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A STATUS YELLOW weather warning remains in place for most of the country this morning as temperatures dipped below freezing in several counties overnight.
Met Éireann said that the status yellow warning for 22 counties will remain in place until 10am this morning. The only counties to which the warning does not apply are Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford and Waterford.
Despite the freezing cold start to today, the national forecaster predicts that temperatures could reach as high as nine degrees today and that we’re also in for a relatively dry today.
The forecast reads: “A cold start today with frost and patches of freezing fog slow to clear in places, leading to difficult driving conditions.
“A dry and sunny day is expected with highest temperatures generally 6 to 9 degrees, a good deal lower where fog lingers into the afternoon. Light variable winds will back southeasterly later in the day and freshen along Atlantic coasts.”
Met Éireann has forecast that conditions will become milder as the week goes on. Rain is expected later in the week.
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Not sure how good or bad it is in other parts of the country but a yellow warning seems crazy for a bit of frost. A frost warning would have been sufficient.
@Manbackonboard: Ice all along my route this morning – yellow made sense as far as I’m concerned.
And what’s the worst that happens in areas not iced over… So you didn’t get ice? That’s really what you take from it? I’d rather be aware of the potential than not at all.
Maybe they need to change the wording on the yellow warning to from Warning to Alert as people can’t seem to wrap there head around the warning being just a heads up.
Its literally a “heads up, might be icey in the morning, travel with care”. – that’s all it is. What is so wrong with that?
@Manbackonboard: “Not sure how good or bad it is in other parts of the country…” — yet you still think you know better than Met Éireann. Good lad.
@Manbackonboard:jeez why is it so hard for people to understand. The colour coding is in relation to the level of care. So yellow means take a little more care then usual. So yes like you would with frost or ice or rain or wind that requires a similar level of care. They could issue a frost warning but then they would also need a rain and a wind when a similar level but then people would get confused about what that actually means regarding the level of care they need. Colour coding is a simple system that means several different types of weather conditions can be lumped into one category depending on the level of care needed. It’s so simple children can understand it I cant understand why so many adults get their knickers in a twist.
@Manbackonboard: roads were sheet ice last Friday morning in donegal. no gritters on main roads several cars off th main roads. no weather warning. not complaining but if were going to weather warn every bit of frost it will gate even more ridiculous than it is.
What, cold weather in November?
Let’s raise the carbon tax, that should stop that pesky climate change.
Hilarious. Yet I live in Dublin and just got up and everything is frozen
@Jim O Brien – TechBuzz Ireland: same in Waterford
@Jim O Brien – TechBuzz Ireland: I’m in Dublin and while there was frost on the cars etc the roads were perfectly clear.
I’d love a roaring fire. I don’t drive a 2 litre car or any car, I am hammered with carbon on my Gas and Electricity bills and yet am frugal with same.
Life is becoming pretty miserable. I”m not relaxed, I’m saying, will this cost me a lot like yesterday when I had the heat on most of the day.
This is no way to live and I am not driving a Fuel guzzling suv like the ministers are.
Monday morning blues I guess and cold. No heating on. My Bills have rocketed
@Rosie: which ministers drive suvs?
@Rosie: no carbon tax on burning wood
@Rosie: carbon tax increase on heating fuels has been deferred ’til May.
https://www.thejournal.ie/budget-carbon-tax-4842117-Oct2019/
Your bills are going up for other reasons. Switch provider/contract every year.
Can’t wait to see what warnings we will be getting in 10 years time, it’s 2019 and we have a weather warning just to be told it’s frosty outside. And I drive a car, I feel if I need to be told the roads might be slippy when it’s frosty out, maybe I shouldn’t be driving… :)
@Michael O Reilly: it’s a warning not an alert…
ps Those who are wealthy will continue to blast their Gas and electricity and drive their 4 x 4s to the local shop up and down with the kids, have overloaded bins, and not give a rats ass about the climate change. They can afford the carbon tax.
They won’t change their lifestyle one jot.
The poorer people, those with mortgages and mediocre salaries will live like paupers and not use half the heat they were using. The rich will not change. It is a tax on the poor.
@Rosie: Maybe get wealthy like said folk so you can stop moaning
i was called out to tow my sister in law out of a ditch last night about 9.30pm – it was nothing to do with the weather -the incident was caused by someone tailgating her car with headlights on full beam and 2 sets of front ‘fog lights’ on , this was on a narrow country road with open ditches on either side that fill up with water to around 2 ft deep after wet weather — the ditch’s are less than 1 ft away from the edge of the road and are only separated from the road by a strip of grass verge – gladly none was injured in this incident though the car suffered some damage to the bodywork at the front , this could quite easily have been a more serious incident resulting in disabling injury or death and all because some MORON could not ease their foot off the accelerator , stick to the speed limits and drive to the conditions of the road . whoever it was just sped past them and drove on – it would have been clear to anyone that the car had gone into the ditch because of the camber of the road but the driver that caused this incident was already too far away to see the consequences of their reckless driving ! its not just poor weather that causes accidents -its poor driving standards too !
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