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Updated 1.34 PM
MET ÉIREANN HAS upgraded its weather warning from yellow to orange in a number of counties and predicted gusts of up to 90km/h this afternoon.
The weather warning for the counties of Wexford, Galway, Mayo, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Waterford was issued in the past couple of hours.
The southwest winds will strengthen tonight with gust of up to 120km/h possible in coastal areas.
The severe winds are expected to continue into tonight and tomorrow and will remain until Tuesday when they will calm.
Rain is expected to accompany the winds in the southwest of the country with rain turning to heavy possibly thundery showers in the afternoon. The last of the showers will clear the east coast later this evening.
High seas could trigger some coastal flooding according to Met Éireann who also say that South to southeast gales or strong gales will develop on all Irish coastal waters and on the Irish Sea today.
The thundery downpours may lead to local spot flooding inland also.
AA Roadwatch say that motorists should avoid Sally Gap and Roundwood due to a serious risk of ice with strong cross-winds reported on the M8 Dublin to Cork Road between Fermoy and Rathcormack.
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Statistically studies show the pub is the safest place to be……..
Ah Seamus, the 1950 is the best place for you. Poor joke
Seamus put your bottom lip over your head and swallow !! Your a fool slagging women her joke was actually funny yours on the other hand was ridiculous
And the garage is the best place for you amongst the other tools haha!
Good woman Suzanne
Bit Irish ok where do you get you statistical information from my I ask
The pub obviously…
Tell that to the people in Glasgow!
Joseph that comment uncalled for fool !
Well Jospeh, your attempt at humour appeared to crash and burn.
Crash and burn? No pun intended, im sure?
less typing Cliona and more cooking
Youre in fire today Cliona!
Youre on fire today Cliona!
Yeah me and the cooker………
I am well able to multi task Mr.Bland
whats on the tele ?? Dust! … dust indeed away with ya
Whats on your bed? Dust? Same as your boxers!
Nah, thats crust.
Having paused and pondered,you are absolutely correct,Alas i am barred from every pub in the 31 counties of Ireland.
@Turatillad31 Wow! On snooping through your neighbour’s mail or neighbours’ brother’s friend (everybody is everybody’s neighbour right?), you discovered they were making 6000 American dollars over an undisclosed period of time? Good on ya’. As it happens, I too have been trying to pay off the department on my house for as log as I can remember. Yet at last my money problems are seemingly solved! Can’t wait to flash my millions! You the best! Mwah, mwah! Hugs and kisses! XXXXXXX THANK YOU SO MUCH! YOU THE BEST!
Ah great! The spambot’s comment disappeared and now I can’t help but feel a little silly…… let us not be too harsh with the dislikes now (they only make me stronger)…………
Except in Scotland.
I knew there would be payback for the amazing summer we had…
Great knockers laura
Have to agree with u on that pal
Anon, so you are into sexual harassment but against slagging off women?
Nicely put Declan
declan anon has problems but you need councilling too if i remember
Steven- pot calling the kettle black.
Blame HAARP……
A great day to take the kite out.
Cheap flight to the Uk though!
Looks like rain Ted.
Roll on the summer , when the rain gets warmer !
Getting sick of this weather now.
It’s brutal in kildare! And please ‘looks like rain Ted’ is no longer a funny comment!
Thank you Ciara that comment “looks like Ted” does my nut in
+10 Viara
Stupid phone! *Ciara
Thanks for sharing that link Ru. It’s cool!!
Once it doesn’t flood in championship Dublin, it doesn’t really matter
Typical coming from a manc!!!
Mate, the absolute pointlessness of the statement, and dire lack of empathy therin, are abundant in equal parts. Don’t have too much spare time for trolling myself. Carry on.
Hopefully it does in your area finglas just enough to wash you out with the tide . Have a nice day now
Thats the worst insult you could ever call me. A disgusting Manchester United supporter. Unt are filth. Its David DE Moyes.
Not going to happen Kurt/Barry White/ steo Motley. Finglas is at the top of a great big hill. All water just rolls down to cabra and castle knock.
Don’t get cross petal..
Ha. Popular chap.
Just what lahinch need…..
Clothes in off the line.
CODE RED, I REPEAT CODE RED
A bigger puddle Dublin??…
My god a bigger puddle they should apply for aid now
North Strand Dublin flooded !!!!!!!!!
http://irishphotoarchive.photoshelter.com/image/I0000naUI.0koxCw
Sea coming over the wall in Clontarf just now.
All the yuppie tractors in Dublin might actually serve their purpose if the weather continues…
Kurt Barlow back with a new account?? Why can the score/journal not ban this pathetic troll? I starting to feel sorry for the boy
Your some bellend Meade lol
Son’s in Toronto and he said it was -29 yesterday, government was advising people not to stay out for longer than ten minutes.
Stay safe all.
Not a gust in tallaght yet
Tallfornia = kip
Tallaght itself is lovely with amazing people. Tallifornia on the other hand….
Higgins wanks dogs Higgins has a black dog
Can’t even get the joke name correct, Head Wrecker. Sap.
Some might say the same about finglas were your from even though there’s some nice parts where some of my mates live
This here “polar vortex” [the in thing right now] is pushing the Jet Stream south so we can expect more of this weather for a while .Or it could get worse. This vortex was over Northern Europe last year, it move around a bit :-)
Indeed Aunty, and climatologists say that ice melt in the arctic and the effects on air temperature are to blame for shifting the jet stream – see this explainer:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/25/frozen-spring-arctic-sea-ice-loss
Guardian writer Alexander White beclowns himself by using a paid PR firm as a factual source for climate. Good innit
Ahh the polar vortex. One of my all time favourite Christmas movie. Tom hanks is only amazing in it. ALL ABOARD.
Aunty the article I linked to was written by the Guardian’s Environment Editor, not Alexander White – as every you avoid dealing with the facts and the science! An independent study of media reporting found huge anti-global warming bias – they did not find any bias with the Guardian.
http://marine.rutgers.edu/~francis/pres/Francis_Vavrus_2012GL051000_pub.pdf
Scientific paper Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather
in mid-latitudes (arctic amplification refers to fact that the arctic is warming through climate change much faster that other areas of the planet)
That’s why ecoloons get stuck in ice, warming causes ice.
aunty simmonite there is climate change. the question is if its man made or not? no one really knows.
It could be the americans. their jealous of our crops
Beautiful sunny day in Clondalkin got a heap of washing dry happy days
Clondalkin…. Another kip
All the tack suits and pyjama bottoms are spotless.
Diarmuid,
Best comment of the day.
Is it gonna b bad in waterford
It’s always bad in Waterford.
Can someone tel me is it gonna b bad
Read the article .
Daviddemoyes , Robert Allen and gushingallover spot the connection ????
Thank you for spotting the obvious connection that David has for me .
At least we will save on fuel just put your umbrella up and Mary poplins it to work tomorrow…
It’s all lies. Nothin happening out there
Hopefully it stays that way! Though they’re throwing them orange alerts around with alarming frequency these days, people will stop paying attention completely!
It’s not lies, the buoys west of Ireland are showing a huge swell – flooding with the morning tide is very likely.
Nothing like the storm that’s brewing in Limerick the city of culture ?
High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program(HAARP)
THE US IS USING A HAARP WEATHER WEAPON AGAINST IRELAND AS PUNSIHMENT FOR MICHEAL MARTINS EXPULSION OF THE ISREALI ABASSADOR IN 2009
That’s why I’m wearing a tinfoil hat :p Seriously, other countries are having it a lot worse than Ireland – people have been killed in the UK and the US is getting temperatures of -20 and lower.
It was actually a beautiful evening in the Dingle Peninsula (but I know a storm is coming)
Video: The Dingle Peninsula on the eve of a storm:
http://youtu.be/YI0wuAtEaIU
Beautiful Sunset : http://on.fb.me/1bJ5WQd
Is this man in league with the divil ?
“Piers Corbyn, managing director of WeatherAction is offering their October forecasts at half price due to “imminent extreme events in Britain, Ireland, EU and USA”. But other long range forecasters are bleak as well, like Vantage Weather:
“We are looking at a potentially paralysing winter, the worst for decades, which could at times grind the nation to a halt.”
WHERES BARLOW????!!!!
always makes me greatful i’ve got an appartment at the top of the elyssium
What a depressing dump of a country
my roomate’s aunt got paid $18116 last month. she is making income on the laptop and bought a $333100 condo. All she did was get blessed and put in action the information made clear on this site —————————– Jumℙ26.ℭOM
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