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LAST UPDATE | 2 Oct 2019
A STATUS ORANGE wind warning has been issued for six counties as Storm Lorenzo approaches Ireland.
There will be over 50mm of rain in western and northern areas when the storm hits, Met Éireann warned.
The Orange warning – the second most serious that can be issued by Met Éireann – applies to Galway, Mayo, Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick.
Met Éireann said: “Southwesterly winds veering westerly will reach mean speeds 65 to 80km/h with gusts generally of 100 to 130km/h, higher in coastal regions.
Storm surges will produce coastal flooding and damage.
The warning will take effect from 6pm tomorrow evening and apply until 3am on Friday morning.
Met Éireann’s head of forecasting Evelyn Cusack said this afternoon following a meeting of the National Emergency Coordination Group (NECG) that, at this stage, it is not believed that Lorenzo will have to be updated to a red level alert.
“We don’t think so at this stage,” she said. “We’re getting quite close now but our model will update this afternoon and closer to midnight.”
Cusack also urged people to listen to the advice of local authorities.
Some schools may decide to close on Friday as a precautionary measure.
In a statement issued at 4pm, the Department of Education said all schools in the counties where orange warnings have been issued should “remain vigilant”.
“In all events, and if in any doubt, schools and other education settings should err on the side of caution. Schools are empowered to make closure decisions if, in their judgment in the interests of the safety of the school community, it is prudent to do so,” the department said, urging education centres to look out for updates from Met Éireann, local authorities and gardaí, as well as local radio.
Earlier, the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) advised members of the public “not to visit any national parks, national monuments or nature reserves whilst the Status Orange is in place”.
A number of parks including Connemara National Park, Killarney House and Gardens, and Knockma Wood, near Tuam, in Galway will all be closed tomorrow afternoon.
Separately, two Status Yellow warnings have been issued nationwide and will come into effect during the storm.
A Status Yellow rainfall warning applies to the whole country – which will result in some flooding – from 9am tomorrow morning until 9am on Friday morning.
Storm Lorenzo will produce significant swell, high waves and sizeable storm surges, Met Éireann said.
This will lead to wave overtopping, some coastal flooding and damage, especially along western and southern coasts.
Status Orange - Wind warning for Galway, Mayo, Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) October 2, 2019
Valid: Thursday 6 p.m. to Friday 3 a.m.https://t.co/ozrQHtoOkt pic.twitter.com/j2jnYIz085
A Status Yellow wind warning also applies to the whole of the country from 9am tomorrow morning until 6am on Friday morning.
Southeasterly gusts of between 50 km/h and 100 km/h will be experienced across the country but these will be stronger along coastal regions.
Met Éireann has said that because trees are mostly in full leaf with a large surface area, even moderate strength winds can bring down weakened trees or tree limbs.
In addition, some trees may be compromised due to saturated soils at the moment. With more rain forecast with Storm Lorenzo some disruption due to falling trees and branches is likely.
With the potential for falling leaves to block drains and gullies, some surface flooding is possible.
River levels are currently elevated across the country and the rainfall may lead to river flooding, especially in parts of the midlands and west. River levels will continue to rise after Storm Lorenzo has passed.
After the NECG meeting, gardaí warned motorists that driving conditions will be hazardous and asked them to consider their journey if necessary.
The NECC will meet again tomorrow says the minister pic.twitter.com/aRFPtbqScJ
— Christina Finn (@christinafinn8) October 2, 2019
They also warned people not to be tempted by a weather photo opportunity or a selfie along the coast in the conditions.
The ESB, meanwhile, has said that power outages are expected on Thursday evening into Friday morning.
The Defence Forces are also on standby and will be available to help with sandbagging in affected areas.
At this afternoon’s press conference, the chair of the NECG Keith Leonard was asked if people should be stocking up on bottled water and loaves of bread.
He replied: “No, we’re not in that space.”
Our warnings for #Lorenzo have been issued.
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) October 2, 2019
All warnings can be viewed here:https://t.co/ozrQHtoOkt
An explanation of our warning levels can be found here:https://t.co/Cr9ukyJgun
Our Meteorologist's Commentary has been updated and can be viewed here:https://t.co/ktXtWjbfIg pic.twitter.com/QhemlD7hX5
The powerful hurricane has weakened as it crossed the Atlantic but it will still be a strong extra-tropical storm by the time it reaches Irish coasts.
People have been urged to check local weather forecasts and take all necessary precautions ahead of the storm.
With reporting from Cónal Thomas, Christina Finn
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Apple just unveiled a panicked man with no new ideas
“IT’S STILL OFFICIALLY summer”
… Sept 14th
It’s officially summer until September 21st.
And all ye sheep are going to run out and buy em, yet complain about having no money because of the goverment… Doesnt add up
You don’t add up.
Sent from my smart phone.
Shhhh.
If it wasn’t for all the tech junkie early adopters and self esteem purchasing trend chasers, tech would be a lot more expensive for those of us who buy when the increasing need line meets the reducing bug line.
I think its people right to have a say in what they do with THEIR money Noel. Should we just hand over everything we earn and get some food stamps back.
God forbid we should give a shit where our money goes we have smart phones sure what more do we want …..
Trickle feeding us technology, just imagin how far advanced we would be only for the stock market’s.
That’s a chicken and egg thing. The stock market provides the motivation to innovate. The innovations then have to be drip fed to not saturate the market so as not to depress prices so lowering incentive….
“Trickle feeding us technology, just imagin how far advanced we would be”
A monkey with a smartphone is still a monkey
Enjoy your smart phone bud! There are some of us out there who can see beyond the end of our noses!
I’m glad you took the time to prove my point.
Have a banana Tim :-)
Are you sure you can spare one?
Not this week, the stock markets are only drip feeding them on to the market creating demand to maintain their value.
I’ll pick up a few extra later when I go to Aldi.
Tell you what I’ll get my own, you just wouldn’t know where you keep yours! They might be warm.
No I keep them in the fridge along with your sense of humour :-)
Ok if you were only kidding, my point is valid though, the one about the technology not the bananas :-)
Yep but lets find some middle ground here
http://bananaphone.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/banana-phone-3.jpg
What ever next? Touche.
I hate the negative press the Windows 8 gets, personally I love it the kids have no problem with it they are more adaptable to change where as older users just have hisses over the start key missing
It may be great for first time users and kidding particular at it has really simplified the UI. For long time Windows users it is extremely frustrating to navigate around.
Stop being puppets to bill Gates and try linux …. forget itunes and try spotify on your phone for free…
Sent from my ice cream sandwich
Spotify is a rip-off for the artists. They get 0.000001 euro or something ridiculous per song streamed.
It’s still more than the amount they get when people download it illegally.
So who cares
Sandwich that you can send a comment from – cool!!
Serge don’t talk utter shite. Spotify pays record publishers (EMI, Sony etc.) annual fees to have that music available for streaming. It supports the industry because that revenue drives publishers to invest in different music, and musicians get a cut themselves.
Windows 8 proof that consumers will buy any crap going !!
I was firmly against Win8 until my laptop died and I had to buy a new one. Once i got used to the less than user friendly system i quite like it. The charms menu is a nice touch
I’ve a feeling that support and updates are going to be discontinued for the iPhone 4 a lot sooner than was the case for the 3S.
Hooked on credit to buy shiny new baubles might go part of the way to explain it.
The gold iPhone will make it easier to spot an idiot anyway
Any prices for 5S or 5C in Ireland?
The price of looking like an idiot if you buy a 5c, a worse antenna and a worse battery life for the same price as an iPhone 5(which is being taken off the market)
Excellent comeback. I Salute you sir! :)
The iPhone 5 is not been taken off the market. The only iPhone that is being discontinued is the iPhone 4. Apple will now only be offering the iPhone 4s in an 8gb model, then the 5 and so on…
http://www.slashgear.com/iphone-5-discontinued-where-did-they-all-go-12297621/ millions of these articles online now
Nothing compares to a book whose pages you can turn.
Well a book whose pages you can’t turn certainly wouldn’t.
At least the keyboard keys don’t stick like the pages of a magazine
Some of us read books because we want to read the story and not because we’re paper pulp fetishists. For me, ebooks are much more convenient than dead tree books.
I was of that opinion untill I got a kindle, you’ll never turn back ;)
Whats the point of prices in dollars ?
It’s an American article. The PS4 is out here November 29. Not November 15 as that’s the U.S. release date.
New android system sponsored by nestle
Wrong.
What exactly does this latest piece of over-hyped, over-priced, gizmo got that the 4S or 5 doesn’t? Absolutely dada IMHO! Nope, I got that wrong, the 5S – S which presumably stands for “same” as the 5 – has finger-print recognition technology. There you go, that’s worth 600 lids, is it not?
Apple and co are locked into a release cycle their forecasting and whole business depends on releasing a new phone every x months.
This means dev teams sit around thinking of what they can add to release which usually means 1) upgrade CPU 2) better screen and 3) some novel thing.
If they gave us the latest and greatest they wouldn’t be able to release a new phone for years and go bust.
What has the 5s got? An incremental increase in capability and features over previous editions. Surely you are familiar with this process from other consumer goods (cars, coffee makers etc.)? It shouldn’t be that surprising a concept.
x who’s going to buy the x box 1 when they are going to charge you to play 2nd hand games on it. Microsoft you just shot j in the foot on this one
Sorry but they reversed that decision on DRM ages ago after the public backlash.
I’m waiting for the Galaxy Note 3 to come out, then I can get the Note 2 at a reduced price. I want to upgrade to this from the Galaxy S2 for the stylus feature. Instead of browsing on my free time, I can get back to sketching. From what I’ve read there isn’t much difference between the two to warrant getting the more expensive, newer version.
What have Roku Inc released!?? I see Samsung bought Boxee a few months back so I’m eagerly awaiting their next gen of Smart TV, if only to drool over as crazy prices.
Doin’ me head in!
Do you want to value the stock price of Samsung or Apple?
I advice you to check http://sharevaluecalculator.com
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