{"id":581535,"date":"2026-08-03T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T09:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581535\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T09:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T09:47:09","slug":"status-yellow-rain-warning-issued-for-two-counties-ahead-of-thunderstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581535\/","title":{"rendered":"Status Yellow rain warning issued for two counties ahead of thunderstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A STATUS YELLOW rain warning has been issued for Wexford and Wicklow ahead of spells of thundery rain this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, Met \u00c9ireann expects today to bring a mix of cloud and bright or sunny spells with scattered showers.<\/p>\n<p>As the day goes on, the weather is forecast to become mostly cloudy with showers or longer spells of rain pushing up from the south.<\/p>\n<p>The Status Yellow rain warning issued for Wexford and Wicklow is due to take effect at 5pm and last until midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Met \u00c9ireann is cautioning that some heavy, potentially thundery downpours are possible, bringing a risk of spot flooding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Highest temperatures today should be between 19 and 24 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight is expected to be mostly cloudy, with heavy rain or showers to continue to extend northeastwards over the country, bringing a continued risk of spot flooding.<\/p>\n<p>The showers are set to gradually ease in most places later in the night. Conditions will stay mild and humid tonight, with lowest temperatures of 12 to 16 degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A STATUS YELLOW rain warning has been issued for Wexford and Wicklow ahead of spells of thundery rain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1626,42,43,138068,40,38,41,39,21064,9270,7469],"class_list":["post-581535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-forecast","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-thunderstorms","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weather-warning","tag-wexford","tag-wicklow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581535","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=581535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}