Drizzle, rain, or lashing: what’s the weather like where you are now?

"Cloudy today with outbreaks of rain, heavy in bursts, across Leinster, Connacht and Ulster, with accumulations leading to local spot flooding, especially in Ulster…" that's what Met Eireann has to say about today – after a gloriously sunny Friday got everyone's hopes up for a cracker of a weekend.

And most folk will indeed be right now looking out at rainy, cloudy skies.

Ugh poxy rain pic.twitter.com/XgOzZFrs6D

— Sheila O Regan (@sheilaoregan) August 23, 2015

Met Eireann has already issued a weather warning, which will stay in effect until 6pm.

And forecaster Pat Clarke has warned us to expect thunder and plenty of downpours: "Friday was pretty warm and was around 22C in some places, but that won't be repeated again over the weekend." 

Very wet in many areas at times today, with some intense or thundery downpours in places and local spot flooding. High 14 to 18

— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) August 23, 2015

He added that a spell of very heavy rain has already moved across the Irish Sea from Britain, and has now spread across the country.

greeted back in Ireland with rain thnx

— luc (@bubblybathlou) August 23, 2015

"For a lot of the country, it's a fairly wet day," Pat explained, although he did say that "it might pick up in the north-east of the country" this afternoon.