Bye-bye sunshine! Rain and wind set to hit for the weekend

It couldn't last.

Many of us woke up today to a very different morning than the gloriously sunny ones we've become accustomed to. Sadly, it seems we can expect a bad weekend weather-wise. Met Éireann is forecasting a cloudy day today with "scattered outbreaks of rain, locally heavy, with a risk of thundery downpours," though it shouldn't be too chilly - temperatures could get to between 15 and 18 degrees. Tomorrow should be a little better, with dry and bright start to the day and sunshine in places. There'll be some lingering rain in Ulster and north Leinster and a new band of rain will hit the south west coast by mid-morning. It'll be windy and we can expect top temperatures of 14 to 17 degrees. For Sunday, we're set for a mix of sunshine and showers, though it's set to get cloudier and windier throughout the day. Inevitably, people on Twitter have been mourning the loss of the Irish summer.  

Well that's the Irish summer weather over for the year now ☔️ on the up side. . . that's the car washed ? #winning #irishsummer #niweather

— Stephen Coney (@steveyconey) May 12, 2017

12 days of complete ☀️ shine now the rain is back. Irish weather resumes ?

— EddyRio5 (@Eddyri05) May 12, 2017

Rain, okay which one of yous was complaining it was getting a bit 'warm'. #irishweather

— Elaine Dempsey (@11moules) May 12, 2017

Watching Irish weather go back to its gloomy self like: pic.twitter.com/z1rBbpVQeQ

— Seán Murphy (@ReelFada) May 11, 2017

I enjoyed seeing the good weather through the office windows ... some summer we had #Irishweather #OfficeTan

— Colin Doyle (@Doyle15Colin) May 11, 2017

  RIP summer 2017.