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After a fairly rainy day on Friday, the weather is set to improve over Saturday and Sunday, according to the forecast from Met Éireann.
Saturday will be a bright, fresh day with good sunny spells. It will be dry apart from some scattered showers.
Temperatures of 9°C to 12°C in moderate west to southwest winds.
Saturday night will be dry with clear spells. It will also be rather cool with lowest temperatures 1°C to 6°C, with a slight frost in rural parts of Munster and Leinster.
Sunday will also be mainly dry day with sunny spells. Temperatures will be around 10°C in moderate southwesterly winds backing southeasterly.
Sunday night will be cloudy with scattered outbreaks of rain.
Looking towards next week, it will be cloudy on Monday morning with outbreaks of rain. The rain will turn persistent for a time as a weather front crosses the country. The rain will clear away eastwards during the afternoon with sunny spells developing, except in the southeast where the front will not clear until evening time.
Tuesday and the rest of next week will be mild overall with a mixture of dry spells and some rain, drizzle and fog.
In beef management notes this week, we take a look at scour vaccination in spring-calving suckler cows, tightening the calving spread in autumn-calving cows, and some helpful tips on grazing kale.
In dairy management, Aidan Brennan looks at managing cows in sheds, soil sampling, and asks where your cash is going.
Sheep specialist Darren Carty covers early lambing ewes, breeding in hill sheep flocks, and grazing catch crops.
And in tillage management, tillage editor Andy Doyle covers the options facing growers in relation to handling volunteer vegetation and catch crops.
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