The temperature is currently at the minimum for the day – a very cold -5.3C, down 0.4C in the last hour. The barometer is still climbing slowly and reads 1001.3mb, up 0.25mb in the last hour.
Winds are currently calm; but were strong enough to send the wind chill down to -7.8C at 19:11.
Just looking around the country; Cork airport is a little colder at -6C; but many places are already below -10C. Ballyhaise is currently -12C.
The temperature here has now fallen to -5.4C.
Now -5.5C, down 0.6C in the last hour. Mean temperature for the day is -1.3C, making this the third coldest day of the month so far.
Now -5.6C. All this has taken place over about 6 minutes and the temperature is falling quite rapidly.