The country is under a nationwide snow and ice yellow weather warning until midnight tonight, with wintry showers set to bring up to 3cm of snow in some areas. The country is under a nationwide snow and ice yellow weather warning until midnight tonight, with wintry showers set to bring up to 3cm of snow in some areas. Today will be bitingly cold throughout the country with a mix of sunny spells, broken by sometimes heavy showers of rain, hail, sleet and snow. The showers will be heavy with a risk of thunder and will fall as rain, hail, sleet and snow. Conditions will clear overnight, though the threat of occasional wintry showers remains with frost and ice on Tuesday morning causing temperatures to fall to between 0° and -3°C.

Source: Irish Independent February 11, 2018 07:42 UTC