Another cold snap is on the cards as forecasters warn that temperatures could dip to -10 in some parts of the country this week.
The Government Task Force on Emergency Planning is to meet tomorrow morning in light of the adverse weather forecast.
“Disruptive accumulations of snow” are expected throughout the week, with the east and southeast to be the worst affected.
The regional forecast suggests that Monday will be largely dry, with the chance of an “isolated snow flurry later in the day.”
The cold weather begins to take hold on Monday night, with temperatures dipping to -3 degrees.
Met Éireann forecaster Joanna Donnelly says that Ireland could possibly see a red level warning “depending on the nature of the showers that come our way.”
“These snow showers, unlike the showers we’ve become accustomed to this winter, won’t wash away because the air is mostly dry… they won’t melt either because temperatures are going to be very, very cold,” she explained on RTÉ.
“These extreme cold conditions are going to stay right through the week because we’ve got a blocking high, a firmly situated anti-cyclone up across Scandinavia and it’s feeding a south-east/easterly airflow up over Ireland.”
“We need to keep an eye on elderly neighbours, relatives and friends to make sure everybody’s stocked up this week,” she added.