{"id":180844,"date":"2025-12-08T10:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180844\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:03:09","slug":"warning-issued-for-ireland-ahead-of-very-strong-winds-and-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180844\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning issued for Ireland ahead of ‘very strong winds’ and rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Very strong and gusty southerly winds are expected to arrive in the early hours of Tuesday morning and persist until the evening, with gale-force winds possible along coastal areas.<\/p>\n

Following the early disruption of the Polar Vortex, deep Arctic troughs pushing into the Atlantic are generating intense storms moving toward Western Europe.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, a fierce windstorm (possibly soon to be named Bram) is forecast to track near the western coast of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.<\/p>\n

As the North Atlantic becomes more active, a zonal flow will return, bringing much warmer and moister air masses across the continent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Status Yellow Rain warning will take effect tomorrow for Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Cork, Kerry, Tipperary, and Waterford.<\/p>\n

The seven-county warning begins at 9pm on Monday and remains in place until 9am Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Met \u00c9ireann <\/a>has cautioned that flooding is likely due to the \u201cheavy rain falling on already saturated ground.\u201d A Status Yellow Wind alert will then come into force from 3am Tuesday until 9pm that evening for the entire country.<\/p>\n

Met \u00c9ireann has warned that \u201cvery strong and gusty\u201d winds will impact the country during this period, bringing notable risks.<\/p>\n

The national forecaster also warned: \u201cGales possible near coasts. \u201cIncreased flood risk in coastal areas due to coincidence with very high spring tides.\u201d<\/p>\n

Concerns include difficult travel conditions, flooding in low-lying coastal zones, wave overtopping, debris, and the displacement of loose objects. Outdoor events are also likely to be affected, according to Met \u00c9ireann.<\/p>\n

These new alerts follow a rain warning from the Met Office for Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone, and Derry, which remains in place until 3pm.<\/p>\n

The series of warnings comes amid fears from weather experts that orange, or even red, alerts could be issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(via Getty Images) Very strong and gusty southerly winds are expected to arrive in the early hours of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,608,611,607,610,609,612,43],"class_list":["post-180844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-radio","tag-limerick-today","tag-limericks-live95fm","tag-live-95","tag-live95fm","tag-live95fm-homepage","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180844","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=180844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}