ALERT: Met Éireann's Irish weather forecast for the week ahead has landed...

Monday: A blustery day on Monday with scattered showers and good spells of sunshine at first. More widespread heavy showers will spread from the west through the afternoon. Some showers will be of hail with scattered thunderstorms.

Showers will become more scattered this evening. Highest temperatures of 9 to 12 degrees in moderate to fresh and gusty southwesterly winds.

Monday night scattered showers will continue, most frequent and heavy at times in the west and north with a chance of hail and isolated thunderstorms.

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Further east and south there will be longer dry and clear intervals. Lowest temperatures of 1 to 4 degrees in moderate to fresh westerly winds.

Tuesday: It will be another day of sunshine and showers. The showers will be mainly confined to the western half of the country in the morning but they will spread further eastwards through the day, some turning heavy with a chance of hail. Highest temperatures of 7 to 10 degrees in moderate westerly winds.

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National Outlook
Overview: Plenty of bright weather for the rest of the working week, though with showers at times also.

Tuesday night: Turning cloudy overnight with showery rain spreading from the west, heavy in some spots with the chance of hail. The rain will clear into the Irish Sea in the early hours of the morning. Lowest temperatures of 1 to 4 degrees in light to moderate southwesterly winds.

Wednesday: A mix of sunny spells and scattered showers on Wednesday, with showers easing in the evening. Turning quite breezy with moderate to fresh northwesterly winds developing. Highest temperatures of 6 to 9 degrees.

Wednesday night: A cold and largely dry night with clear spells, though isolated showers will continue in parts of the west and north. Westerly winds will ease light to moderate with lowest temperatures of -1 to +3 degrees.

Thursday: Bright and mainly dry on Thursday with well scattered showers. Highest temperatures of 7 to 10 degrees in light to moderate westerly winds.

Friday: Friday will start off generally dry with spells of sunshine and just isolated showers. However, cloud will increase through the afternoon with rain possible near western coasts by evening. Highest temperatures of 7 to 10 degrees with moderate southerly winds freshening through the day.

Next weekend: Current indications suggest that there will be further spells of rain over the weekend, though with the chance of some drier intervals on Sunday.