Siberian winds bring increased chance of snow over weekend

Heavy snowfall may arrive to Ireland next week as Met Éireann predict a cold snap like the 'Beast from the East' three years ago which left  Macroom and surrounding areas lie under a blanket of thick snow. File picture: John Delea.

A “significant” amount of snow and ice is to come this weekend and expected to carry on into the following week as a weather front from Siberia comes to Ireland.

Met Éireann has said that the start of next week will be "bitterly cold and wintry" with temperatures in Cork expected to fall to minus-2 degrees.