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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.
here in kerry we have had a yellow warning since 3 pm yesterday ,its not even close to a yellow alert,no or neglible rainfall yesterday ,mild,and no wind worth talking about and what rain has fell today is harmless
Hope it isn’t as bad as predicted. Thoughts and prayers for people with property , businesses in the high risk areas .
The amazing thing is that scientific method modellers, the people responsible for climate change modelling, are unable to account for the Sun rising every 24 hours.
” It is a fact not generally known that, owing to the difference between solar and sidereal time, the Earth rotates upon its axis once more often than there are 24-hour days in the year” NASA /Harvard.
The empirical sycophants blabber about correlation is not causation, but damn, the inability to account for one sunrise/noon/sunset cycle every 24 hours and a thousand rotations in a thousand 24-hour days should be hilarious. Nobody is laughing.
@Ray : So many willful victims of a ridiculous conclusion made in the 17th century to suit clockwork solar system modelling, which became scientific method modelling. Unlike you who talk about a time period, the silly notion is made using periodic times.
“That the fixed stars being at rest, the periodic times of the five primary planets, and (whether of the sun about the earth, or) of the earth about the sun, are in the sesquiplicate proportion of their mean distances from the sun…. for the periodic times are the same, and the dimensions of the orbits are the same, whether the sun revolves about the earth, or the earth about the sun.” Newton
Unfortunately, you are not familiar enough to know why that is obscene, but then again, you didn’t affirm the cause of a sunrise every day.
@Ray: Timekeeping: time is outside discussion, but the reason one rotation is anchored to the central noon Sun also anchors the 24-hour day to noon. You may have heard of AM and PM in this respect.
An idiot tried to define timekeeping as time.
“Absolute time, in astronomy, is distinguished from relative by the equation of time. Natural days are truly unequal, though they are commonly considered equal and used for a measure of time; astronomers correct this inequality by deducing the celestial motions more accurately. The necessity of which equation, for determining the times of a phænomenon, is evinced as well from the experiments of the pendulum clock.” Newton
Contributors to the Journal can’t stand that I know what that voodoo merchant did in terms of damage and vandalism.
@Ray Dunne: The idea that humanity can control the weather/temperature by controlling human behaviour (climate change modelling) all began with the idea that one rotation is not the same as one 24-hour cycle anchored to noon, which was also the beginning of scientific method modelling.
The Equation of Time is a timekeeping facility that keeps the 24-hour clock fixed at noon on average. Creating the 24-hour day as an average, along with equal hour, minute, and second timekeeping periods, is one of humanity’s great achievements, at least for those who are more considerate and do not celebrate their mediocrity.
As I said, you are a victim of a 17th-century theorist by receiving a less-than-average education.
I see that there’s a yellow van warning for Dublin!
@Padraig O’Brien: Wha?
People may miss what the periodic times mean, as the first Sun-centred astronomers used them.
” The 10th argument, taken from the periodic times, is: the apparent movement of the Sun has 365 days, which is the mean measure
between Venus’ period of 225 days and Mars’ period of 687
days. Therefore, does not the nature of things shout out loud that the
circuits in which those 365 days are taken up have a mean position between the circuits of Mars and Venus around the Sun, and thus, this is not the circuit of the Sun around the Earth, but the circuit of the Earth around the resting Sun” Kepler
Newton and his colleagues still misread Kepler’s diagram, hence the voodoo of absolute/relative time, space and motion.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler#/media/File:Kepler_Mars_retrograde.jpg
@Gerald Kelleher: Kepler’s diagram, with its spirals, represents the Earth’s and Mars’s motions as gauged against the 12 background constellations. It is not a geocentric diagram, as Newton and current theorists misinterpreted it.
Newton thinks geocentric (and geostationary) observations represent relative space and motion, while plonking the Sun at the centre of the diagram makes the spirals (direct/retrograde motion) disappear, hence his absolute space and motion.
“For to the Earth planetary motions appear sometimes direct, sometimes stationary, nay, and sometimes retrograde. But from the Sun, they are always seen direct[ly]…” Newton
My goodness, readers, the vandalism of Western astronomy for clockwork solar system or scientific method modelling is beyond disgraceful.
As the trend in climate change will be getting worse then the government’s priority won’t be name changing expensive referendums but people’s homes and land. Governments are suppose to be of the people for the people by looking after the country with its people. The government now needs to plan and take action for what is about to happen. Climate change is caused by greed and a lack of caring and without effort and planning then it will lead to disaster.
@Solar Luna: Empirical fantasy follows empirical fiction, so although it comforts its adherents in a strange way, it is lethal for a creative and productive individual and society.
Ireland has a maritime climate, so the fantasy of climate change modelling results from misadventures in timekeeping and solar system research that occurred 250+ years ago.
Empirical fiction is an unthinking thing, a subculture that leaves me like zombies who snarl or mock those who have managed to escape to a higher standard of consideration with a reasoning and perceptive balance.
Academics, media and politicians think they are doing society a favour, but it is a distraction from many swindles.
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