A status yellow low temperature and ice warning will be in place from 6pm in Leinster and Connacht. Met Eireann is forecasting temperatures to dip as low as -4°C in places. The alert will run until 11am tomorrow morning. Liz Gavin, forecaster with Met Éireann, says there is also a change of ground frost. "Our weather will be turning colder tonight than recent nights and we are going to see a widespread frost"So temperatures tonight will fall between zero and -4°C."

Source: Irish Examiner January 17, 2020 16:52 UTC