Big chill set to continue
Wednesday October 29 2008
TEMPERATURES are set to drop as low as minus four degrees overnight as our cold snap continues.
Winter has arrived a month early this year and all over the country temperatures are dipping below zero degrees.
Today was wet and cold in the east while the west got the best of the dry weather. Met Eireann predicts that tomorrow will be drier, but will be even cooler.
"It is quite cold really for October," said a forecaster. "In Britain they got their first fall of snow." She said it dropped to minus three degrees in the east last night and colder temperatures are expected tonight.
Even as commuters were on their journey to work this morning, most parts of the country were still extremely cold. At 7am Dublin Airport recorded just 1 degree, while Johnstown Castle in Wexford and Birr Co Offaly were both reporting temperatures of just zero degrees.
Freezing conditions will take hold as darkness falls again and there is a chance of sleet and snow on higher ground, particularly in North Leinster.
It will be much of the same for the rest of the week.
Winter warmers will have to come several weeks earlier to battle this extended cold snap and today there was the added difficulty of showers as wet weather stretched across much of the country.
- Sarah Neville
