Met Eireann has issued an urgent 16-hour low temperature and ice warning for Ireland in a snow update for the whole country.
The weather warning will be in place from 6pm this evening until 10am on Sunday morning as temperatures plummet all over Ireland.
Met Eireann warns: "Temperatures will fall to minus 3 or 4 degrees tonight, colder locally away from coasts.
"This will lead to a widespread hard ground frost and icy surfaces, with potentially dangerous conditions."
Looking to Sunday and it will be largely dry with good sunshine and scattered wintry showers which will turn to "rain, sleet and snow showers" in the night time with between -3C to 1C temperatures overnight.
The further outlook from Met Eireann for this coming week and including next Saturday and Sunday states that: "Towards the weekend reports suggest it will stay cold for the rest of the week with further wintry showers or longer spells of sleet or snow at times. Day time temperatures will mostly struggle to get above freezing with hard frost at night continuing."
Here's what Met Eireann are saying from Monday onwards:
Monday: "Dry with sunshine for the midlands, west and north on Monday, with frost and ice slow to clear in the morning. A cloudier day in the east and south, with showers affecting east Leinster, turning wintry over higher ground. Temperatures in the afternoon of 2 to 4 degrees, a little higher on northern and eastern coasts. Light to moderate northeast winds, will be occasionally fresh and gusty at the east coast."
Tuesday: "There'll be little change through the day; it'll be cloudy at times in the east and south, with isolated rain and sleet showers at the coasts there, there'll be good sunshine elsewhere. Fog may linger in to the afternoon in parts of the south. Afternoon temperatures of 2 or 3 degrees at best will fall overnight to as low as minus four degrees. Light north or northeast breezes will keep temperatures just a tad higher at coasts."
Wednesday: "A change of wind direction that day, light northerly winds will back westerly. It'll be a dry, sunny day but it remains cold with temperatures in the afternoon expected to linger at just above freezing despite the sunshine, down to as low as minus 4 degrees again Wednesday night."
