Although it is a little warmer today, it's not time to abandon your winter jacket just yet.

Met Éireann are reporting that cold, wintery conditions are on the way for the rest of this week from Wednesday and if you missed out on a white Christmas, it's payback time.

They are forcecasting: "For Wednesday night and the rest of the week it will be bitterly cold as a strong and blustery Northwest airflow becomes established over the country. It will be windy with frequent wintry showers giving falls of sleet and snow and accumulations of several cms of snow are likely in many areas, particularly in the North and West. 

For the rest of the week, Met Éireann state that: "Thursday night and for Friday the wintry showers will become confined more to exposed Northern and Western parts with more in the way of winter sunshine coming through. It will stay very cold with wind-chill. Daytime temperatures 4 to 6 degrees at best and nights will be at freezing or several degrees below with frost and ice. 

"Over the weekend, it will continue very cold as the airflow turns Northerly. Wintry showers will continue, mainly in exposed Northern and Western areas with good spells of sunshine and severe frosts and icy roads by night."

And we thought that the winter was gone...