Clare weather: Thursday February 22, 2024
Latest Met Eireann forecast for The Banner County
Cold and bright on Thursday, with sunshine and showers, the showers most frequent in the west.
Some of the showers will be heavy with hail and a chance of thunder. There'll be some sleet showers too over hills and mountains and a few snow showers on the mountains.
Noticeably cooler than recently with afternoon highs of 5 to 8 degrees. Becoming breezy too, with moderate to fresh and occasionally gusty southwest to west winds.
It will be cold on Thursday night with further showers in most places, some heavy with hail, with sleet possible over high ground. It'll be drier further east with lengthier clear breaks.
Lowest temperatures of 0 to 3 degrees, with a touch of frost. Winds will be light to moderate southwest to west, fresher in coastal parts of the west and southwest.
Friday will be another fairly cool day with sunny spells and showers. Some of the showers will again be heavy with hail and a chance of thunder. Afternoon highs of 5 to 8 degrees in moderate, occasionally fresh, and gusty westerly winds.
Showers will become confined to coastal parts of the west and north for a time early on Friday night, but the showers will start to spread elsewhere again overnight. Some falls of sleet or snow are possible over higher ground.
Cold with some frost and ice possible as temperatures fall to between -1 and +3 degrees in mostly light to moderate winds, fresher in the west and veering west to northwest overnight.
Saturday will bring a lot of dry weather overall, with some sunshine, though with cloud increasing from the southwest later. There'll still be a scattering of showers around, these mainly of rain, and they'll tend to die away later. Afternoon highs of 7 to 10 degrees in mainly light to moderate west to northwest winds.
*Information from Met Éireann.