Tomorrow is set to be a milder day with highest temperatures between 7 and 11 degrees
The alert will kick in early tomorrow morning at 5am, expiring five hours later at 10am, affecting predominantly the midlands and east of the country.
It will apply to counties Cavan, Monaghan, Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath and Wicklow.
Among the dangers of the warning flagged by the national forecaster are treacherous travel conditions and poor visibility.
However, warmer weather is on the way as we head into the weekend – while damp and windy weather is also forecast.
Next week is then set to be drier and brighter to start.
Tonight will be wet and breezy start with widespread rain and moderate to fresh southerly winds.
The rain will clear eastwards to scattered showers later.
The lowest temperatures will drop to between 1 to 5 degrees, a little colder in the midlands, with a touch of frost possible.
Saturday will be largely dry to start with any fog slowly clearing to sunny spells and scattered showers.
It will turn cloudier through the day with patchy rain and drizzle slowly developing in the west and southwest.
It will be a milder day with highest temperatures of 7 to 11 degrees.
Saturday evening will be wet and blustery with widespread outbreaks of rain, turning heavy in places with lowest temperatures of between 2 to 7 degrees.
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7-day weather forecast: November 17th to 23rd
Sunday will be a wet and rather windy day with rain continuing for most and fresh to strong and gusty westerly winds.
It will be drier in Munster with showers and sunny spells.
The highest temperatures will be between 6 to 10 degrees.The evening will see rain gradually sink southwards on Sunday night, with showers and clear spells following by morning.
Lowest temperatures will range between 3 to 6 degrees with northwest winds decreasing light to moderate.
Monday will be dry and bright with sunny spells and isolated light showers. Its highest temperatures will range between 6 to 10 degrees in moderate north to northwest winds.
Tuesday will be another generally dry and bright day with sunshine and the chance of just the odd light shower. There will be highest temperatures of 5 to 9 degrees.
Looking ahead to later in the week there is expected to be more unsettled and milder conditions for the latter half of the week with spells of rain likely.
