Parts of the country woke up to a dusting of snow this morning and there are some great farming pictures doing the rounds on social media.
Yesterday, Met Eireann issued a yellow snow-ice weather warning for Leinster and Ulster with accumulations possible of 1 to 3cm locally.
And, the cold weather is forecast to continue over the weekend and into next week.
Tomorrow Saturday is promised to be a cold, bright and dry day in many areas, with good sunshine and moderate northwest to north winds.
Sunday will be another cold day and there will be a frosty start in eastern areas.
Paul Hyland tweeted this photo of his cows in the snow this morning.
No bother getting in Oad ladies pic.twitter.com/XWideMiN73
— Paul Hyland (@Hylo67) March 4, 2016
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Lorna Sixsmith, calf rearer and writer, is wondering where spring is with all the snow.
Where's spring? #snow https://t.co/RG2laqbAM9 pic.twitter.com/naeOJdRq2s
— Lorna Sixsmith (@IrishFarmerette) March 4, 2016
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Peter Farrell, a dairy farmer and 2016 Nuffield Scholar, has had to bring his ‘girls’ back into the shed because of the inclement weather.
Back to the shed girls pic.twitter.com/Bwahp03iZW
— Peter Farrell (@farmerfarrell) March 4, 2016
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Ear to the Ground’s Helen Carroll tweeted this great shot of the heavy snowfall in Kilkenny this morning.
Getting pretty heavy in Kilkenny now #sneachta pic.twitter.com/T97wtFgR1Q
— Helen Carroll (@MsHelenCarroll) March 4, 2016
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Young Farmer of the Year 2007, Bryan Daniels is asking who ordered snow this morning!
Who ordered snow for this morning ? pic.twitter.com/e3lPjHkVMi
— Bryan Daniels (@bryanjdaniels) March 4, 2016
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Philip O Faolain sent us in these great photos of the snow where he lives in Ballinvreena, Co. Limerick.
Judging by these pictures, this area of south Limerick received a good fall of snow.
It’s also snowing over in the UK, with Welsh farmer Huw Llandre tweeting this photo of his sheep.
“Nice lambing weather #not,” he tweeted.
Nice lambing weather #not pic.twitter.com/IiTQtBfgcL
— Huw Llandre (@Llandre) March 4, 2016
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