MET ÉIREANN HAS issued a nationwide orange alert, with high winds and heavy rain expected all day.
The northwest will be hardest hit as winds continue into the night. The weather service is predicting that it will be dry early on, but things will get worse from there.
“[It will become] very wet and extremely windy during the morning and early afternoon, as very heavy rain and gale force southerly winds sweeps eastwards with gusts of 100 to 120km/h in exposed places.”
Met Éireann is also warning that there is a risk of local spot flooding.
The wind will die down tonight over most of the country, except for the northwest, with heavy showers starting overnight in the south and west.
Power
Power outages have already been widespread across the country in the last week, with 25,000 customers without power on Wednesday after high winds battered the country.
ESB Networks says that “conditions remain challenging”.
Roads
Drivers of high-sided vehicles are being warned to take care in exposed areas as winds pick up.
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