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THE FROSTY WEATHER is set to continue over the weekend with temperatures dropping -1 degrees tonight.
Today will be mostly dry and bright throughout the day but clouds are expected to move in from the north with patchy drizzle affecting northern and northwestern areas later.
Temperatures will rise to seven degrees during the day but will drop as low as -1 tonight.
Patchy rain and drizzle will hit the country tonight in the north and west. The Midlands, south and east will see dry spells with frost and ice.
The frost, ice and any mist will clear tomorrow morning. It will be cloudier than today but less cold than recent days with highest temperatures of up to 10 degrees.
Most areas will remain dry with some sunny spells expected.
Met Éireann says it will stay mostly dry and calm on Sunday with light northwest breezes. While temperatures will hit up to 11 degrees during the day, it will be a cold night with a touch of frost.
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Bald, high blood pressure, type A blood, 65 years old, no haircut, I’m a gonner.
@john howard: If you are bald, what haircut were you expecting to get?
@john howard: On the bright side, the rest of us have to wash our hair after going to the chemist. You get to save time there!
I’ll stop reading the Journal so.
Fascinating research, who would have thought… having serious cardiovascular condition increases your risk when contracting another serious condition.
@Konrad KA:
Can’t control mine, in my 12th combination of drugs. On the plus side I had my BCG and I’m Rhesus Negative
So have I got this right? People with high blood pressure might run out of their necessary medication because they’re reluctant to go out and expose themselves to the virus?
But going short of them puts you at higher risk.
So it makes sense to get what you need – even if it means asking the chemist or the Guards to drop your blood pressure pills off for you to save you going out.
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