{"id":226543,"date":"2026-01-04T07:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226543\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:36:11","slug":"council-urges-extreme-caution-as-freezing-rain-to-hit-donegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226543\/","title":{"rendered":"Council urges \u2018extreme caution\u2019 as freezing rain to hit Donegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donegal County Council has advised road users that freezing rain is predicted from 5pm today until 11am tomorrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Met Office, freezing rain is a rare type of liquid precipitation that strikes a cold surface, and freezes almost instantly.<\/p>\n<p>Some Donegal routes could be treacherous and unable to be treated by council gritters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public are advised to use extreme caution and avoid travelling during these times, if possible,\u201d a council spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Council urges \u2018extreme caution\u2019 as freezing rain to hit Donegal was last modified:  January 3rd, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donegal County Council has advised road users that freezing rain is predicted from 5pm today until 11am tomorrow.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[116394,11243,116395,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-226543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donegal-freezing-rain","tag-donegal-news","tag-donegal-weather-warning","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226543","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=226543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}