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110km gusts

Welcome to January: Those strong winds are set to continue for a while yet

And it’s also going to rain a lot. Great.

Updated 7.47am

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A WEATHER WARNING is due to remain in place until at least this afternoon with Met Éireann forecasting strong winds along the Atlantic coast.

Counties were battered by gusts of up to 100km/h last night.

It wasn’t exclusively for the west, however, with strong gusts making this a fairly unpleasant January morning in other parts of the country too.

Wind yuck The wind this morning at 7.45am. earth.nullschool.net earth.nullschool.net

The alert came into effect at midnight.

According to the weather service:

Strong to gale force southerly winds will develop tonight and will continue for a time tomorrow. Mean speeds of 50 to 70km/h are expected, with gusts of 90 to 110km/h. in Atlantic coastal counties.

Heavy rain is also forecast for many areas today, expected to turn to showers later. It will also stay windy throughout the day.

PastedImage-95843 The rainfall radar this morning. Yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck.

The outlook for the next few days is for unsettled weather “with mild, wet and windy or stormy conditions at times interspersed with drier, colder and less windy weather”.

Welcome to January folks.

Originally published 4.44pm. Additional reporting by Nicky Ryan.

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