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<\/p>\nA Status Yellow rain warning for counties Dublin and Wicklow remains in effect ahead of the arrival of the first named storm of the season tomorrow.<\/p>\n
The warning is valid until 10am.<\/p>\n
Met \u00c9ireann said heavy rain could lead to travel disruption and localised flooding.<\/p>\n
Separately, the forecaster said Storm Austen is due to hit the country tomorrow, with Met \u00c9ireann issuing a Status Yellow rain warning for all counties.<\/p>\n
It said the heavy rain associated with the storm will spread eastwards throughout the day.<\/p>\n
This, it said, could impact outdoor events, lead to difficult travelling conditions and localised flooding.<\/p>\n
The warning will be in effect from 7pm tomorrow until 8am on Friday.<\/p>\n
Ail\u00eds Hankinson, operational meteorologist with Met \u00c9ireann, said “it is possible that there may be updates” to the warning associated with Storm Austen “over the coming days”.<\/p>\n
“It looks like the south of Ireland will feel the worst impacts and as a result, there may be upgraded warnings,” she said.<\/p>\n
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Ms Hankinson said rain will hit the southwest of Ireland first “and will make its way across Ireland, based on the latest model that we have”.<\/p>\n
She added that by 8am on Friday, people can expect rainfall associated with the storm to gradually clear, with blustery showers following for the remainder of the day.<\/p>\n
Ms Hankinson said Storm Austen was named by the UK Met Office as the UK will see the worst impacts of the storm in relation to winds.<\/p>\n
Met \u00c9ireann, the UK Met Office and the meteorological service in the Netherlands, KNMI, launched the list of names for the 2026\/27 storm season, with each of the national partners contributing seven names, according to the forecaster.<\/p>\n
The name Austen was submitted by Met \u00c9ireann.<\/p>\n
Austen H Nagle was the first director of Irish Meteorological Service and worked in the British Meteorological Office from 1927 to 1936.<\/p>\n
He later took up a senior post in the United States Weather Bureau.<\/p>\n
Additional reporting \u00c9il\u00eds Sheehy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Status Yellow rain warning for counties Dublin and Wicklow remains in effect ahead of the arrival of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-661142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661142","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=661142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}