Short but sweet Indian summer coming this week...

We're set for a short Indian summer this week as weather changes will see warm temperatures and sunny spells.

Good signs of sunny weather to come are the low-hanging full moon at evening time and the orange-streaked skies in the morning.

Tomorrow [Wednesday] is forecast to be the best day with the mercury rising to 20 degrees - not bad for late September!

Long-range experts Irish Weather Online said that next week looks like the start of "a more prolonged settled period of weather."

It predicted "spells of near average temperatures and dry weather with sunshine".

High pressure system 

For this week, Met Eireann said temperatures will climb as high as 20 C in the coming days with forecasters predicting the conditions will last until the weekend.

"High pressure has started to settle in and Wednesday looks to be the best of the days," said Met Eireann forecaster Joanna Donnelly told Herald.ie

"We're looking at temperatures of 13C to 16C on Tuesday and up to 18C on Wednesday, maybe even more, and then it's around the same for the days after.

"Considering the weather in recent days it's looking better this week."

Storm Ali, the first of the winter storms to make landfall in Ireland last week, brought gale-force winds.

Met Eireann said h igh pressure looks set to remain the dominant feature of our weather over the weekend, with a good deal of dry weather across the country, with some sunny spells at times.