{"id":812336,"date":"2026-10-24T10:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812336\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:40:10","slug":"storm-boelo-rain-warning-begins-in-england-and-wales-as-storm-boelo-hits-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812336\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Boelo: Rain warning begins in England and Wales as Storm Boelo hits UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish Sea ferry crossings cancelled as Storm Boelo hitspublished at 10:23 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:23 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\">Ralph Hewitt<br \/>BBC News NI<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo of the entrance to the Port of Belfast, a lorry driving towards it\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/14111951-814f-41f4-806d-4f47ea9f13ef.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sailings between Belfast, Liverpool and Cairnryan, near Stranraer, have been cancelled today, as well as those from Dublin and Holyhead, due to the bad weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office has a yellow weather warning for wind across Northern Ireland which started at 10:00 BST, while the north coast of the country will be placed under an amber warning from 21:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, the Republic of Ireland\u2019s meteorological service Met \u00c9ireann has issued several Status Yellow and Orange wind warnings for a number of counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Belfast International Airport and Dublin Airport are advising passengers to check with their airline for the latest status of their flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c6gqwz79ylw4o\" class=\"ssrcss-ztter6-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preparation for the storm<\/a>, Northern Ireland\u2019s Department of Infrastructure has said their teams have been checking and clearing road gullies, monitoring river levels and tidal surges, and deploying a portion of temporary flood defences.<\/p>\n<p>      You can read more about the warnings in place for Northern Ireland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c83vqn2x54v1o\" class=\"ssrcss-ztter6-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in our story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish Sea ferry crossings cancelled as Storm Boelo hitspublished at 10:23 BST 10:23 BST Ralph HewittBBC News NI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}