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People heading to the Christmas markets in Belfast(Image: Rob Currell)<\/p>\n
The Met Office has released its weather forecast for Northern Ireland <\/a>as we approach Christmas<\/a>, and the weather is looking up for the big day.<\/p>\n Christmas Eve will see a cloudy day take place with patchy light rain at times. The good news is that Christmas Day is expected to become dry with increasing bright spells, which will increase during Friday for Boxing day.<\/p>\n In the lead-up to the new year, the Met Office predicts: “Continued mostly settled conditions expected, as high pressure builds to the north of the UK. This will bring a strengthening easterly then north-easterly wind over the period, with wind-chill making it feel colder.<\/p>\n READ MORE: The places in Belfast you can dine and donate this Christmas<\/a>READ MORE: What to do if parcel deliveries go wrong over Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n “Whilst there will be a fair amount of dry weather<\/a>, a few showers will still be possible, particularly across eastern and southern parts which may be wintry in places, more especially over high ground. High pressure will likely dominate the weather in the run up to the New Year, slowly drifting to the west.<\/p>\n “This will maintain largely settled conditions, although with an increasing chance of showery conditions later in the period. Temperatures will be below average much of the time, with frost likely where clear skies and light winds prevail.”<\/p>\n For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage <\/strong>here<\/a> and sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite patches of rain leading up to the big day, conditions are expected to improve by the end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[35745,1142,1144,16,15,741],"class_list":{"0":"post-651445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-christmas","9":"tag-met-office","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115771768333589496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651445","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=651445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}