{"id":381385,"date":"2026-04-04T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381385\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:03:07","slug":"storm-dave-to-hit-ireland-as-met-eireann-warns-of-severe-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381385\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Dave to hit Ireland as Met \u00c9ireann warns of &#8216;severe&#8217; wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Storm Dave is set to hit Ireland on Saturday, with Met \u00c9ireann warning of severe gusts and coastal gales.<\/p>\n<p>The entire country will come under a status yellow wind warning from 1pm. It will expire at 2am on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Donegal and Mayo are under a status yellow rain warning as of 8am. This warning will expire at 4pm on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Met \u00c9ireann said Storm Dave will bring very strong southerly winds, veering westerly by the evening.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2757\ufe0fUpdate<br \/>\u26a0\ufe0fYellow Rain Warning for Mayo &amp; Donegal<br \/>\u23f308:00 to 16:00 Sat 04\/04\/26<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0fYellow Wind Warning for Ireland<br \/>\u23f313:00 Sat 04\/04\/26 to 02:00 Sun 05\/05\/26<\/p>\n<p>\u2139\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lvQFgW8DsS\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/lvQFgW8DsS<\/a><br \/>\u2139\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ktXtWjbfIg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/ktXtWjbfIg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W8icS7iLtO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/W8icS7iLtO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Met \u00c9ireann (@MetEireann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetEireann\/status\/2040323350656909450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The weather forecaster said possible impacts include some fallen trees and branches; wave overtopping; difficult traveling conditions; and debris.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Met Office&#8217;s wind warning for Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone, and Derry will come into effect at 2pm and expire at 3am on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storm Dave is set to hit Ireland on Saturday, with Met \u00c9ireann warning of severe gusts and coastal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-381385","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\/381385","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=381385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}