Snow and Ice Warning for Kildare tonight

Above: Jockeys riding out horses on the Curragh's training grounds this week. Photos: Patrick McCann.

A new snow-ice Weather Warning is in place for Co Kildare and the rest of the country from Met Éireann.

The forecaster has issued a Status Yellow warning for scattered snow showers tonight, accumulations of less than 3cm.

Showers more frequent in the west and north of the country.

The warning is valid from 9pm today until 9am tomorrow morning.

We'll see a frosty start to Friday morning but it will later become bright and cold.

Isolated wintry showers will fall in most places.