Sun and high temperatures forecast for a week

Has summer arrived? Of course it has, the exams start next week.

And just in time for the bank holiday weekend, Met Éireann is forecasting that temperatures will pass 20 degrees Celsius.

Today it will hit 18 degrees with the warmest weather in the south and sunny southeast .

Tomorrow might start off cloudy and damp, but later in the afternoon some breaks will develop in the cloud with some good sunny spells forming and temperatures of 18 degrees possible.

Bank holiday Monday looks like it will be the warmest day of the weekend, with highest temperatures of 17 to 21 degrees, according to the national forecaster.

It said Tuesday and Wednesdaylook like being “quite warm and dry, with good sunny spells and top temperatures in the high teens or low twenties”.

“ At the moment the warmer weather looks like continuing past the middle of next week,” Met Éireann added.