{"id":663773,"date":"2026-10-24T05:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T05:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663773\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T05:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T05:34:33","slug":"storm-austen-floods-gales-and-marathon-chaos-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663773\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Austen: Floods, gales, and marathon chaos loom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland is now bracing for intense levels of rainfall, which are expected to bring floods as Storm Austen rolls in sooner than previously believed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first named storm<\/a> of the season is now set to hit later this evening, bringing a yellow wind and rain warning to the entire country. This will last from 7 pm today until 10 am on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, in some parts of the country, like Waterford, Cork and Kerry, this has been upgraded to an orange wind and rain warning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"FloodIreland is now bracing for intense levels of rainfall, which are expected to bring floods as Storm Austen rolls in. Pic: Brian Lawless\/PA Wire<\/p>\n

Met \u00c9ireann<\/a> has asked people to be prepared for flooding, difficult travel conditions and likely disruptions to public transport.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a grim warning, Met \u00c9ireann meteorologist Gerry Murphy claimed that it is going to be wet \u2018everywhere\u2019 in the country as heavy rainfall rolls in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking to RT\u00c9 radio\u2019s Morning Ireland,<\/a> he stressed: \u2018So, a very wet evening and night in store. Flooding is likely and that flooding is likely to be mainly surface flooding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Coastal flooding is not quite as likely on the south coast, because the winds will be blowing away, the main winds will be northwesterly.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is understood that while tides are not high enough for heavy coastal flooding, there will be issues on small river catchments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Surface flooding will be the greatest impact with regard to flooding and those counties along the south and the east coast will get the highest amounts,\u2019 Mr Murphy explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"HighIt is understood that while tides are not high enough for heavy coastal flooding, there will be issues on small river catchments.\u00a0Pic: Liam McBurney\/PA Wire<\/p>\n

The heaviest rain is set to be overnight, with those travelling on Friday morning being asked to prepare for delays as a result of flooding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Certainly for rush hour, there is likely to be floods on many of the roads and it will be a difficult enough morning for rush hour tomorrow morning in the east and indeed in the south as well.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, there will be \u2018no real let-up\u2019 for the weekend according to the meteorologist. Heavy rainfall is predicted for both Saturday and Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dublin City Council<\/a> has stressed that its flood response team is now \u2018preparing for the potential impacts of heavy rainfall across the city and has put measures in place to respond quickly should localised flooding occur.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"HeavyDublin City Council has stressed that its flood response team is now \u2018preparing for the potential impacts of heavy rainfall across the city and has put measures in place to respond quickly should localised flooding occur.\u2019\u00a0Pic: Tom Honan<\/p>\n

This has led to drastic concerns for the some 22,5000 runners set to take part in the Dublin Marathon<\/a> on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Met \u00c9ireann has stressed that conditions on the day will likely be far from favourable with heavy bouts of rainfall predicted throughout the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland is now bracing for intense levels of rainfall, which are expected to bring floods as Storm Austen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-663773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663773","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=663773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}