Irish skies may look slightly grey this morning but the warm weather is still set to continue until the weekend with temperatures set to reach 25 degrees on Wednesday.
Tuesday is set to be warm and humid with hazy sunshine and some isolated showers in Munster and south Leinster. However showers across the northern half of the country will become widespread in the afternoon with a risk of heavy or thundery downpours in Ulster and parts of norther Leinster.
Temperatures will range between 18 and 23 degrees.
The showers will die away in the evening leaving mild, humid weather overnight on Tuesday. It will be misty with fog over hills and some coastal areas with lowest temperatures of 11 to 15 degrees.
Wednesday will be very warm with temperatures reaching 25 degrees, but scattered showers will develop in the afternoon. The humid weather will continue into Thursday with temperatures slightly falling leading to fresher weather on Friday.
John Eagleton of Met Éireann told The Irish Times at the weekend that the unseasonably warm and sunny weather experienced across Ireland over the last 10 days is due to continue until next weekend when normal service looks set to resume.
“It is going to be warm right through the week,” Mr Eagleton said.
The forecaster said after Wednesday temperatures would most likely start to fall and by the weekend they should return to the typical range for this time of year of between 16 and 18 degrees.