After a very wet month of March and a wet and windy start to April there will be a change in weather conditions early next week as pressure strengthens across Ireland. Over the past number of days confidence is growing with a more settled spell of weather with a increasing chance of sunnier conditions by mid week next week.

A ridge of high pressure will strengthen over Scandinavia extending southwest into Ireland and the UK with a south to southeasterly airflow developing around Tuesday next week with the current European and American weather models keeping the weather mostly dry until at least next weekend. This should also allow good sunny spells to develop at times from Tuesday onwards.

It will not be totally dry during the week with a few isolated showers still possible in some places but for much of Ireland there will be very little rain during next week which will allow the heavy saturated ground to dry up a little.

Temperatures early next week and midweek could climb as high as 19C in some places with the western half of Ireland warmest.