A Status Yellow rain warning is currently in place for counties Carlow, Kilkenny and Wexford until 8am this morning.<\/p>\n
Met \u00c9ireann also issued a Status Yellow rain warning for County Wicklow which is in place until 9am.<\/p>\n
The same alert is in place for Louth until midday.<\/p>\n
The forecaster warned the heavy rain may cause localised flooding in the impacted counties.<\/p>\n
In Northern Ireland, the UK Met Office issued a Status Yellow rain warning for Antrim, Down and Armagh, which is in place until midday.<\/p>\n
The Met Office said the heavy rain may impact the affected areas.<\/p>\n
It comes as a Status Orange rain warning for Cork and Waterford and a Status Yellow rain warning for Cork, Kerry and Waterford have both expired.<\/p>\n
Met \u00c9ireann had warned of heavy rain and possible thundery downpours during the Orange warning in Cork and Waterford, adding that it could contribute to very difficult travelling conditions.<\/p>\n
Senior forecaster Gerry Murphy said that there was a very heavy band of rain moving up over the country last night but will gradually clear today.<\/p>\n
Mr Murphy also stressed the possibility of river flooding, especially on higher ground in mountainous areas, particularly in west Cork and possibly east Kerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Status Yellow rain warning is currently in place for counties Carlow, Kilkenny and Wexford until 8am this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-90155","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\/90155","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=90155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}