Weather forecast

Tonight will see most areas stay dry with a few patches of drizzle and fog.

According to Met Éireann there will be some frost locally under longer clear breaks.

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Lowest temperatures 1-6°C, coldest across the north and east.

Tomorrow, Friday, will be a brighter day with a mix of sunny spells and some cloudier intervals.

The odd spot of drizzle is possible, mainly for along Atlantic coasts. Again relatively mild with highest temperatures of 8-11°C.

In the news

  • The average dry matter digestibility for 2018 across pitted silage cuts analysed by Glanbia was 70%.
  • Mountrath Mart announced on Wednesday this week that it would close with immediate effect after 51 years trading, leaving farmers shocked.
  • The Scottish Government has announced it will bring forward legislation this year requiring abattoirs to have CCTV in all areas where live animals are present.
  • An east Clare-based project has received €1m in departmental and European funding to turn scrub-like rushes on farmlands into a biomass product, known as biochar.
  • The Irish Farmers Journal understands that some 80,400t of skim milk powder (SMP) were sold out of EU intervention stocks on Tuesday 8 January.

    • Coming up this Friday

  • See what this weekend’s weather holds as the first of the closed periods for slurry spreading comes to an end in Zone A.