Storm Boelo has brought severe wind and rain to the south, southwest and north of Ireland with Status Orange weather alerts in effect for a number of counties.<\/p>\n
Some 13,000 homes and businesses are without power, the ESB said, adding that further outages are expected throughout the night.<\/p>\n
Severe winds are impacting northern and western counties as the storm tracks to the north of the country.<\/p>\n
A Status Orange wind warning came into effect from 2pm yesterday for counties Donegal, Leitrim, Galway, Mayo and Sligo, until 9am this morning.<\/p>\n
A Status Red marine warning has been issued, with Met \u00c9ireann warning of a “violent” marine storm from Rossan Point to Bloody Foreland to Fair Head.<\/p>\n
The forecaster says that Storm Boelo will being westerly winds which will reach violent storm force 11 at times.<\/p>\n
The warning came into effect at 7pm yesterday evening and is in effect until 6am today.<\/p>\n
In Northern Ireland, a Status Amber warning will be in place for counties Derry and Antrim from 9pm this evening to 9pm tomorrow evening.<\/p>\n
In Kerry, there are fears that the rainfall could lead to flooding as the county had already experienced significant rain during Storm Austen yesterday.<\/p>\n
A Status Yellow wind warning for Donegal is in place until midday.<\/p>\n
A Status Yellow rain warning for counties Clare, Cork, Donegal, Galway, Kerry, Leitrim, Limerick, Mayo and Sligo is currently in place until 9am Sunday.<\/p>\n
A Status Orange rain warning for counties Kerry and Galway ended at 2pm today.<\/p>\n
Met \u00c9ireann has warned of possible impacts stemming from Storm Boelo, including damage to homes and businesses, disruption and delays to public transport.<\/p>\n
Other impacts include difficult travelling conditions, disruption to outdoor events and flooding.<\/p>\n
Members of the public have been warned of potentially large coastal waves, dangerous conditions at sea, damage to power lines, power outages and fallen trees.<\/p>\n
Small number of flights have been cancelled<\/p>\n
Dublin Airport has said that a small number of flights were cancelled due to strong winds associated with Storm Beolo.<\/p>\n
In a post on social media, the airport said that as of 12pm yesterday five outbound flights and four inbound have been cancelled by airlines.<\/p>\n
It said that there may be further disruption as winds are forecast to increase as the day goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storm Boelo has brought severe wind and rain to the south, southwest and north of Ireland with Status…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-664499","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\/664499","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=664499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}