Met Éireann has played down reports that the tail end of Hurricane Charley is set to hit Irish shores over the next few days.
But a spokesman for the meteorological service said that the remnants of the hurricane, which has killed 22 people in the United States, will be interacting with another weather system over the Atlantic at the weekend to bring unsettled weather on Sunday and Monday.
He forecast high winds and heavy rain across many parts of the country.
The death toll caused by Hurricane Charley in Florida rose to 22, US government officials said today.
Charley, the strongest storm to hit Florida in a dozen years, hit the southwest coast last Friday with winds of up to 145 mph, demolishing mobile home parks and damaging tens of thousands of buildings.
About 388,000 people remain without power in the state.
The new death toll, which rose by three, was issued by the Florida Division of Emergency Management. In addition to the 22 dead in Florida, the storm killed five people in the Caribbean.
Local officials had initially expected many more dead, particularly because of the widespread damage to many mobile home parks in Charlotte County.
Thousands of people were left homeless by the storm, and officials said 2,626 were still in shelters by today. Many others had found refuge with relatives and friends, or in hotels.