FORECAST IRELAND
The Met Office's models and Met Éireann's own, on one atlas of the island
Ireland, right now · Éire anois
LOADING…The island's towns, stations, islands and summits with the model's 2 m temperature and 10 m wind for the current hour. Click a place for its forecast, or a province for its maps; counties under a live Met Éireann warning are washed in its colour. Drawn in Irish Transverse Mercator — the national grid's own projection, on 8°W — over relief made here from the elevation itself.
The models
MET OFFICE · MET ÉIREANNThe fingerposts
MIZEN TO MALIN · GREAT-CIRCLE KMThe island's old cast-iron fingerposts point down every boreen, Irish over English, the distance in miles until 2005 and in kilometres since. These three stand at the ends of the island — Malin Head at the top, Mizen Head at the bottom, and Dublin on the east coast — and point at the rest of it, and at the places people come home from.
How to read it
Two services, two 2 km models. The UKV is the Met Office's convection-permitting model over Britain and Ireland, run every three hours to 54 hours. HARMONIE is Met Éireann's — HARMONIE-AROME on the domain it shares with the Danish, Dutch and Icelandic services — run every hour, drawn here four times a day, to 60 hours. The Met Office Global carries the town forecasts on to seven days. The plate's switch shows either one on the same towns; the maps flip between them at the same valid time.
Read a value anywhere. Every map frame is drawn through a fixed palette — a reversible encoding of the field — so the pointer reads the model's number back out of the pixel it is over. The town pages carry the full hourly series, with both models side by side.
Irish time, km/h. Times are Irish time (GMT in winter, IST in summer — the same clock as Belfast's), winds default to km/h as Met Éireann gives them, and the unit toggles above are remembered on every page.
Warnings are Met Éireann's. The coloured counties and the notices above the plate are Met Éireann's live warnings, fetched every ten minutes. They are not a substitute for met.ie, and Northern Ireland's warnings are the Met Office's.