Weather goes from mild to wild and back with balmy start to New Year

IRELAND’S weather is going from mild to wild and back to mild — and a balmy 12C (54F) New Year’s Eve will greet revellers tomorrow as temperatures warmer than April usher in 2012.

This festive week’s weather rollercoaster saw Christmas Day’s record 14.4C temperature followed by 125kmh storms, closed bridges and pounding waves on Wednesday in parts of the country — and then yesterday a pleasant 11C.

But the good news for party-goers is that tomorrow will see a balmy day and night reach as high as 12C by day and 9C after dark — warmer than April’s average Dublin daytime peak temperature of 11.4C, and night time’s usual 4.8C minimum.