A status yellow rain warning will remain in effect for five counties in Northern Ireland until Wednesday night, with a similar alert for five counties in Leinster having now expired.
As the recent run of mostly dry and sunny weather came to an end, Met Éireann forecast heavy and persistent rain and a chance of spot flooding in Dublin, Wexford, Wicklow, Louth and Meath between 9pm on Tuesday and 2pm today.
A similar UK Met Office advisory is in place for Antrim, Armagh, Down, Tyrone and Derry until 9pm.
Temperatures in Dublin are to fall to six degrees on Wednesday, a sharp contrast to the highs of 20 degrees recorded at the weekend.
“The latest runs of the model shows that the…