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A STATUS YELLOW ice warning is set to come into effect for most of the country this evening, with temperatures set to fall below freezing in some places tonight.
The warning, issued by Met Éireann, impacts 22 counties across the country and will come into effect at 5pm this evening until 9am tomorrow morning.
The counties impacted are: Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wicklow, Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo.
⚠️Status Yellow - Ice warning for Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wicklow, Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, Connacht⚠️
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) December 17, 2022
Valid: 17:00 Saturday 17/12/2022 to 09:00 Sunday 18/12/2022
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Met Éireann has said there will be ice lingering in places, which will lead to hazardous travelling conditions, especially on untreated roads and paths.
Gardaí earlier urged all road users to pay attention to driving conditions and to only make necessary journeys.
“Co.Mayo in particular has seen a number of incidents occur overnight and during the early hours of this morning due to poor overnight conditions,” gardaí said.
This morning, Mayo County Council warned of “treacherous” driving conditions due to a combination of freezing temperatures and rainfall overnight.
“Please avoid using roads this morning but exercise extreme caution if travel is necessary. Gritters will continue their work where safe to do so.”
Cork County Council also said that road conditions across the county were “treacherous”.
“Fluctuating and dropping temperatures following overnight rainfall in the period between salting runs has led to the development of black ice on many roads and surfaces,” the statement read.
“Motorists are advised to exercise extreme caution.”
Met Éireann said the afternoon will be chilly with a good deal of dry and sunny weather conditions, with highest temperatures ranging between 1 to 4 degrees generally.
Icy conditions are set to will linger in places before temperatures fall below freezing in some areas early this evening.
It will remain cold tonight with frost and ice continuing in places. Scattered outbreaks of rain will spread from the southwest.
Lowest temperatures of -2 to 3 degrees before milder conditions gradually extend from the south through the night.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with scattered outbreaks of blustery rain which will be heaviest across southern and western counties, bringing possible spot flooding.
The rain may turn wintry locally early on in the north of the country.
However, it will become much milder in the afternoon, with temperatures ranging from 5 to 8 degrees over Ulster and 8 to 12 or 13 degrees further south.
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That might work if they updated itself. 8 hours on Friday with no updates other thant flight was taking off ten minutes ago
@Sean Partidge: airlines update that side
@Sean Partidge: Not the airport’s responsibility.
I suppose this is the DAA’s fault too.
Stuck in Stansted. 9.50 Flight to Dublin cancelled at 11.30 last night with no notification untill I went online to look. No flights until tomorrow & have to get to Gatwick. It’s absolutely crazy here.
@John Barry: Hope you all get in the air soon. If only there were regular updates and places to charge your phones, it would be less stressful all right.
(Put on a mask though, I’ve two friends down with Covid after a return flight where no one bothered.)
Cancelled flights? Luxury!
In my day we had to walk through airport – none a this cosy security checks. All and sundry (middle class if ya don’t mind) dressed resplendently singin’ tut rain in Spain, as such. Young generation xyz etc don’t know their livin’ what with over bookins, plane rage, terror-types and Ryanairs most bew-tee-full colour co-ordination and oppulant seating.
Cancelled flights? They’re lucky! We used to dreeem a been cancelled.
Out via Dublin Airport recently. Dirty and filthy. Everywhere from the road to the aircraft. Retail staff just don’t even know what country they’re in.
millions of others go through this.
Almost 3 hours waiting on a stand, after a 9 hour flight. Watching winter operations training outside the aircraft while families onboard contacted loved ones to say We’re parked on the new runway to allow other airlines taxi into non contact stands.
Plenty of stands vacant and not in use.
I simply hate having to fly anywhere but jaysus, can the Airport operator not get anything right.
@Liam McGrath: bit of a skewed viewpoint
@Ciaran: correct, out was bad, inbound was worse.
God love anyone travelling via Dublin.
Going to Dublin airport these days is a bit like your prepay meter. A load of ball ox.
Dubliners say they’re more than welcome to our share of the freezing fog, we’ve had enough of it on the east coast!
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