Rare icy weather phenomenon could cause havoc to audiences travelling to popular RTE show
Ireland is bracing itself for a 'multi weather hazard event'.
Multiple snow and ice warnings could be set to threaten hundreds of audience members travelling to the first episode of Dancing With The Stars.
The weather forecaster revealed that Ireland is set to be hit by a “multi weather hazard event”, which it said could lead to very difficult travelling conditions, travel disruption and delays to public transport, animal welfare issues and difficult conditions underfoot.
Some 240 audience members, cast and 150 crew members are due to travel on Sunday for the first episode of Dancing With The Stars. The studio is based in Liffey Valley in Dublin, which will be under a yellow status snow warning.
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A spokesman for RTE said: “"The safety and wellbeing of our audience, cast and crew is part of our production planning each year."
On Friday, Met Éireann forecaster Gerry Murphy to RTE’s Morning Ireland said temperatures are expected to reach as low as -4C.
"As we go into tomorrow, we will see milder air with a band of rain moving in from the southwest, but because it is going to meet that very cold air as it pushes up across the country through tomorrow evening, tomorrow night into Sunday, it is going to turn to sleet and snow in many areas."
Mr Murphy said as the forecaster gets more "more details on the exact accumulations of that snow, it will give us more information on the exact types of warnings that we will be issuing today and tomorrow."
Regarding possible school closures because of the snow, he said that will not become clear until over the weekend.
Things will only start to clear on Sunday, he added, as temperatures will remain low.
"And then it will be followed by a very sharp frost, so there are likely to be accumulations of snow in places on Monday morning coupled with a very severe frost as well, so there is the possibility that schools may not open, but that will become more apparent as we go through the weekend."
Temperatures will remain low next week, meaning the snow will be slow to melt in place, he added.
While the full extent of the weather incident is still unclear, he said there will be rain, sleet and snow tomorrow night into Sunday, followed by "very cold, very frosty conditions for much of next week".
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