northeasterly wind.”

Safe to say we’ll be heading straight home to our sofas tonight!