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LAST UPDATE | 5 Dec 2024
MET ÉIREANN HAS issued a slew of weather warnings today, as Storm Darragh looks set to cause severe winds and rainy conditions across the country this weekend.
Status Orange wind warnings will affect sixteen counties over the next two days - warnings will come into effect on Friday night for Kerry, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal this weekend, as well as counties Fermanagh, Armagh, Tyrone, Down, Antrim and Derry.
The Orange wind warning is valid from 10pm on Friday, and will last until 9am on Saturday.
A separate Orange wind warning will be in place for Wicklow, Wexford and Waterford on Saturday, from midnight until 9am.
Storm Darragh has been named by The UK Met Office.
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) December 5, 2024
Storm Darragh will track east across Ireland and the UK from the Atlantic on Friday night into Saturday⚠️
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Met Éireann has warned of “very difficult travelling conditions” during the storm, as fallen trees, damaged power lines, large sea waves and damaged property are expected.
The Road Safety Authority haved urged motorists to take extra precaution when driving, and to drive slower, allowing greater braking distance between themselves and the vehicle in front in wet weather conditions.
The RSA also warned drivers to watch for falling debris on roads, avoid flooded areas and to give extra space to vulnerable road users such as cyclists or motorcyclists.
With Storm Darragh approaching, there are a number of weather warnings in place for the coming days, including orange and yellow warnings for wind and rain.
— RSA Ireland (@RSAIreland) December 5, 2024
Road users are advised that this could lead to difficult travel conditions.
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Keith Leonard, National Director of the National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management, urged the public to stay away from coastal areas during this period and “to heed the appeal from the Irish Coast Guard for people to ‘Stay Back, Stay High, Stay Dry’.”
“Most of the country will be impacted by strong winds and everyone should take extra care. In particular, this storm may bring dangerous travelling condition,” Leonard said.
Strong winds can make driving conditions hazardous, especially for more vulnerable road users such as cyclists, pedestrians, motorcyclists and high-sided vehicles, and road users should pay particular attention to the risk posed by fallen trees and flying debris.
“There is also potential for localised flooding in some areas, so it’s important to remember to never drive through flooded roads, as the depth of the water can be deceiving.”
A nationwide Status Yellow wind warning will also be in place nationwide on Friday night.
The national weather forecaster has said that it will be an “extremely windy or stormy” weekend with heavy rain, which will give way to clear spells and occasional showers, some of hail or sleet. The showers will be most widespread across the north and west, but will make their way across the country too in fresh to strong and gusty northwest winds.
A number of Status Yellow weather warnings also came into in effect this afternoon.
A Yellow Wind Warning came into effect from midday today in Kerry, followed by similar wind warnings in Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal from 1pm.
An Amber wind warning has been issued for all of Northern Ireland on Saturday – Wind Warning for Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry
Eoin Sherlock, head forecaster with Met Éireann, has said naming storms has proven effective in raising awareness of extreme weather. He said it “increases the level of public safety and preparedness as people are more likely to remember and respond to warnings when storms are named”.
ESB Networks is highlighting dangers posed by fallen live wires and is advising the public and the emergency services to stay away from these fallen cables and to report such cases to it immediately to 1800 372 999.
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Makes the Anglo “deal”, look even worse.
Unless Ireland can outperform the Euro zone by 1% every year for the next 40 year, inflation will not decrease the burden it will add to it.
Michael Noonan “forgot” (read refused), to tell us what the banks have legally had to tell us for years, “Past performance is no indication of future performance”.
For the benefit of readers who might not understand what you’re getting at, Eurostat figures put Inflation in the Eurozone at 2.0% in the year to January 2013.
Basic 101 economics ‘The Law of Diminishing Returns’
Austerity really working I see.
It is working! For the billionaires that is.. their wealth is increasing rapidly.. look it up yourselves.
Look at the situation from the perspective of its creators.
And is anyone really surprised by this? What exactly is it going to take to make the Germans realise that austerity economics is not working – you can’t cut your way out of a recession.
It’s not entirely bad news for Ireland. It means that interest rates are unlikely to rise at any time in the near future, which will be a relief to anyone who owes any significant debt.
So who profited on the 0.6% debt increase?
The economy dropped 0.6% in the forth quarter of 2012.
Debt is a different issue. I don’t know understand what you’re saying. ? Sorry
The debt based money system we use is essentially a ponzi scheme. As money is only created through debt and it demands payment with interest it is mathematically impossible to pay down all debts. The system must grow exponentially to feed the new money creation. Unfortunately permanent exponential growth is also mathematically impossible. By taking on the debts of the sick monsters who would enslave us our government has sold us down the river and up the swanny. We can just hope against hope that the system’s bubble reinflates itself long enough for us to dig ourselves out of this. The future of this country depends upon this very dodgy gamble…
Very well said John.
Try telling that Jack Bowden, 2 comments up. He didnt get what I was hinting at.
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