Met Eireann has issued status orange low temperature and ice warnings for the next two nights as the temperatures are set to plummet to as low as -8 degrees celcius.
The warning takes in most parts of the country, including Laois and the surrounding counties.
In fact, only four counties have escaped, with Donegal, Dublin, Louth and Wexford each on status yellow warnings.
The first Status Orange warning will come into effect for 22 counties from 8pm tonight, Tuesday, January 7, and will last until at least Thursday morning at 8am.
Laois and the rest of the country have been told to expect “extremely cold” conditions “with widespread severe frost, ice and lying snow.”
The national forecaster has warned that caution should be exercised.
Laois along with much of the south of the country has been under the orange weather warning since the weekend with the cold snap set to drag on.
A number of schools around the county have been forced to close as driving conditions are simply too hazardous.
Under Status Orange alerts, people are urged to “be prepared” as weather conditions have the capacity to “impact significantly” on people in affected areas.
Met Éireann says that the issuing of an Orange level alert implies that “all people in the affected areas should prepare themselves in an appropriate way” and check any activities they may “delay or cancel as appropriate”.
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