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MET ÉIREANN has issued a weather warning over potentially damaging gusts of wind which could reach up to 140km per hour today.
The weather service says that storm conditions will be most severe in northern and north-western areas this morning, and warns of winds reaching up to storm force 11 on all Irish coasts today.
Heavy rain early today is expected to fade somewhat into showers later this morning.
Thousands of homes, most of which are in the west and north-west, are without electricity this morning due to the storms, according to Newstalk. The ESB says its emergency teams are working to restore power.
AA Roadwatch is warning motorists to be wary of fallen branches and trees this morning on all roads, with trees blocking:
Trees are also partially blocking traffic on: the N6 Athlone bypass at the top of the ramp of the J10 Ballymahon exit; the N63 Longford to Lanesborough Road; the N13 Letterkenny to Ballbofey Road near Kilross, Co Donegal; the Ratoath Road in Kilbride and the Tara Road in Dunsaney, Co Meath.
Meanwhile, the Carlow to Athy Road (the R417) is flooded in places, as are parts of the Borrisoleigh to Templemore Road (the R501) in Co Tipperary.
Conor Faughnan said this morning on RTÉ Radio One that drivers should exercise particular caution on the roads this morning and maintain safe stopping distances with the vehicle in front due to excess surface water on the roads and the windy conditions. Gardaí are advising motorists to drive with their lights on and allow extra time for their journeys today.
Anyone due to fly today is advised to check the status of their flight before leaving for the airport as there are may be some delays.
If you know of any blocked or flooded roads along your route, share the details with other drivers in the comments below.
They don’t build things there like the Romans did to last for millenia.
@Tim McCormack29: Not when the Mafia is building it.
@Pat Lonergan: smug and ignorant comment, some knowledge of topography rather than Netflix would be a plus.
Never happened before……must be climate change,
@Eugene Conroy: comment deleted for stating climate has been changing since year dot !!!
@SF Knee Knockers: two words! “Happening faster”. Try and keep up.
@Paul Furey: faster than what…earth billions of years old..human records only for a few 100 years…climate has been changing forever.. faster slower faster.
Ligurian infrastructure is in such a state. No area of europe has suffered so much with bridge collapses despite the fact that they pay the highest road tolls in Europe, and most of the motorways there consist vastly of viaducts like this, which were said to have been audited after the last collapse.
@.: it’s probably the most corrupt country in the Europe. Millions of EU grant money has just disappeared into black holes and is untraceable.
@Conoroconnor: I read about how mafia ran most of the construction in certain parts of Italy. Never had any competition so they where awarded all the civil contracts.
@Conoroconnor: as an Italian myself I am afraid I have to agree. Left Italy decades ago but very little seems to have changed and corruption seems still incredibly widespread
@Robbie Clancy: No5nonly that but they provided sub-standard concrete and Steele to state projects and in turn bribed construction standards authority overseers to turn a blind eye. Modern Italy is crumbling. The motorways are the worst in western Europe.
@Attilio: the thing is, I love italy. A truly beautiful country with some of the most unspoiled countryside, incredible old walled towns, lovely people and the best food in the world. Such a shame.
@Conoroconnor: well then jump in your Ferrari and enjoy some of the best roads, best scenery, best food by a mile, wine and best people. I’m not Italian but I have family there and I dislike it being disparaged despite it being 10 times the country ours is.
@Mike McGann: most of my italian friends would agree with my assessment of the corruption. Like I said, it’s a pity because it is otherwise such a great country & great people I’m not saying we are that much better, by the way. but I spoke with people in Apulia who were in awe of how Ireland has used it’s a EU Grant’s for redevelopment over the years, as over there the money just disappears with little or no obvious development having taken place. The mechanisms of the Italian state have also taken bureaucracy to a whole new level. These are the faults with the place, but I really love Italy and its people. In many ways, public transport for example, ithey way ahead of us. By the way, I go cycling there once a year and their smaller roads are in as bad of condition as ours, if not worse.
@Conoroconnor: Great country. I’m regularly there. Was only there last week. I’m I correct in saying this road from Genoa to Ventimiglia was constructed not long after WW2 originally. Are some of these structures from the 50s & 60s?
For those putting this down to poor Italian infrastructure, this is also happening in the French Alps where least 2 people have died. There is an unprecedented level of flooding happening. Put this together with Venice recently and parts of England that experienced an absolute monumental deluge, and you have a pattern of highly unusual weather events that are fully predicted by climate change.
https://amp.breakingnews.ie/world/two-dead-as-floods-hit-france-and-italy-966261.html
@Paraic: You must be racking up the brownie points with Cookie and Dana at Skeppie Science.
@Tommy Roche: How many troll accounts is it now that you’ve racked up?
better get used to it whatever the reason the climate is a changing.
Made with mafia Concrete!!!!!!
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