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06 Sept 2025

Your latest weather forecast: Laois to drop to -7°C once again

Laois people are encouraged to wrap up warm ahead of a freezing cold day

Your latest weather forecast: Laois to drop to -7°C once again

Reporter:

Hannah Cahill

09 Jan 2025 9:57 AM

Email:

hannah.cahill@leinsterexpress.ie

A bitterly cold day is expected in Laois as Met Eireann warns of temperatures of -7°C tonight.
Last Tuesday night, Met Éireann confirmed with the Leinster Express / Laois Live that quality control observation stations closest to Laois recorded temperatures as low as -4.2C (Oak Park around 2am) and -6.1C (Mullingar around 8am).
Here is the latest forecast for Laois:
Today
Very cold this morning with widespread frost and ice lingering. Sunny spells will develop later with just a scattering of cloud in a cold northerly breeze. Staying mostly dry with highs really struggling at just 2 to 5 degrees.
Tonight
Very cold and dry tonight with frost setting in early. Cloud will push in from the south later. Bitterly cold with lowest temperature of -7 to -2 degrees with the lowest temperatures occurring early in the night. Frost, ice and black ice patches expected.
Friday
Cloudy with outbreaks of light rain spreading from the southwest but most areas will hold dry through to the evening. Highest temperatures of 2 to 5 degrees with light easterly breezes.
Friday Night
Quite an overcast night with outbreaks of rain and drizzle. Perhaps not as cold as previous nights either with lowest temperatures of 0 to 4 degrees with light winds.

Saturday
Staying rather cloudy with outbreaks of rain and drizzle gradually clearing away to the north. Some isolated bright or sunny spells will develop and it should stay dry through the afternoon. Light southerly breezes and highs of 4 to 8 degrees.

Saturday Night
A cloudy night overall but mostly dry too. Some patchy drizzle about western coasts but it will be a milder night than previously too. Lowest temperatures of 2 to 6 degrees with light southerly breezes. Some mist and fog patches will form overnight, quite dense in the southwest for a time.

Sunday
Another rather overcast day with freshening southerly breeze. Rain will gradually develop along western counties during the afternoon but it should hold dry across much of the country through to the evening. Highest temperatures of 8 to 11 degrees.

Next Week
Current indications are for high pressure to develop to the southeast of the country but a few frontal systems will clip western and northern counties too. Overall rather mixed with cloud and drizzle along Atlantic coastal fringes but drier and perhaps sunnier in the southeast.
An Gardaí Síochána Laois/Offaly have taken to Facebook to highlight the importance of checking on vulnerable neighbours during this cold snap.
"Although Laois and Offaly haven’t been as severely affected as some of our neighbouring counties, the recent cold snap has brought icy conditions to our roads, making travel hazardous in some areas," they stated.
"There are still pockets within both counties where people need our assistance. Our colleagues across #Laois and #Offaly, alongside local authority staff, are calling to check on vulnerable residents and ensure their wellbeing during this challenging time," they finished.
For more weather updates as they come, keep an eye on the Leinster Express / Laois Live homepage.

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