There is not much good news for anyone who thinks today’s sunshine bodes well for the weekend, with forecasts for further heavy and showery rain across the country over the coming days.
Met Éireann predicts further unsettled weather, with heavy showers and windy conditions over the weekend and into early next week.
Today will be dry apart from isolated showers near north west coasts. But rain will arrive in the west of the country before midnight and spread to all parts of the country overnight.
Saturday will also be unsettled, according to Met Éireann meteorologist Deirdre Lowe.
“Tomorrow morning is going to start wet and windy with some heavy rain early, particularly in the midlands and the east,” she said.
“During the morning, the rain will clear away into the Irish Sea, probably clearing the east coast early in the afternoon. After that there will be sunshine and still some showers developing.”
Temperatures will be good, at between 19 and 21 degrees.
Sunday will also enjoy some bright sunshine and good temperatures but with heavy showers at times too, particularly over Ulster and Connacht Ms Lowe said. It will also be very windy.
Showers will die away towards Sunday evening.
Monday morning “doesn’t look too bad”, according to Ms Lowe. “But it looks like it will turn wet and windy later on Monday night.”
There is no better weather forecast for Tuesday either, with a very showery day in prospect.
“There’s low pressure over the country so there could be some thundery and very heavy downpours. Then, beyond that, it still looks unsettled and it looks like it will get a bit fresher after that,” said Ms Lowe.
Meanwhile, Shannon Airport today showed no signs of the record rainfall that caused flash flooding there on Wednesday.
The airport experienced the highest recorded rainfall in one hour since records began.
A total of 38.4mm (more than an inch and a half of rain) fell between 5pm and 6pm on Wednesday - almost half the average total for the month of August.
Met Éireann said the deluge was a once in-125-years event.
Shannon Airport spokesman Eugene Pratt said there were no signs today of the flooding, even though travellers at one point on Wednesday were wading through water on the roads outside the airport. “None at all,” he said. “No buildings were flooded and it had no impact on flights at all.”