Sunscreen at the ready.

After a dull old week of cloud and drizzle, Met Éireann is predicting blue skies and sunshine for the June bank holiday weekend.

While today, Thursday, will be cloudy at first with a few showers, it will become drier and brighter through the afternoon with spells of sunshine developing.

By Friday, we might finally feel a blast of summer with “high pressure firmly in charge” and settled and mainly dry weather throughout. Sunshine will turn a little hazy later in the afternoon with highest temperatures of 16 to 20 degrees.

Cloudy☁️ & breezy to start this morning with scattered showers🌦️.

It will brighten up through the afternoon as the showers die out & sunny spells break through🌤️.

Highs🌡️ of 12 to 17°C, warmest in the southeast, with moderate northwest winds🍃 easing later on. pic.twitter.com/lUWKw5MI5s

— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) May 30, 2024

Saturday will be fine and dry with plenty of long sunny spells and highest temperatures of 16 to 20 degrees, warmest across Munster and south Leinster.

On Sunday, the latest models would suggest that high pressure will remain bringing plenty of dry and sunny weather throughout and temperatures of up to 21 degrees.