{"id":137403,"date":"2025-11-13T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137403\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:42:08","slug":"flooding-likely-as-orange-alert-issued-for-three-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137403\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding likely as Orange alert issued for three counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Significant flooding and hazardous travelling conditions are expected as Met \u00c9ireann issues a Status Orange rain warning for three counties tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The warning will be in effect for Dublin, Wexford and Wicklow from 2pm tomorrow until 11am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The forecaster said that there will be significant rainfall accumulations, especially on high ground and exposed areas.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of a number of warnings issued by the forecaster, with heavy rain forecast in many parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>A Status Yellow wind warning will also be in effect for Dublin, Louth, Wexford and Wicklow from 12pm tomorrow until 4am on Saturday, with strong and gusty northeasterly winds forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Two separate Status Yellow rain warnings have been issued for 13 counties.<\/p>\n<p>The first comes into effect at 9am tomorrow and covers Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Watefford and will be in operation until 9am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The second will be in operation from 11am tomorrow until 11am on Saturday for Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Louth, Meath, Wexford and Wicklow.<\/p>\n<p>Met \u00c9ireann is warning of heavy and persistent rain on already saturated ground, leading to difficult travelling conditions, poor visibility and possible flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Significant flooding and hazardous travelling conditions are expected as Met \u00c9ireann issues a Status Orange rain warning for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-137403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}