Ireland is braced for temperatures to soar next week as a promising new high pressure system is set to move in.
Weather experts are predicting highs to reach the mid-twenties and for there to be plenty of warm and dry weather across the country.
Conditions will start to become more settled towards the end of next week with Thursday seeing highs of 23C, before temperatures rise even further for Friday and the weekend.
Meanwhile Sunday looks set to be a very mixed day with showers in many areas, turning heavy and even thundery at times.
A Met Eireann forecaster said: "Today will be a rather wet day with outbreaks of showery rain, some heavy and possibly thundery with the risk of spot flooding. However, there will be drier spells over Ulster and some bright spells will develop later, mainly in the south and west. Highest temperatures of 16 to 20 degrees in a light to moderate southeasterly or variable breeze.
"Showery outbreaks of rain will gradually die out early tonight, leaving a good deal of dry weather with isolated showers and clear spells. Mist and fog patches will develop in a light variable breeze. Lowest temperatures of 9 to 14 degrees, coolest over Munster and south Leinster and mildest over Ulster.
"Tomorrow, Monday, will start largely dry but quite cloudy with isolated showers. It will brighten up through the day as sunny spells and scattered showers develop. Some showers will turn heavy over the eastern half of the country in the evening with the chance of isolated thunderstorms. Warm with highest temperatures of 19 to 22 degrees in a light to moderate northwesterly or variable breeze.
"Heavy showers over the eastern half of the country will gradually die out, leaving a mostly dry night with clear spells and just isolated showers. A light northwesterly breeze will allow patches of mist and fog to develop overnight. Lowest temperatures of 11 to 14 degrees."
And as the week goes on weather experts are predicting our weather to turn more settled as a high pressure system moves in and starts to "dominate".
It will be "dry for most and warm overall" with temperatures rising to the mid-twenties by later in the week.
A forecaster added: "A generally cloudy start to the day on Tuesday with scattered patches of drizzle developing in western coastal counties. Elsewhere will be largely dry with sunny spells developing though the day. Highest temperatures of 18 to 22 degrees in a light northwesterly breeze.
"Wednesday will be a dry day for most with sunny spells. However, it will be cloudier over western coastal counties with patchy light rain and drizzle developing there through the day. Highest temperatures of 20 to 24 degrees generally, a little less warm along western coasts with temperatures of 18 to 20 degrees, in a moderate southwesterly breeze.
"A generally cloudy night on Wednesday with many areas staying dry, though patchy light rain and drizzle in the west will drift further inland overnight. A warm night with lowest temperatures of 13 to 16 degrees in a light to moderate westerly breeze.
"Thursday will start quite cloudy with scattered patches of light rain and drizzle. It will become drier and brighter through the day, with sunny spells developing. Highest temperatures of 19 to 23 degrees generally, slightly less warm along western and northern coasts, in a light to moderate northwesterly breeze.
"Current indications suggest that there will be a good deal of dry weather on Friday apart from light showers in the west. The weekend will stay largely dry with spells of sunshine. It will be warm too with temperatures widely reaching the mid-twenties."
