Met Éireann has today (Friday, November 6) issued a Status Yellow weather warning for fog for large parts of the country.

The dense fog is expected to affect all of Leinster, Munster and Co. Galway.

The weather warning takes effect at 10:00 tonight (Friday) and will remain in place until 10:00a.m tomorrow Saturday.

As a result, Met Éireann has advised that there could be poor visibility and hazardous travelling conditions.

Weather for weekend

Meanwhile, in general it will be cloudy or overcast for the rest of today (Friday) with patchy outbreaks of rain and drizzle, heavier at times across parts of Leinster and southeast Munster.

It will be cool with highest temperatures of 8°C to 12°, in just a light north-easterly or variable breeze.

Patches of drizzle will affect the country early tonight with more general rain affecting the north and northeast later.

Mist and fog will form in near calm, especially across Munster and Leinster.

The fog will become dense across the southern half of the country with impaired visibility.

Lowest temperatures will range from 2° to 9°, coldest where any clearer breaks occur at length.

There will be widespread mist and fog at first on Saturday with poor visibility, especially across Leinster and Munster.

The fog will very gradually clear during the morning but will possibly linger in places.

Dull and damp for a time across the north, north-east and the north-midlands with scattered rain and drizzle.

However, the day will slowly improve with bright or sunny spells developing.

It will be cool and calm with highest temperatures of 7° to 11°.

On Saturday night, most areas will be dry on Saturday night but isolated showers will occur in parts of Ulster and Connacht.

It will be a foggy night with light winds and lowest temperatures of 2° to 6°.It will be a foggy morning on Sunday, with fog lingering in some areas into the afternoon.

It will be a largely dry day with light easterly or variable winds and highest temperatures of 7° to 11°.Sunday night is expected to be a dry night with fog setting in across much of the country again, except in the south-west where a moderate to fresh easterly wind will develop and cloud will build.

Lowest temperatures will range from 2° to 6°.

Outlook for next week

Fog will lift during Monday morning and most areas will stay dry with a mix of cloud and sunny spells, although outbreaks of rain will develop in the south-west towards the evening.

Breezier than recent days with a moderate to fresh easterly wind. Highest temperatures will range from 8° to 12°.Tuesday looks set to bring a dry and bright start over the northern half of the country.

Dull and damp conditions in the southwest will slowly spread northwards through the day.

Highest temperatures of 9° to 14° are expected in moderate to fresh east to south-east winds.