{"id":393893,"date":"2026-04-11T22:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393893\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:42:10","slug":"yellow-thunderstorm-warning-issued-for-cork-kerry-and-waterford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393893\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow thunderstorm warning issued for Cork, Kerry and Waterford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A weather warning has been issued for Cork, Kerry and Waterford for thunderstorm activity on Saturday afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p>The yellow alert has been in place since noon until 7pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Another yellow alert for wind and rain is in place until 8pm for Cork and Kerry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Met \u00c9ireann is warning of difficult driving conditions, spot flooding, fallen branches and the possibility of lightening damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It warned of \u201cvery strong and gusty southwesterly winds, along with squally heavy showers or longer spells of rain and a chance of hail and thunder&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It also said there was a chance of hail in some areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A status yellow wind warning for Donegal, Galway, Mayo and Sligo was due to expire at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The forecaster said that scattered showers will continue overnight, with \u201crather blustery with fresh and gusty southwesterly winds\u201d. Lowest temperatures of 4 to 7 degrees are expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A weather warning has been issued for Cork, Kerry and Waterford for thunderstorm activity on Saturday afternoon and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,61,60,43,767],"class_list":{"0":"post-393893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393893","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=393893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}