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LAST UPDATE | 25 Apr 2019
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STORM HANNAH IS expected to bring strong winds on Friday night with a Status Orange wind warning in place for Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Clare.
The storm has been officially named by Met Éireann with the forecaster saying it will be “very windy or stormy in Munster and Connacht, especially in coastal areas with very strong, gusty west to northwest winds”.
Strong gusts will extend to all areas throughout the night and rain will clear eastwards.
Met Éireann has issued a Status Orange wind warning for Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Clare that will begin from 4pm on Friday and continue until 5am on Saturday morning.
A Status Yellow wind warning is in place for Connacht, Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Wexford, Wicklow, Offaly, Donegal, Tipperary and Waterford from 11pm tomorrow until 9am on Saturday:
Becoming very windy on Friday night and for a time on Saturday morning. Southerly winds will veer northwesterly and reach mean speeds of 50-65km/h with gusts of 90 to 110 km/h.
Ahead of the arrival of the stormy conditions on Friday night, the afternoon is expected to be mostly cloudy with rain over Leinster and Munster.
Today is expected to be mainly dry in the morning with showers and longer spells of rain the developing in the east and south.
The RSA is reminding road users to be careful on roads, and asking people to check local weather and traffic conditions and be aware of the conditions before setting out on a trip.
The RSA has the following advice for road users:
It’s also advising pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists:
- with reporting from Gráinne Ní Aodha
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An average day so
@TechBuzz Ireland: no, because we don’t get storms every day
@TechBuzz Ireland: someone once said that Met Eireann may be being a tad over zealous with their weather warnings. Here in Grenoble, we have had rain and winds averaging between 30 and 70 km per hour, with gusts exceeding 80km for the last two days. No weather warnings because, well it’s the weather. So I think they may have a point.
@David Stapleton: I think of you actually look on meteoalarm.eu that most of France is currently under a yellow warning! The warning standards are EU standard as far as I know.
@David Stapleton: status orange by the way!
@joe: yup it’s EU regulation, standard across the EU. When a storm is discovered the country that it first makes landfall with is require to name it.
@David Stapleton: 90 – 110 is higher than 80
@James Padden: really, thanks for that salient point. A wind that exceeds 80 is also higher than 80 but that wasn’t the point I was making. Also for those other posts about a status orange warning in France, point taken. However it still doesn’t change the fact that it is not plastered all over the newspapers here. Though, on reflection, the issue may be with the friggin’ newspapers sensationalising everything.
@David Stapleton: good point. They gave to get clicks somehow, pretty low bar for what constitutes news these days!
@TechBuzz Ireland: the alarmist approach is from rte, not meteirann.
Yippie bring it on lest we can enjoy a good nights sleep again that weather we had was too warm not used to it and we ll b able to enjoy a pint down d local without the sweat pouring out of us
@liam ward60: yeah, because being able to have a pint in comfort is the most important thing. :/ sheesh
@liam ward60: Sounds like you may have a problem with your sweat glands. Or your local pub needs air conditioning. One or the other.
Is there ever any good bit of news to start off the day? Anyone? Nah?
@Ó Donnabháin Ccian: Well, the missus said that she was going away for a few day’s. Does that count at all?
@Patabake Kennedy:
Not if she’s going away for a few days with the new boyfriend.
@Ó Donnabháin Ccian: ofc theres good news…you’re alive and breathing..isnt that some great news?
@Celia Murphy: You’re spot on!
@Ó Donnabháin Ccian: i have good news, i am in Portugal
@Ó Donnabháin Ccian: my good news is, i am in Portugal
Storm Hannah sounds rather benign, how about Storm Ghengis Khan.
More Met Eireann scaremongering. The PC age tries to have us afraid of rain these days.
@Mike Conway: It’s the information age and its just information, don’t be afraid of it.
@Mike Conway: Asking people to be careful is scaremongering? To what end?
@Mike Conway: funny thing is that there are people who have been repeatedly flooded out who are, in fact, afraid of rain. And if some of the predictions are to be believed, many more will be in future, especially those around the coasts who will have to deal with elevated sea levels.
Was the name Hannah not used already in the last few years?
Hopefully they won’t take the roads in
Wet Eireann
East Coast completely fine. Business as usual for the hardy Wesht
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I press the play button on the pic but nothing happens :-(
@Chewey Bacca: they do it that way to be in sync with the actual weather warnings…
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