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LAST UPDATE | 14 Feb 2020
GARDAÍ HAVE APPEALED to the public to be extra cautious ahead of the arrival of Storm Dennis.
Met Éireann issued a status yellow wind and rainfall warnings for the entire country which kicks in from 3am until 8pm on Saturday while the rainfall alert will run from 6am until 9pm.
They urge people across Ireland to be aware that heavy rainfall and powerful wind have the capacity to impact them.
Spells of heavy, locally thundery rain, have been forecast which will lead to some flooding tomorrow.
“Storm Dennis will bring wet and very windy weather this weekend and into Monday. There is a risk of flooding and damaging gusts,” Met Éireann advised.
The centre of the storm is just south of Iceland however it is still set to have a significant impact on Ireland.
The national meteorological service says the weather will be “very disturbed” throughout the weekend with the storm coming closest to Ireland later on Sunday.
Northwestern counties are set to be worst affected with widespread heavy rain and squally winds bringing hail showers and thundery downpours at times.
The UK Met Office has heightened its warnings ahead of Dennis drawing near. It says that conditions are likely to bring flooding to homes and businesses and fast flowing or deep floodwater will also likely cause danger to life.
The arrival of Storm Dennis comes just a week after Storm Ciara battered parts of the country, bringing winds of up to 120kmph.
With reporting from Adam Daly
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They should ask John-Joe.
Bet you it was because of this leap second issue that John Joe is looking at auctioneering as a career. Smart lad. He saw the trouble coming!
Waaaaaaay too much time on their hands
Why worry about leap seconds when summer time with a bi-annual movement by one hour causes large disruption not only to a technological age but also to personal sleep patterns.
Summer time was invented when farmers were the majority of the workforce and now form a tiny minority.
I personally find it disruptive as when dealing in international business, different countries change times on different days or not at all.
Don’t take away our long summer nights! It’s all we have left in Ireland…
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day….
Ha.
I clocked that on the second time..
Sure it’s all relative.
They’ll have a hard time coming up with a solution
Alan lawlor – I wouldn’t say farming is now a minority. It seems to me farming is back bone of our economy and will be for ever more I wreckon. And there not the reason for the clock change. Its done globally!
Derek. I am not saying we should dispense with farming. But should we all be disrupted for a few thousand now directly affected? Especially as it was designed for things like milking in early morning and harvesting late at night without the modern benefits of electricity in milking parlours or spotlights on harvesters.
Regarding global use of summertime, it is not used in all countries and the changeover date differs from country to country (eg US is different). Some countries including UK have been debating its abolition in recent years
You can get better food cheaper from any other country
What actual time is it,right now?
Hammer Time!
Well we obviously cant “dispense” of farming. Its keeping our economy alive at the moment. Strongly rumoured the suger industry is gonna be ressurcted. But I do agree with the abolishing of the hour change. No need in this modern world. Oh ya as I grew up I was always told it was for school drop offs and not for the farmers. And to JIM ‘better food imported “for cheaper is going in for ridiculous quote of the week. Are u for real?
Wait a second…
Time is irrelevant ,concerning builders plumbers or anybody in construction industry . Two weeks they said !!!
“15 seconds every hundred years” Doesn’t sound like the world would end coz of it, does it?
Time doesn’t exist, clocks exist.;
Dahh dah dah da, da da, da da. :)
:( my comment moved… This was supposed to be under hammertime. Granted… it’s still fairly crap.
Give them a few seconds to think about it.
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