A humid day for Co Kildare with nice sunny spells as temperatures to soar as high as 26C-still time for an ice-cream!
By Kim O'Leary
It's set to be a warm, humid and mainly dry day ahead for Co Kildare with sunny spells later in the afternoon as temperatures are expected to rise as high as 26C-although it look's like this will mark the end of the exceptionally warm summer with a return to normal temperatures for this time of year.
According to the forecast by Irish Weather Online's Professor Peter O'Donnell, today will see "some sunny intervals and quite warm in the southeast and east, highs of 23 to 26C" with more cloud likely in southwest, west, north central and further north, although the occasional sunny break possible, reasonably warm also at 20 to 23 C.
"Moderate southwesterly winds will develop by afternoon reaching 40 to 60 km/hr. TONIGHT ... Rain at times will extend from the northwest early evening to most other parts of Ireland during the night with a cold front making steady progress southeast, but temperatures will remain quite mild at 13 to 16 C. About 5 mm of rain on average, 10 mm locally in some north central counties," said Professor O'Donnell.
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Tonight will be mild and mostly cloudy over much of the province with some patchy mist or drizzle. Persistent rain will develop in the north overnight. Lowest temperatures of 14 to 16 degrees.
Meanwhile, the weather is set to return to cooler, wetter conditions for this time of year with rain predicted by the middle of the week.
WEDNESDAY ... The rain will taper to showers in the east and south by mid-morning and sunny spells will follow from the west, with some longer sunny intervals for parts of the midlands, west and north. Becoming partly sunny in the south and east by afternoon also, and highs generally 18 to 20 C. Winds moderate westerly at times, 30 to 50 km/hr.
THURSDAY ... Partly cloudy, breezy and rather cool by this summer's standards, morning lows near 8 C and afternoon highs 15 or 16 C. Some passing showers, winds west to northwest 40 to 60 km/hr, rainfalls about 2 or 3 mm on average.
FRIDAY ... Some intervals of light rain, breezy and continued rather cool, lows near 7 C and highs near 16 C.