{"id":640069,"date":"2026-09-30T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/640069\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:58:09","slug":"dublin-among-six-counties-placed-under-overnight-rain-warning-as-thousands-remain-without-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/640069\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin among six counties placed under overnight rain warning as thousands remain without power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MET \u00c9IREANN HAS issued a fresh Status Yellow rain warning for four counties tonight, as more than 40,000 properties remain without power following today\u2019s severe weather.<\/p>\n<p>Dublin, Louth, Meath and Monaghan have been placed under a rain warning from 11pm tonight until 6am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">\u26a0\ufe0fStatus Yellow Rainfall Warning issued for Dublin, Louth, Meath &amp; Monaghan. <\/p>\n<p>\u23f2\ufe0fValid: 23:00 tonight, Tues 29th, until 06:00 tomorrow, Wed 30th Sept. <\/p>\n<p>Spells of heavy rain\u2614\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lvQFgW9biq\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/lvQFgW9biq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ra4Lu9cJfk\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Ra4Lu9cJfk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Met \u00c9ireann (@MetEireann) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MetEireann\/status\/2105050103476351417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 29, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Met \u00c9ireann said spells of heavy rain could lead to localised flooding, difficult travelling conditions and poor visibility.<\/p>\n<p>A separate Status Yellow rain warning is already in effect for Wexford and Wicklow until 4am on Wednesday, meaning six counties will be covered by warnings overnight.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESB PowerCheck data from around 9.50pm, 40,430 properties were without power across 148 active faults.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Status Yellow wind warnings for Munster, Wicklow, Donegal, Galway, Mayo and Sligo expired at 9pm, along with a rain warning for Cork, Kerry and Waterford.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/CorkTraffic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#CorkTraffic<\/a> Reports of a tree down on Old Youghal Road, Mayfield opposite Mayfield Library. Take care on approach. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oU8j46R1aM\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/oU8j46R1aM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cork Safety Alerts (@CorkSafetyAlert) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CorkSafetyAlert\/status\/2105002718972489921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 29, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Strong winds and heavy rain caused significant disruption throughout the day, with fallen trees and branches blocking roads in parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MET \u00c9IREANN HAS issued a fresh Status Yellow rain warning for four counties tonight, as more than 40,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[271824,1626,42,1191,43,21062,18337,40,38,41,39,767,21064],"class_list":["post-640069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ah-fliuch","tag-forecast","tag-headlines","tag-met-eireann","tag-news","tag-rain-warning","tag-status-yellow","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weather","tag-weather-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640069","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=640069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}