Over all this week will not be to bad but the best of the Weather will arrive mid week lasting into this weekend. Heavy rainfall this morning across the west, northwest and north has now cleared to the north of Ireland with dry weather across much of Ireland this afternoon and evening.

The latest High Resolution cloud forecast from Eumetsat shows some good bright and sunny spells also Developing across the east and south of Ireland this afternoon with more in the way of cloud across the west and north.

Mostly dry on Tuesday with temperatures as high as 18C

Tuesday will be a dry day for much of Ireland with cloudy conditions across western and norther parts of Ireland with bright and sunny spells to the south and east where it will also be warmest with temperatures reaching as high as 18C across parts of the east and midlands. it will be coolest in the west and north with lows of 14C to 16C.

**Temperatures as high as 18C on Tuesday**

On Tuesday evening and night a band of rain will move down from the northwest of Ireland with some heavy pulses for a time in northwestern counites but overall amounts will be rather small. On Wednesday morning the rain will move to all areas moving northwest to southeast but as the rain moves southeastwards it will become light and fizzle out during the later stage of Wednesday afternoon and evening. Temperatures on Tuesday will be that bit cooler between 9C to 15C

Overnight Wednesday will see the start of drier conditions for a number of days as high pressure builds with brighter and sunnier days ahead to start Easter.

Turning dry everywhere from Thursday to Saturday with good sunny spells

Thursday, Friday and Saturday will see strong ridge of high pressure build across Ireland with Ireland sitting right under the main area of High pressure which will bring calm settled and dry conditions and going by the latest position the high pressure will set up in it will also bring some nice much needed sunshine to start of the Easter.

**Ireland sitting right under the ridge of high pressure at the end of this week into the weekend with good sunshine**

Temperatures on Thursday will range between 10C to 17C warmest in the southwest the day will be a dry one with good sunny spells. Overnight it will be cool with lows of around 0C in some parts with the slight risk of frost coldest over the northern half of Ireland.

Temperatures on Friday will range between 9C to 15C again warmest in the southwest with good sunshine across the country. Overnight will be cold again with temperatures falling between -1C to 2C again with frost developing.

Saturday again looks like another dry and sunny day with temperatures between 8C to 13C possibly a little higher in some parts of the west. Overnight will be cool with the slight risk of some frost.

Turning even Colder on Sunday and early next week with Arctic air and snow showers

The latest outlook is for high pressure to then drift to the west of Ireland on Sunday out over the Atlantic which will open the door for a northerly airflow to develop and cold air to move right down across Ireland next week with the source of the cold air coming from the Arctic.

**High pressure drifts to the west of Ireland with a northerly airflow setting up from Easter Sunday**

The latest outlook shows a very cold air source coming down from the north on Sunday and Monday and lasting possibly into midweek.

The cold air move north to south rather quickly from the Arctic which means by the time it reaches Ireland with will not be to modified meaning much of the cold source will still be there with upper air temperatures of around -10C this will mean Later Easter Sunday, Easter Monday and Tuesday some areas will be at risk to heavy snow showers along with some snow accumulations.

Another scenario might be that the high pressure just moves a little to the west keeping the weather mostly dry but cool in a northerly airflow.

The outcome will depend how far west the high move into the Atlantic the further out it moves the more risk of colder conditions and wintry falls of snow.

I will have another update midweek

Kenneth from the Donegal Weather Channel

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