Outbreaks of rain and drizzle, with mist and risk of fog patches, Rain and drizzle becoming widespread and persistent tonight but a clearance to fair weather will reach western sea areas reaching around dawn. The visibility for all sea areas: Moderate to poor in rain, drizzle, mist or fog, good otherwise. The outlook for a further 24 hours until 0600 Sunday 24 May 2009: Winds becoming light to moderate southwest to westerly during Saturday but later increasing fresh to strong south to southwest on western and northern coasts. Remaining rain and drizzle clearing eastwards during Saturday morning with mainly fair weather following.
It looks like moderate winds will prevail across the country for a host of sailing events this weekend. Met Eireann are forecasting South to southwest or southerly force 4 to 5 but south to southeast force 3 to 4 this morning in northwestern sea areas from Erris Head to Malin Head. Winds becoming southerly force 4 to 5 throughout the area this evening and veering westerly force 4 to 5 overnight.
Published in News From the Afloat.ie Archive
Published in
News From the Afloat.ie Archive
About The Author
Afloat.ie Team
Afloat.ie is Ireland's dedicated marine journalism team.
Have you got a story for our reporters? Email us here.
We've got a favour to ask
More people are reading Afloat.ie than ever thanks to the power of the internet but we're in stormy seas because advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. Unlike many news sites, we haven’t put up a paywall because we want to keep our marine journalism open.
Afloat.ie is Ireland's only full–time marine journalism team and it takes time, money and hard work to produce our content.
So you can see why we need to ask for your help.
If everyone chipped in, we can enhance our coverage and our future would be more secure. You can help us through a small donation. Thank you.
