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LAST UPDATE | 22 Jan
MET ÉIREANN HAS extended status Red wind weather warnings to all counties on Friday.
A Status Red wind warning for Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Waterford will be in effect from 2am until 10am on Friday.
A Status Red wind warning will come into effect for Clare and Galway from 3am and remain in place until midday.
The Status Red wind warning for Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo will be in place from 4am until midday.
Cavan, Monaghan, Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wicklow, Roscommon, Tipperary will all be under a Status red wind warning from 6am until midday.
Donegal will be under a Status Red wind warning from 6am to 3pm.
Met Éireann has also issued a Status Yellow rain warning for Cork, Kerry and Waterford that will be in place from 9pm on Thursday until 3am on Friday.
The Met Office has issued an Amber warning on counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Derry from 6am on Friday until 9pm.
A Status Orange wind warning will be in place across the whole country from 2am until 5pm on Friday.
Met Éireann has warned that the storm will bring “damaging and destructive” gale force winds with gusts of up to 130km/h.
Keith Leonard, the chair of the National Emergency Co-ordination Group (NECG) has said the incoming weather system will probably be among the “severest storms” that Ireland has ever seen.
Leonard told RTÉ the number of people who will lose power will likely top the 385,000 figure that came with Storm Ophelia in 2017.
The NECG added that public transport does not operate during red weather warnings, and operators will make assessments on when to resume services after the warnings have been lifted.
Air and ferry passengers seeking updates regarding specific flights or ferry crossings, should contact their airline or ferry operator directly.
The group also advised that employers in red level areas should facilitate their employees working from home where possible, and said only emergency service workers should be leaving home for work, “where directed by their employer”.
People are being warned to expect fallen trees, damage to power lines and power outages.
The electricity network is expected to be severely impacted, and the public are advised to prepare for the arrival of the storm including ensuring their mobile phone is fully charged to enable communication.
The current warnings for #StormÉowyn are posted below.
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) January 22, 2025
Please stay up to date with https://t.co/XIjOm8VbJ1 and check your local authority advice for further information.
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Now you can panic! Tesco’s and the rest will be bedlam on Thursday!
@Gary Kearney: Kites R Us will sell out bigly
@Gary Kearney: Gusts upto 180kmph in parts of the West Coast according to Windy
@Gary Kearney: Why? It’ll be over in a few hours
Shame on SF for bringing our national parliament into disrepute, today is indeed, a dark day in Irish politics
@pee wee: Away and shite ye wee bollix
@Anthony Curran: you OK hun?
@pee wee: What’s that got to do with weather warnings?
@pee wee: ye big lefty
@biggybald: just meeting their chronic need for attention
@Anthony Curran: Ha Ha Deadly, quote of the day .
@pee wee: He’s fine…you’re the sad little government cheer leader…just shut up and go away u half-wit!
@pee wee: Shame on politicians who will be part of the government but claiming to be in opposition. It’s the same as a GAA player who scores and playes .for both teams
@pee wee: Wrong thread
@pee wee: you remind me of David Brent.
@pee wee: go away you sad, pathetic little child
@pee wee: Did you mean to refer to “An Dáil”?
@pee wee: idolisation for ‘shinners’ is what you have… deep down, admit it doe boy.
@pee wee: sure sure
What ever
@pee wee: sap
@pee wee: i hope the soup was nice for lunch after your vigorous defence of the royals earlier.
@pee wee: absolute waffle. Comments aren’t even closed on these stories the way they are for many unpopular government decisions of late on journal and others – This gov plans to bring in Michael Lowry who should be in jail. it’s a dark day when they re elect him which means it’s always a dark day in that part of Leinster. Family people who look their kids in the eyes after voting for career criminals
Be busy out at salthill diving board…
@John Brown: be sure to park the car in the flooding car park and get a new 251 with a little help from your insurance company
@John Brown: Unfortunately there’ll always be a few c l o w n s about who want their 5 minutes of fame quite happy to put the lives of the rescue services personall at risk.
Let them swim I say.
@John Brown: Didn’t RTE warn people not to be swimming in the sea during a storm!
@Harry Paisley: you going to go out to save them??? Thought not…
Why is the North Orange?
@Conor O’Brien: this should be fun!!!!!
@Conor O’Brien: That’s not a simple answer unfortunately
@Conor O’Brien: The north base colours on damage expected, republic base it on wind speed etc.
@Conor O’Brien: I think I learned about it in history class a while back. Did Met Eireann do something about a plantation? Definitely a guy named William involved, think he was a meteorologist?
@Conor O’Brien: Orange you glad you’re not red.
@Liam O Sullivan: I don’t know if you’re taking the P or not but I received an A1 in Geography back in the day and we defo didn’t separate the biological or environmental issues of this Island based on borders.
@Conor O’Brien: That would be an ecumenical matter!
@Donna Fallon: hold on ’til I get the medal out for ye…. “A1 in Geography”….
@Conor O’Brien: stupid map. Lazy and disrespectful
Now is when we need the journal to start a fresh story and give all the current data rather than cutting and pasting bits into the existing article.
@Peter Finnigan: you need boards.ie for that.
@Peter Finnigan: Your needs are petty in all views
@Peter Finnigan: It’d be great if they could update their map to include met Office details. It’s not one bit helpful for the border counties the way it is
@Thesaltyurchin: oh… Now I feel silly
Just got a trolley full of bread and another of toilet rolls in. U never know
@barry williams: get real for 6 hours dublin under a red warning ⚠️ say home
@Alan Moloney: sounds like he’s expecting a brown warning. Best to stock up in that case.
@barry williams: and here I read you got another toilet roll in, I mean, you can never be too prepared, but if it’s one of those portaloos, you’d better make sure it’s tied down properly, or you may go for a ride while using it
@barry williams: I can never understand the panic buying of toilet rolls, if there’s going to be no food in the shops, that must mean there’ll be a much reduced need for bog rolls!
Hopefully it destroys the plantation in clonmel
@Freda Peeple: Bitter much “Freda”? How hateful you are wishing that on anyone.
@Anthony Curran: He is only saying what the majority are thinking!
@Andrew Martin: Doubt it. The majority are sympathetic and welcoming.
The spelling ‘Eowyn’ is very jarring.
be the holy!!!
Perfect conditions to climb croagh Patrick
Insane wind speeds if predicated, a cat 1 hurricane is 120–150kph they’re throwing 175 out rn. Clare and Galway should spend all day tomorrow making sure the kegs are full!
@Thesaltyurchin: those hurricane force winds are sustained winds. We’ll get gusts well in excess of that, but the sustained winds will be far less than hurricane force, thankfully. Still it will be a windy one. Definitely not the day to be taking unnecessary journeys
4 mile away from Tipperary border so why no red alert in Kilkenny
@Lonely Are the Brave.: your too far from the sea
@Lonely Are the Brave.: Counties are used for alerts as people, like you, know where they are. Imagine if the warning said ‘a lot of the northern part of kildare’ or similar. Would that include Kildare town itself? Naas? Who knows. So the err on the side of caution and include the whole county.
@P. V. Aglue: kilkenny could be coastal by the weekend
@Lonely Are the Brave.: get on to Michael Lowery.Isn’t he youre local representative.Anyway the only time there will be a red alert in Kilkenny is when those Tipp lads get strong in the hurling again.
@Lonely Are the Brave.: You’ve been included since your comment was posted… sorted.
Jackets up and over……. Direct flight to work
Awhhhh Man!!… I honestly hope that I’m blown away from this absolute joke of a Country. Have my red stilettos ready.
@Donna Fallon: meaow
Let’s see….
Any bread left anywhere don’t see anything left
Met Éireann are soft boys
Wonder Are RTE and Irish Independent going to blame and frame it on Sinn Fein
@Kevin O Brien: Are SF the reason that an Atlantic Storm is approaching? Normally, SF is going the other way across the Atlantic to charge 5k a plate dinner, they ie SF still can’t get into government… Once, Twice and Three times a failure , that’s the reality…..
In March those dinners will be 10 bob
Éowyn?! Who made that name up?
@Ulick: Welsh
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