Five counties are bracing for possible thunderstorms as Met \u00c9ireann issued a rain warning for the south-east.<\/p>\n
There is a risk of localised flooding and difficult travelling conditions in Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow from midday on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The status yellow warning expires at 3am on Friday.<\/p>\n
Met \u00c9ireann said there would be \u201cspells of heavy rain with a possibility of thunderstorms\u201d throughout that period.<\/p>\n
More generally, it forecast: \u201cThursday will start off dry in many areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cRain across southern fringes will slowly extend to eastern and southern counties, heavy at times with the chance of thunderstorms and the potential for surface flooding.<\/p>\n
\u201cDrier and warmer across west and north-west counties with some sunny spells but the odd thundery shower may occur too. Highest temperatures of 18 to 24C.\u201d<\/p>\n
It added: \u201cScattered outbreaks of rain will affect the country, locally heavy and thundery with the potential for some thunderstorms.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, it will likely become drier across the western half of the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cPatches of mist or fog may form in light variable, mainly westerly breezes. Lowest temperatures of 13 to 16C.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scattered showers \u2013 some heavy and thundery \u2013 appear to be on the cards into the weekend, with the weather agency also advising that current indications suggest \u201cthe early days of next week will continue unsettled with rain or showers at times\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five counties are bracing for possible thunderstorms as Met \u00c9ireann issued a rain warning for the south-east. There…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-605066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605066","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=605066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}