Friday

Friday will be a dry day, with widespread sunshine. Highest temperatures generally of 12°C to 16°C.

By night, Friday will stay dry, with clear spells. Colder than recent nights, with lowest temperatures of 0°C to 3°C.

Saturday

Saturday will be another dry day, with good spells of sunshine. Highest temperatures of 10°C to 13°C, coolest along the north and east coasts due to a light north to northeast breeze.

Saturday night will be dry with clear spells, but cloud will increase in the northwest towards morning. Some patches of mist and fog will develop. Lowest temperatures of 0°C to 4°C.

Sunday

Sunshine in many places early on Sunday, but cloud in the northwest will gradually build southeastwards through the morning.

Rain will develop in the northwest later in the morning and will extend across the northern half of the country during the afternoon and possibly further south into the evening.

Afternoon temperatures will range 8°C to 13°C, but it will gradually become much colder from the northwest during the evening, so some falls of sleet will be possible in Ulster then.

It will be a breezy day too, with fresh and gusty west to northwest winds developing.

Sunday night will be cold and breezy.

It will start off mostly cloudy, with outbreaks of rain, sleet and potentially snow in Ulster.

Overnight, most areas will become dry and clear, but wintry showers will persist in the north and northwest.

Lowest temperatures of -2°C to 2°C, with fresh to strong and gusty northerly winds.

Monday

Monday will be cold and breezy with sunny spells and scattered wintry showers, these mainly over the northern half of the country.

Afternoon temperatures will only reach around 3°C to 7°C and there will be an added wind chill in fresh and gusty northwesterly winds.

It will stay cold on Monday night, but winds will be lighter so frost will develop in places.

There will be a mix of clear spells and scattered wintry showers, mainly in the north and west. Lowest temperatures of -2°C to 2°C.

Management notes

Tillage

There has been a lot of spring planting done, but waiting for good seedbed conditions becomes increasingly important as we move later in the year, writes Andy Doyle.

Sheep

The inclement weather forecast, including wintry showers and fluctuations in temperature, is likely to increase the risk of grass tetany for ewes under nutritional stress and increasing milk yield, writes Darren Carty.

Beef

Adam Woods takes a look at coccidiosis in calves, keeping calved cows right if turnout is delayed and some advice on fertiliser for grazing.

Dairy

Aidan Brennan goes through what farmers should be doing in advance of the breeding season and gives fertiliser advice for silage ground.