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Met Eireann confirmed that snow hit parts of the country Tuesday night, as videos and images show a white Christmas in Ireland.
A mix of snow and sleet hit higher ground last night during a weather advisory when temperatures dropped below freezing.
The national forecaster had also issued a yellow state rain warning for Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford, which remained in place until 9 a.m. this morning.
Today’s forecast from Met Eireann will be wet and windy this morning over Munster and Leinster.
Tonight it will become largely dry and clear with only isolated showers in Connacht and Ulster.
Frosts and some icy patches will form as temperatures drop to between 0 and 3 degrees.
Christmas Eve will be a largely dry and bright day, with isolated showers.
It will be mostly dry and fairly calm weather initially, but a change to very unstable conditions from St Stephen’s Day as it becomes very wet and windy.
Thursday night / Christmas Eve will be a very cold night.
It will be colder in Leinster with clearer conditions and a heavy frost developing.
Friday / Christmas Day will start dry, but afterwards it will be cloudy for much of the day with some sunshine.
The shoots of rain will develop towards the night.
Friday / Christmas night will get windy overnight with cooling west to southwest winds developing and becoming gusty.
Saturday is set to be a very windy day with strong and gusty winds from the southwest with gales or strong gales off the Atlantic shores.
Saturday Night: Wet and windy to start, but the rain will slowly clear to the south, followed by stormy showers with temperatures lower than -1.
Sunday is forecast to be a cold day with higher temperatures of just 4 to 7 degrees, colder again in the north.
At the beginning of next week it will remain very unstable with rains and showers.
It will also be cold, with some icy nights.
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