Cold start expected in Carlow this morning (Dec 7) with frost and fog patches

A cold start is expected this morning (December 7) with frost, icy stretches and some fog patches. 

Many areas will have a dry day with spells of crisp winter sunshine and highest temperatures of just 2 to 6 degrees in light or moderate northerly breezes. 

It will be mostly dry across Leinster and Munster overnight, but scattered showers will affect Connacht and Ulster, some turning wintry, especially over high ground. 

Widespread frost and ice overnight with lowest temperatures of -4 to zero degrees and some patches of freezing fog developing also.