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LAST UPDATE | 14 Nov 2020
ALL AREAS OF the country experienced strong winds today as Status Yellow Wind warnings have been issued in every province.
Met Éireann issued four separate Status Yellow Wind warnings ahead of strong and gusty southwest to west winds. It was forecast that gusts may reach speeds of over 90 kilometres per hour.
The first warning came into effect in Munster at 11am and lasted until 3pm.
Warnings were in place in Leinster between 12pm and 6pm and in Connacht between 3pm and 6pm.
In Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal, a warning will last until 9pm.
The bad news is that the rest of the weekend is expected to be unsettled. Rain is expected across the country along with what Met Éireann described as “fresh westerly winds” which it said could become strong on the coasts.
Along the coast, a Status Yellow Gale warning was issued at 5am in anticipation of south to southwest winds reaching gale force 8 today on Irish coastal waters and on the Irish sea.
Temperatures are also set to drop as we enter next week. The national forecaster said we can expect overnight frost in places with temperatures during the day of between six and eight degrees on most days next week.
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Ah fantastic news. Sure we definitely need another pandemic. I was getting bored of no pandemic news.
@Andy O’B: you do know that they’ve previously reported this type of stuff in the news even before covid? Get over yourself.
@Aidan Walsh: relax there Aido!
@Aidan Walsh: Lighten up there Aidan, it was only a joke. Remember them?
It was bad enough explaining to people how I got Covid…. Having to explain monkey pox will be a nightmare.
@Ronnie Mhelan: why so? Are the people you know all homophobic?
@Alan Peters: Ok Alan
@PrincessLeia: in the early days of the HIV endemic those infected had an average of 7-8 sexual partners a year
@Alan Peters: Maybe you should worry about your own sex-life Alan and not get yourself so heavily invested in what anybody else is doing?
@Alan Peters: seriously, it comes across as creepy and weird.
@PrincessLeia: it comes across like you’re desperate for a fight….
We are so lucky that the FDA approved a jab for monkey pox in September 2019 just before covid hit! What are the chances! You’d swear they knew something like this was gonna happen!
@James Quinn: it’s around since 1958 dude, take off the tin foil hat. It’s not a new thing. Spanner
@James Quinn: Did you actually read that article? Because if you did you would know that this was developed and approved following an outbreak of monkey pox in the US in 2003. The vaccine also includes smallpox which is not part of their vaccination program since 1973 so the general population do not have immunity since it was eradicated and the vaccinationprogram ceased. This vaccine is part of the stockpiling program so its there should they need it. It’s called disease prevention and control. Aren’t we lucky there are clever people that look after these things. By the way they had been saying for a number of years we were due a pandemic it’s part of their job to research and predict these things it’s not a conspiracy just because it’s something you don’t understand.
@Dawn Harvey: and 33 have thumbed up his post already….so many believe the first thing they read here in the comments section. Pity!
@James Quinn: yay, something new to fuel the manufactured outrage of conspiracy theory.
@PrincessLeia: they’ll be positively salivating over this- a perfect opportunity to misrepresent reality and stoke paranoia and fear.
@Rmaybe: Thank God someone has some common sense
Oh oh here we go again!
Another poxy story on the journal
Every country is now become endemic. Covid has proved that.
@Dave Barrett: I don’t understand this comment. Endemic is in relation to the infection being constantly maintained at a baseline level in a geographical region. Covid is still prevelant worldwide how has it proven every country is endemic and how can a country be endemic? Chicken pox can be endemic to Ireland but Malaria is not . A country can have many infections and diseases some naturally occurring in the geographical region and some for outside transmission such as travel. The flu has always spread around the world and that is how the vaccine is tweaked each year. So again how can a country be endemic and how has covid proved this.?
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