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LAST UPDATE | 14 Feb 2020
GARDAÍ HAVE APPEALED to the public to be extra cautious ahead of the arrival of Storm Dennis.
Met Éireann issued a status yellow wind and rainfall warnings for the entire country which kicks in from 3am until 8pm on Saturday while the rainfall alert will run from 6am until 9pm.
They urge people across Ireland to be aware that heavy rainfall and powerful wind have the capacity to impact them.
Spells of heavy, locally thundery rain, have been forecast which will lead to some flooding tomorrow.
“Storm Dennis will bring wet and very windy weather this weekend and into Monday. There is a risk of flooding and damaging gusts,” Met Éireann advised.
The centre of the storm is just south of Iceland however it is still set to have a significant impact on Ireland.
An Garda Síochána / TwitterGardaí are appealing to the public to be extra cautious as severe winds & rain are forecast from tomorrow morning 15/2/20 valid to 9pm tomorrow evening.
— An Garda Síochána (@GardaTraffic) February 14, 2020
Further info on https://t.co/BAb4LKvNna & Met Éireann pic.twitter.com/v8T0GaWuYD
The national meteorological service says the weather will be “very disturbed” throughout the weekend with the storm coming closest to Ireland later on Sunday.
Northwestern counties are set to be worst affected with widespread heavy rain and squally winds bringing hail showers and thundery downpours at times.
The UK Met Office has heightened its warnings ahead of Dennis drawing near. It says that conditions are likely to bring flooding to homes and businesses and fast flowing or deep floodwater will also likely cause danger to life.
The arrival of Storm Dennis comes just a week after Storm Ciara battered parts of the country, bringing winds of up to 120kmph.
With reporting from Adam Daly
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Is there still time left to park in Salthill?
@Fred the Muss: There’ll be at least one!!
Go on someone make a northern ireland grey warning joke. Theyre hilarious
@will stamp: You beat them to it Will .
@will stamp: just colour it in. Not that difficult is it Willie
Storm-ont not affected
… there, a new comment for weather warning posts :-)
@WoodlandBard: bravo
It would be easy for the journal to use a generic map of the Island and to report the official Met UK forecast for the north east of the island. The approach of using this map is antagonistic and somewhat juvenile. Most likely in the interest of stirring up engagement. I’m a Nationalist, from Kildare, and this image insults a lot of people. Yes it’s the official blah blah, but use your common sense man. Don’t be a so and so.
@Mark Day: use your common sense, as soon as met Eireann do forecasts for NI The Journal will too.
@Dave O’Keeffe: so nobody from the North Eastern part of Ireland, living in either the Republic or the North, read the journal or are interested in the weather in the North? Nobody crossing the border on a daily basis wants to know about storm or weather conditions in the six counties? And you profess common sense??
@Dave O’Keeffe: if you read what I said, I suggested they use Met Eireann or Met UK forecasts so that they could report correctly for people from that part of Ireland that would be concerned about the forecasts for their region.
@Dave O’Keeffe: where do RTE get their forecasts for the North, and why do they forecast for the North, common sense I’d imagine. The authors and graphics people here do this so that folk like us will get into a barney. But for me, I’d like to know how Derry is going to fare, as I have family there. Should I have to go to the BBC for that? RTE the national broadcaster realise that this would be a commercial mistake. The journal prefer to have muppets arguing.
@Mark Day: RTÉ give forecasts not warnings No get their warnings from uk met office. You can’t give warnings to another Country
@Mark Day: probably the worst use of the word ‘antagonistic’ I’ve ever seen.
@Mark Day: do you read the Kildare Nationalist?
You know what they say…
“Yellow Warning: be grand in the morning”
Warmer waters fuel more frequent more powerful storms – 30 years ago weeks of unbroken sunny frosty weather in Winter.
@GO GREEN: 30 years ago some of the wettest summers in history whats your point
Who cares at this stage.
@Blackpope79: If there was no warning system and people were dying there would be a public outcry for a warning system…. much like the one we have now.
@Blackpope79: The 38,700 people who read the article
here’s some info about preventing flooding in your house and what to do if it happens
https://eurofree3.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/coping-with-flooding-in-ireland/
As someone said ,if there was no weather,Irish people would never speak to each other.
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