Temperatures set to fall to -4C overnight with up to 15cm of snow predicted for Co Kildare tomorrow!

The Midland Weather Channel is warning that it will be a very cold night ahead with temperatures set to fall as low as -4C, with a risk of 'severe frost and widespread ice', and as much as 15cm of snow for much of Leinster including Kildare.

New charts predict that the storm dubbed 'the Pest from the West' will come in from the west coast late on Thursday bringing as much as 14/15cm for Leinster.Meanwhile, Met Eireann has said that 'significant accumulations' of snow are possible on high ground on Thursday.

Earlier today Met Eireann updated their status yellow snow-ice warning which is in place until Saturday predicting that even low-lying areas may be affected by snow. They said: "Continuing very cold for the remainder of the week with widespread frost, ice and lying snow some places. Further wintry falls in parts of the southwest, west and north today but showers will ease later. On Thursday a wintry mix of rain, sleet and snow will move in accompanied by strong easterly winds."

Met Eireann said:"Significant accumulations of snow are possible on high ground and with some accumulations to lower-levels at times."

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Mist and fog will form in places, with some freezing fog tonight for Kildare. Becoming breezy and rather cloudy later, which should help to clear some of the fog and frost.

Some rain becoming heavy will develop in the south before dawn, with sleet or hill snow in places. Lowest temperatures -2 to -4 degrees.

Meanwhile, a Status Yellow snow and ice warning remains in place for Ireland until Saturday, with showers of hail, sleet and snow forecast.

It will be cold and increasingly windy on Thursday. Remaining frost, ice and fog soon clearing. Heavy rain will extend northeastwards during the day, with falls of snow in places but mostly over high ground initially.

Top temperatures just 2 to 5 degrees and feeling colder in the easterly wind, but values will reach 6 or 7 degrees in southern coastal fringes.

Headline: Very cold conditions will persist until Sunday. Very frosty nights, with widespread icy conditions. Some wintry precipitation at times too. Less cold from late Sunday onwards but changeable and unsettled.

Thursday night: Very cold and frosty overnight with icy roads and also some lying snow. Frosty from the start over Ulster with some pockets of freezing fog. Windy for a time elsewhere with a mix of rain, sleet and snow.

The snow is likely to be heaviest over much of Munster and south Leinster, with some significant accumulations in places. But this band of weather will clear southwards later in the night and the fresh and gusty east to northeast winds will moderate also.

Icy here also with lying snow in places. Overnight lows generally below zero between -2 and -5 C., coldest over snow fields but zero or + 1 along the south and southeast coasts.