Bitter cold conditions to continue into weekend in Kilkenny

Temperatures are not expected to get above 0C in Kilkenny until noon on Friday.

Freezing conditions will not lift at all, right through until early on Sunday.

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Temperatures are forecast to lift from around 9am on Sunday morning, eventually rising to 12C. 

Rain is forecast to arrive in the early hours of Sunday morning and continue through to the afternoon. 

Met Éireann predicts that it will be very cold today in mainly dry and sunny conditions with scattered wintry showers in the north and northwest.

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Pockets of fog will linger in parts too. Temperatures will remain below freezing in some parts of the midlands throughout much of the day with afternoon temperatures ranging between 0 and +3 degrees generally, but rising a few degrees higher on coastal fringes in light northwesterly winds.

It is to be mainly dry and clear tonight but some freezing fog will develop, mostly in the midlands, as winds fall light and variable. Lowest temperatures again widely reaching -5 degrees inland, and reaching -7 or -8 degrees in central areas. Not as cold in most coastal counties.

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On Friday morning any freezing fog will gradually clear inland parts. It will start mainly dry and bright with isolated showers in the west and northwest. Showers will become heavier and more widespread during the afternoon and evening with the chance of a few isolated thunderstorms and small hail near northwest coasts.

Showers will mainly fall as rain, but will turn increasingly wintry as they move inland later. Very cold with afternoon highs ranging from 0 to +4 degrees inland, a couple of degrees higher on the coast in light or moderate southwesterly winds.