More ravaging rain in store as new forecast dashes hopes of dry Easter week

New weather models show an increase in expected rainfall for next week as previous predictions of an ease in damp weather are quashed, though with the rain will come higher temperatures.

However, while the rain has gone hand-in-hand with a numbing coldness in the last few days, with snowfall seen in Cork and Kerry on Wednesday, next week's forecast offers some mercy by way of significantly warmer temperatures.READ MORE: River Island knocks €65 off stunning dress that will turn heads at any spring or summer wedding

Although less rain than we have seen this week, O'Reilly says, next week's rainfall still looks ready to rise rather than give way to more settled conditions as earlier models suggested.Here is another chart, this time demonstrating rainfall for Ireland at midday next Wednesday, April 3. Met Éireann is predicting a frosty morning with rain spreading over Ulster and North Leinster which might turn sleety in some areas, with more rain later on in South Leinster.Met Éireann's daily weather breakdown:Cold and frosty for some this morning with outbreaks of rain spreading over Ulster and north Leinster, turning to sleet or snow in places before clearing this evening. Another spell of rain will develop in south Leinster in the afternoon.

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