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LAST UPDATE | 21 Oct 2023
A STATUS YELLOW rain warning has been issued for Munster and Connacht.
The warning will be in place from 6pm tomorrow until 4am on Tuesday.
Met Éireann has said these areas will be affected by heavy rain with the chance of thunder.
There could be some localised flooding and difficult travel conditions.
Ahead of the upcoming warning, there will be a brief respite from the wet weather this weekend with cooler, more settled conditions forecast.
According to Met Éireann, it will be a dry day in many places today, with variable cloud and some brighter spells. Some drizzle will remain, however, and there will be some showers in the north and west.
It will be cooler than recent days, with temperatures reaching just 10 to 12 degrees, in light winds. Tonight will be mostly dry, with some scattered showers. Temperatures may drop as low as zero degrees in some places, with some frost possible in the midlands.
Tomorrow will start dry, bright and crisp across the country but cloud will build across the south bringing outbursts of occasionally heavy rain. Next week is set to be more unsettled, with rain forecast.
Orange weather warnings that had been in place for Dublin and Wicklow have now been lifted, with no weather warnings currently in place, following a week which saw severe flooding in some areas.
Parts of Cork faced knee-high flooding on Wednesday due to heavy rainfall from Storm Babet, particularly the town of Midleton, where members of the Defence Forces were deployed as buildings flooded and roads were cut off.
A major clean-up operation is still under way to deal with the aftermath, as the community was reeling from the effects. The Government has promised to provide financial support to those affected from next week.
With reporting by Órla Ryan
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It’s pretty bad alright. I’ve been in monsoon rains in Asia, and it was nothing compared to the rain I experienced on the NSW south coast today. I’ve used the phrase “bucketing down” all my life, but today was the first time I’ve used it accurately without exaggeration. It was like thousands of buckets of water were just being poured from the sky, relentlessly for about an hour. Then it just went back to heavy rain. Then it bucketed again for another hour or so, and when it did, you literally couldn’t see a meter outside your window.
Due to get worse tomorrow and then reduce to heavy rain for the next 10 days or so. But with everything else that’s happening in the world, I count my chickens that we are in a safely high area, and not a flood plane or a war zone.
@Jonathan Nolan: As you know its come down from Brisbane .. and you’re right, never seen rain like it. 250mm each day for 3 days solid. Some places had over a metre in that time. Had we had one more day I’d be cleaning out my own flooded house right now.
@Pablo: take care Pablo. Let’s hope it calms down or goes off the coast or something. It’s pretty ridiculous the amount of water coming down stay safe
@Jonathan Nolan: Take care, Jonathan. Melbourne is unusually humid but dry for now. Time to get a federal government that takes climate change seriously, that spends our taxes where it is needed, rather than on their mate.
@A Well Known Comical Stereotype AKA PRGuy: your not wrong.
@A Well Known Comical Stereotype AKA PRGuy: yeah it’s been lovely in Melbourne the last few weeks. The rain up there looks crazy. I heard that in one hour somewhere in Queensland they had more than Melbourne’s entire annual rainfall!
Hope you stay safe and dry there and can help others out. A metre of rain sounds destructive, especially on baked-dry land.
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