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LAST UPDATE | 12 Mar 2024
PROPERTY OWNERS IN low lying areas of Cork or in places prone to flooding have been urged to take precautions ahead of a Status Orange warning for rain that is due to come into effect tomorrow.
A Status Yellow warning for rain is currently in place for counties Cork and Kerry until midday tomorrow.
Both counties will then be placed under a Status Orange rain warning until midday on Thursday.
Cork County Council’s Severe Weather Assessment Team has crews on standby in several known risk locations across the county and pumping arrangements are being put in place as a precautionary measure in known problem locations.
Property owners are also being advised by Cork County Council to take precautions in low lying areas or areas susceptible to flooding.
The council added that the weather event is forecast to differ from other recent Status Orange rainfall events because the rainfall intensity is expected to be moderate to steady, and high intensity downpours are not expected.
Met Éireann has said there will be persistent rain in the counties, heavy at times, accompanied by strong onshore winds, high tides and elevated river levels.
This may lead to flooding, wave overtopping and difficult travelling conditions, the forecaster said.
A Status Yellow rain warning will also kick in for Waterford at midday tomorrow and will remain in place for 24 hours.
The Road Safety Authority (RSA) is asking road users to exercise caution while using the roads tomorrow and on Thursday while the weather warnings are in place.
Road users in areas affected by the Status Orange warning are advised to check local traffic and weather conditions before setting out on a journey.
The following advice is being given to motorists:
Pedestrians are advised to walk on the right-hand side of the road, facing traffic if there are no footpaths.
Cyclist should ensure that they and their bike are visible to other road users by investing in a good set of front and rear lights (white at the front, red at the back) and by wearing clothes that help you be seen on your bike, consider wearing high visibility material.
Pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists are being asked to wear bright clothing and consider wearing high visibility material.
Looking at the general forecast, rain is due to become persistent and heavy at times in the southwest and west throughout today.
A band of more persistent rain will move into the west and northwest early tonight, before moving southeastwards overnight.
The rain is due to gradually clear in the northern half of the country tomorrow morning and most areas will become dry for a time in the afternoon.
Conditions will be dull and damp further south where rain and drizzle is forecast to continue.
Rain is expected to spread northwards over Ireland tomorrow night.
Thursday is due to be mostly cloudy and unsettled with rain or showers continuing to feed in from the southwest.
Met Éireann has said a few brighter intervals may develop, the best of which will be later in the afternoon.
Thursday night is forecast to stay mostly cloudy with further rain or showers through the night.
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That’s a shame. Always something I’ve wanted to do and I’ve put my name down on the lottery a good few years now and never made it, some day maybe, though the opportunities to win are getting less for me as the years go by. It’s great to be able to see it via streaming but it’s not the same I’d imagine, bit like watching a game on the TV, it’s good but not the same as being at the real thing. Ah well, I’ll try again for next year.
Ah here, enough already with the COVID
@Mick Hyland: a remanent of Holohan’s reign of terror.
And some want to give a Covid bonus to entire civil service. This lot obviously still not properly back to work.
@John McCann: nowt to do with OPW not being back to work more to do with people gathered in a small chamber 1 person could be covid asymptomatic and potentially infect everyone present same applies to those gathering outside all huddled together to hear anyone speaking etc and someone could be asymptomatic. Chances are it mightn’t happen but can’t risk it either.
Why can’t we risk it? Almost the entire population over 12 is fully vaccinated. What’s the risk of a few fully vaccinated people gathering in essentially an out door space? Night clubs will be open from the end of this month for goodness sake.
We have to treat covid like the flu from here on out. Normality must resume
Surely 1 person could do it. A golden ticket. Charlie and the Newgrange chamber..
I have my eye on a lone standing stone in West Cork. Just over 2m tall but very elongated in cross section, and the long axis points NE-SW, almost exactly into a notch between 2 hills on the SW horizon. Wouldn’t it be fabulous if the Winter Solstice sunset coincided with that notch? Between 18th and 22nd December if there is any clear sunset I’m off to my standing stone to watch the sun go down!
Getting ridiculous now, almost everyone is vaccinated so crack on. Covid is just an excuse now for laziness.
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