A status yellow weather warning for snow and ice will remain in place across the country until Friday afternoon. Met Éireann updated its forecast at 1pm after a previous warning for the northwest expired at 10am. Heavy showers are expected in the north and northwest on Thursday night with some snow likely to fall. Met Éireann forecaster Evelyn Cusack has defended her organisation’s method of classifying storms and issuing warnings. It needs no more than a standard weather warning.

Source: The Irish Times January 18, 2018 08:37 UTC