Experts have warned that the 'first storm of season' is set to rip through Ireland days after Easter.
Weather models are showing a system developing in the Atlantic could bring a storm in the middle of next week.
Weather Alerts Ireland said on Facebook on Thursday that for the first time in a long time that there is a "risk of a storm", according to Dublin Live. They said: "Lots of the models forecasting this storm to impact Ireland next Tuesday into Wednesday.
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"From this mornings models the ECMWF, UKMO and the ICON model are in some agreement that the system will impact Ireland. A very interesting weekend of forecasts coming up! A chance of the first storm of the season being named.... in April," they added.
Meanwhile, Alan O'Reilly who runs Carlow Weather Twitter account also shared photos of some concerning weather models for Ireland next week, with a low system looking likely to form and hit next Tuesday.
He wrote: "Weather models struggling to get a handle on next week with jet stream moving over us and possible firing up a low system.
"However the track and details are chopping and changing a lot as these last 3 model updates show." He added that added that showers will try and "push into the west" during the Easter Bank Holiday this weekend.
Meanwhile, Met Éireann has issued a bleak weather forecast for the bank holiday weekend with washout conditions for Easter Monday.
While Friday and Saturday will remain mostly dry with some spells of hazy sunshine, and the occasional shower, it will then take a turn for the worse.
Rain is due to arrive on Easter Sunday afternoon with outbreaks of rain and drizzle covering the whole country by the evening, with the heaviest showers in west and southwest counties.
And unfortunately the whole of Ireland is set to be hit with heavy rain on the bank holiday Monday, with "widespread showers" and "hail and thunder" possible as well.
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