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Updated at 2pm
MET ÉIREANN HAS issued a status yellow snow-ice warning for 21 counties.
The warning is in place for all of Connacht, Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Wicklow, Offaly, Westmeath, Meath, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary.
Met Éireann has said that there will be snowfall of up to 3cm tonight and tomorrow night, especially on high ground.
The icy conditions are forecasted to hit parts of Munster between 7am and 4pm, and parts of Leinster, Connacht and Ulster from 4pm onwards.
The warning is valid from 7am tomorrow morning until 6am on Friday morning.
The Road Safety Authority is advising drivers and other road users to be especially vigilant over the next few days, and to keep an eye out for black ice on the roads.
Although the RSA is advising people to avoid unnecessary journeys, they’ve issued advice for those who have to travel in snowy or icy conditions:
Outlook for coming days
The cold and wet conditions will persist over the coming days, turning stormy on Saturday.
Speaking of today’s weather, Met Éireann said:
“Some showers will be heavy, leading to accumulations of snow on mountains and at times to lower levels. The showers will be most frequent in the north and west and down through the midlands.
The showers will become isolated to the coasts of Ulster and north Connacht tonight, with temperatures dropping as low as -3 degrees.
It’s expected to be a foggy and frosty morning tomorrow. While most of the country will remain largely dry, thicker cloud will build from early on in the southwest with outbreaks of rain throughout the morning.
The rain will spread throughout Munster and Connacht during the afternoon and Leinster in the evening. Temperatures are to drop to zero degrees and snow is expected to fall throughout the night.
Friday will, again, be a cold and wet day with widespread rain expected. Once again, there’ll be spells of sleet and snow mixed in with the rain. Temperatures will be between 3 and 7 degrees.
Stormy conditions will move in across the country on Saturday. Strong southwest winds are forecast during the morning.
Met Éireann is warning of a chance of gale force winds over the Midlands, as an area of low-pressure tracks directly over the country.
The strong winds will be accompanied by heavy rain and snow. The northern half of the country is expected to be the worst affected.
Temperatures on Saturday will be between 5 and 7 degrees in the north and 9 to 11 degrees in the south.
- With reporting from Gráinne Ní Aodha.
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Why the hell would relatives refuse to let them move if the HSE are doing it for safey reasons. Bet they wouldn’t care for the fire fighters having to enter the building in an event of a fire.
Because its seen as an excuse to close the facility permanently-a lot more to this story than whats in the article
This is par for the course for years.. underfund a community hospital to the point where it’s both unsafe and not viable to repair it and then shut it down. These faults didn’t happen yesterday. Years of neglect.
HSE transparency…if this doesnt work to close the place permanently then they will call in the big guns…the “independent and impartial” HIQA.
They paint the building upgraded the parking new entrances parking meters (not used) its like the Guinness Ad Putting the Cart before the Horse you would think that they would start on the inside and work out to the ( road) It certainly wort a bet it will never open again The H S E H have no heart Watch this space
Whats the bet, that the hospital wont re-open due to other issues discovered with the electrical work.
And how come it will take 5 months to do the work, is there only one electrician being hired?
I’m for the life of me trying to work out what exactly would take five months. An entire housing estate wouldn’t take that and it’s not as if the nursing home wouldn’t have the “ground work” already done such as walls chased etc.. There’s something else going on here.
oh PLEASE!! the HSE care about vulnerable patients……there is certainly an agenda here and it is most certainly not for the good of the patients…..5 months to fix electrical work!!! the same crowd that has minimum entry ( if that) looking after vulnerable people and some dont even have functional english!!!
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