{"id":38714,"date":"2025-04-21T16:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38714\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:08:09","slug":"northern-ireland-weather-met-office-forecasts-more-rain-after-showery-easter-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38714\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland weather: Met Office forecasts more rain after showery Easter weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recent rain brought an end to over a week of blue skies and sunshine earlier this month, but more settled spring weather is thought to be on the way. <\/p>\n

The Met Office predicts that Tuesday will have a dry, bright start, but it will be become cloudy as the morning goes on, with outbreaks of rain spreading east in the afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n

These showers will become heavier at times. However, it will be quite warm, with freshening southeast winds and a maximum temperature of 14C in NI.<\/p>\n

Wednesday will be mainly dry with some sunshine.<\/p>\n

Thursday and Friday will again be cloudy, with rain gradually spreading eastwards, possibly turning heavy on Friday.<\/p>\n

The national forecaster\u2019s long-range predictions see little changes through the weekend, although the chance of a few heavy showers may increase.<\/p>\n

Into the following week, the weather will most probably be high pressure dominated, with large amounts of fine weather, and perhaps the odd heavy shower. <\/p>\n

However, there is a small chance of an alternative scenario coming off, with cloudier and wetter weather more extensive, especially across the south and west of the UK.<\/p>\n

Winds are most likely to be light, with temperatures probably at or slightly above normal.<\/p>\n

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A yellow weather warning for rain had been issued for NI over much of the Easter weekend, with the warning impacting parts of Co Down and Co Antrim from 2pm on Friday until 3pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The outlook for Easter came as a yellow weather warning was also put into force across 11 counties in the Republic of Ireland with a caution of potential for flooding on Friday.<\/p>\n

Met Eireann issued a Status Yellow warning for Galway and Mayo between 6am this morning until 9pm on Friday night.<\/p>\n

A third rain warning came into effect for counties Carlow, Dublin, Louth, Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow and Waterford between 6am on Friday until 6am on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Temperatures across Northern Ireland on Easter Monday stayed at a steady 11C, with heavy rain in some parts, particularly in Ballymena and Belfast at times. <\/p>\n

April 11 marked the hottest day here this year so far, with Castlederg in Co Tyrone reaching up to 22C \u2013 an unseasonably warm time for the month. <\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Met Office said that there is some truth to the weather lore that April showers bring May flowers, as \u201cApril does tend to be a showery month, and the warmth of May soon follows bringing the familiar colours of the UK spring\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent rain brought an end to over a week of blue skies and sunshine earlier this month,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[5825,1144,16,15,741],"class_list":{"0":"post-38714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-niamh-campbell","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114376822237083739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}