Snow showers have arrived in parts of Donegal as winds from Storm Jake pick up.
The image is showing up snow in red in Donegal, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Derry, and Antrim in the past hour.
The radar images – showing sleet in green – was released by BBC weather presenter Barra Best.
Met Eireann has issued two weather warnings for Donegal with 3cms expected overnight.
Parts of the south and east of the county have seen snow falls in the past hour. There have been sleet showers in Buncrana and Moville and snow in higher areas of Inishowen.
In the North it is snowing on Glenshane Pass and there is heavy snow in Belfast. A YELLOW status snow warning is in place for Donegal until 9am.
Winds from Storm Jake will pick up overnight.
Met Eireann has issued a status ORANGE weather alert for Donegal.
Westerly winds, veering northwest, will increase to mean speeds of 65 to 75km/h with gusts of 110 to 130km/h overnight in exposed areas with high seas also.
The warning is in place until 8am.
Details of Storm Jake:
A depression in the Atlantic to the south of Iceland will track eastwards to the North of Ireland tonight and become complex. A small low pressure centre or trough is expected to cross northern parts of Ireland and will sustain a very strong core of winds over the southern two thirds of the country, producing a storm force gradient in western and southern sea areas and an orange status wind warning has been issued for coastal counties of the north, west and south.
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