The country will fall under the grip of a cold snap from Monday.
The icy weather is expected to last through much of the week after a mild start to the month.
Met Eireann’s issued a weather advisory of much colder conditions due to the warm weather we had this month.
Some sheltered rural parts of the country could see temperatures dip as low as minus 5 degrees.
Carlow Weather’s Alan O’Reilly says snow is unlikely in this part of the country,
“We can see on the latest weather models that we will have rain moving in from the North West on Sunday and it looks like many parts of Ireland will see rain in Monday. “
“The sleet and the snow looks mainly to be in Ulster and even there it could be on high ground but there could be some bits on low ground but I think a lot of people have been sharing photos of snow charts and I think a lot those people will be disappointed because there’s not going to be a lot of snow for most people, in fact most people wont see snow on Monday.”
“It will turn cold and when that low pulls away on Sunday its going to turn bitterly cold for the rest of the week with frosty nights and it’s only going to get up to 3 or 4 degrees by day and the wind chill will make it feel like it still below 1 degrees during the day so from Monday night its really going to be cold and that’s going to last up till next week but beyond that its very uncertain.”
