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MET ÉIREANN HAS issued Status Yellow wind and rainfall warnings for the entire country this weekend, as voters prepare to head to the polls on Saturday.
Storm Ciara is expected to produce strong winds and heavy rainfall over the course of the two days.
The yellow wind warning will be in place from 9am Saturday to 11.59pm on Sunday. The yellow rainfall warning will be in place from 12pm Saturday to 3pm the following day.
On Saturday, the day of the general election, southernly winds will strengthen throughout the day, with gusts of up to 110 kilometres per hour.
A heavy spell of rain will spread east on this day, with highest rainfall expected in the west and north west.
On Sunday, there will be strong winds across the country with a risk of damaging gusts.
There will be another bout of heavy rain on this day which will clear to wintry showers.
There is a risk of localised flooding this weekend, especially in the west.
Storm Ciara is expected to develop across Ireland and North-West Europe this weekend.
Ciara is the third named storm of the season, after storms Atiyah and Brendan.
The storm is taking place on the weekend of the country’s first Saturday general election since 1918. Voting will begin at 7am and will continue until 10pm.
The Met Office in the UK has issued yellow wind and rain warnings for different parts of the UK on Sunday.
There is also a yellow wind warning in place for Northern Ireland and Scotland on Saturday and a yellow wind and snow warning for the same areas on Monday.
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And the 6 counties have only a grey alert
@trebloc01: Every time one of these weather warnings comes up someone has to point out Northern Ireland is in grey. If it’s supposed to be a joke it stopped being funny quite some years ago. If it’s plain ignorance, the reason the six counties are in grey is because they are part of the United Kingdom and are therefore looked after by the UK Meteorological Office.
@John Burns: hey John have you seen the 6 counties?? They must be on a grey alert hahahahahhahahhaha. John…… Do you get it?
@trebloc01: yer crowd named the storm, our crowd just painted in between the lines
@trebloc01: a lot of it is under orange alert
@John Burns: the six counties are part of Ireland , half the population have Irish passports and are citizens. Having the weather alerts cover the whole of Ireland is not too much to ask . I am sure Paris when under German occupation still got French weather alerts .
@Stan Linehan: You should read the second part of my comment.
The Ireland v Wales game is going to be a shocker in a status yellow storm. For once, I’m glad I’m not going to be at it.
@Peter Cavey: The weather on the high stool is looking great.
@Peter Cavey: yeah they should change it to Ravenhill on Sunday
So will this be used as an excuse when certain parties don’t do so good in the voting?
Its getting you can hardly tell the seasons apart, wind and rain and more wind and rain with weeks of frosty sunny days a distant memory in years long gone.
Apparently Dennis is on the way after Ciara with a big bag of white stuff……..
@Sharp Elsi Mate: Dennis O B???
Status yellow warning for ‘Irish winter’, begins Late October ends About Late September
Tis’ the wind of political change a blowing in? Lol
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