Sunshine and showers are forecast for Donegal - with thunderstorms not ruled out

Met Éireann have warned there may be thunderstorms in Donegal, today, Saturday, on a typically changeable spring day.

It'll be fairly windy today with a mix of sunshine and showers. The showers will be most widespread and heaviest in the morning and early afternoon, some of hail and still a little sleet likely over hills and mountains for a time. There'll be a few isolated thunderstorms too.

The showers will become less widespread in many areas through the afternoon, with more in the way of sunny spells, but there'll still be plenty of showers in northern parts. Highest temperatures of 6 to 9 or 10 degrees, but feeling colder in fresh to strong and gusty northwest winds, reaching near gale force for a time in some western and northern coastal parts.

Still breezy for a time tonight with clear spells and further scattered showers, but the showers will tend to die away overnight and the moderate to fresh and gusty northwest winds will ease. Cloud will start to increase into the southwest and west later in the night. Lowest temperatures of 0 to 5 degrees, with some frost likely.

Dry in many areas for a time tomorrow, Sunday, with some spells of sunshine in the midlands, north and east. However, cloud will be building in from the west, with rain slowly spreading up from the southwest into the rest of Munster, Connacht and parts of south Leinster through the morning and afternoon. The rain will then gradually extend northeastwards to most parts in the evening, though it'll hold dry in some northern parts for the day. Highest afternoon temperatures of 8 to 11 degrees with mostly light variable breezes for a time, gradually becoming mostly moderate south to southeasterly but freshening in the west and southwest.