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A STATUS YELLOW alert for rain will come into place across ten counties later, a day after Ireland experienced the highest temperatures of the year so far.
Temperatures hit 18 degrees in some areas yesterday and the highest temperature of 18.8 degrees was reached at Shannon Airport.
However, the weather will take a turn today, with a rain warning coming into place in the afternoon.
From 2pm, a Status Yellow alert will come into force across all of Munster, as well as Carlow, Galway, Kilkenny and Wexford.
This alert will remain in place until 2pm tomorrow and Met Éireann is warning of heavy rain and a few thundery downpours, which may result in spot flooding.
Most of the country meanwhile is in for a wet Friday and weekend.
After a largely dry morning with some sunny spells, showers or longer spells of rain will develop in the southeast around lunchtime.
These will extend northwestwards to all areas through the afternoon and evening, with a few heavy or thundery downpours possible, in highest temperatures of 11 to 15 degrees.
Tonight will be cloudy with outbreaks of rain, most persistent over the western half of the country, with lowest temperatures overnight of 4 to 9 degrees.
It’ll be a cloudy start to Saturday for most, with outbreaks of rain, possibly heavy at times.
Highest temperatures of 9 to 13 degrees on Saturday over the eastern half of the country, but only reaching 6 to 8 degrees further west.
And on Saturday night, there will be further showers or longer spells of rain but these will become lighter and patchier overnight and turning drier in the west, with lowest temperatures of 4 to 9 degrees.
More rain is on the way on Sunday morning, though patchy rain and drizzle will gradually clear eastwards with drier, brighter weather following from the west and with sunny spells developing.
Eastern areas will remain mostly cloudy for much of the day, with highest temperatures of 8 to 11 degrees.
Sunday night will be dry and cold with clear spells and lowest temperatures of between 0 and 4 degrees.
Meanwhile, there will be a mainly dry start to next week with bright or sunny spells on Monday morning.
There’ll be highest temperatures of 9 to 12 degrees with light northerly breezes, though light rain and drizzle will move overnight and remain in place come Tuesday morning.
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Why the hell would relatives refuse to let them move if the HSE are doing it for safey reasons. Bet they wouldn’t care for the fire fighters having to enter the building in an event of a fire.
Because its seen as an excuse to close the facility permanently-a lot more to this story than whats in the article
This is par for the course for years.. underfund a community hospital to the point where it’s both unsafe and not viable to repair it and then shut it down. These faults didn’t happen yesterday. Years of neglect.
HSE transparency…if this doesnt work to close the place permanently then they will call in the big guns…the “independent and impartial” HIQA.
They paint the building upgraded the parking new entrances parking meters (not used) its like the Guinness Ad Putting the Cart before the Horse you would think that they would start on the inside and work out to the ( road) It certainly wort a bet it will never open again The H S E H have no heart Watch this space
Whats the bet, that the hospital wont re-open due to other issues discovered with the electrical work.
And how come it will take 5 months to do the work, is there only one electrician being hired?
I’m for the life of me trying to work out what exactly would take five months. An entire housing estate wouldn’t take that and it’s not as if the nursing home wouldn’t have the “ground work” already done such as walls chased etc.. There’s something else going on here.
oh PLEASE!! the HSE care about vulnerable patients……there is certainly an agenda here and it is most certainly not for the good of the patients…..5 months to fix electrical work!!! the same crowd that has minimum entry ( if that) looking after vulnerable people and some dont even have functional english!!!
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