Our glorious summer is set to continue this week as we can expect to bask in more sunshine and warm weather.
Temperatures are expected to reach a balmy 26C for the midlands and east, with light to moderate southwest breezes on the cards.
Met Éireann forecaster Holly O’Neill explained that the good weather ‘is coming back for a little bit’ with ‘very warm’ temperatures ‘moving across the country’.
She added: ‘There is high pressure over the country at present. Some people like these temperatures and that will be good news for them.
‘Isolated showers will move back in on Wednesday until Friday but high pressure will move back in over next weekend.’
The national outlook for the week will be for warm or very warm weather developing widely as continental air moves over the country.
It will be dry in the early half of the week with some much-needed showery rain expected by midweek.
Today will be dry with a mix of cloud and sunshine and it will be warmest across Munster and Leinster.
Top temperatures will be between 17C and 24C with just light westerly breezes. Tomorrow will be warmer with long spells of sunshine.
Top temperatures of 22C to 26C and just light southeast breezes are expected.
Wednesday will be ‘very warm and humid in a light to moderate southerly breeze’, according to Met Éireann.
A mix of cloud and sunshine will occur through the day with some showery outbreaks of rain gradually moving in from the Atlantic.
Some east and southeast areas will stay fully dry, though, with top temperatures of 22C to 28C, warmest in Leinster.
It will remain rather warm for southern and eastern areas on Thursday and Friday, and turn fresher elsewhere.
A fair amount of dry weather is expected with just isolated showers.
Ms O’Neill added: ‘It could be a case that we do get what is classed as a heatwave, with five consecutive days of 25C in the shade, but as of yet there is no consecutive pattern like this.
‘Temperatures for this time of the year are between two and four degrees higher than average.’
The temperatures will mean wildfires, similar to those in the Dublin Mountains last week, remain a threat.
