Storm Emma, Beast from the East, Status Red.

Regardless of the terminology, the severe weather forecast for this week has well and truly arrived and it's likely to get much worse. The highest possible weather alert was issued by Met Éireann this morning for Dublin, Wicklow, Meath, Louth and Kildare. Although it's snowing steadily right now, further showers are expected today and overnight with the national forecaster predicting a total snowfall of 25cm by midday tomorrow. The rest of the country could well follow suit with conditions expected to worsen over the next few hours.

Latest Warnings from Met Éireannhttps://t.co/X6NncUghZ9
Further warnings for Thursday & Friday will be issued by Met Éireann later this morning. pic.twitter.com/pbeK6MJXde

— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) February 28, 2018

Total side note but tomorrow marks the beginning of March and whoever thought we'd be snowed in for the start of spring? Here's what you can expect on the weather front over the next couple of days. Today: "snow showers, freezing temperatures and gusty easterly winds". Tonight: "further snow showers continuing with snow accumulating on the ground. A severe frost with lowest temperatures of -3 to -7 degrees". Thursday: Snow showers on Thursday morning which may develop into "blizzard conditions" for Munster and Leinster as the day progresses. Freezing daytime temperatures and again, strong easterly winds will continue. Snow to continue Thursday night. Friday: Snow should clear from southern counties during the day but could persist across the north. Strong winds east and northeast and "widespread frost" likely overnight.

Here's the last few snow showers that passed over our station at Roches Point. pic.twitter.com/ygfIfwvtGv

— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) February 28, 2018

You can check out the forecast in full here.