A cold weather warning has been issued for much of Ireland for Tuesday night, with icy conditions expected in places.
Met Éireann issued the yellow warning for low temperature and ice on Tuesday morning. All of Munster and Connacht, as well as Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Offaly and Westmeath are covered.
The warning will come into effect at 8pm on Tuesday and lasts until 11am on Wednesday.
No warnings have currently been issued for Northern Ireland by the UK Met Office.
The Met Éireann warning cautions that it will be “very cold tonight, with minimum temperatures of -3 degrees or lower. A sharp to severe frost forming with icy stretches.”
The national forecast is for a dry and calm evening with a widespread sharp frost and icy stretches. Freezing fog is possible, with lowest temperatures of -4 to 2 degrees.
In the parts of Leinster’s eastern seaboard not affected by the warning, temperatures may remain at about 3 to 5 degrees.
On Tuesday morning, 15,000 properties were still without power in the wake of the weekend’s damage from Storm Darragh. Many of the homes and businesses affected were in the country’s west, in areas expected to be affected by the latest cold snap.
The longer-term forecast predicts low temperatures for the rest of the week, with lows of -3 on Wednesday and -1 on Thursday and Friday.
The weekend is expected to be showery, with milder conditions.
