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LAST UPDATE | 6 Aug 2019
A STATUS YELLOW thunder warning has been issued for 11 counties this afternoon.
The warning has been issued for Sligo, Roscommon, Cavan, Leitrim, Donegal, Monaghan, Longford, Louth, Meath, Westmeath and Dublin.
It kicked in at 4pm this afternoon and will remain valid until 9pm.
Met Éireann says heavy thundery downpours are forecast this afternoon and evening with a risk of localised flooding.
Met Éireann / TwitterScattered heavy showers for the rest of today with occasional heavy thundery downpours, especially across the northern half of the country. West to southwest breezes will remain moderate to fresh, and gusty in and around any downpours. pic.twitter.com/78rYYJaO5K
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) August 6, 2019
In general, temperatures are due to range between 17 to 21 degrees across the country today with moderate southwest breezes.
Tomorrow is due to start off mainly dry with sunny spells. Met Éireann says showers will developing in the afternoon, mainly over the northern half of the country.
Highest temperatures will range between 17 to 21 degrees with moderate westerly breezes.
Thursday is expected to be a less showery day with long periods of sunny weather with easterly breezes.
Heavy rain is due to spread in from Munster to all parts of the country overnight on Thursday.
Met Éireann says Friday will be a fairly wet day at times with showers and outbreaks of showery rain.
It will be humid with highest temperatures ranging between 17 and 22 degrees.
Looking forward to the weekend, Saturday is expected to be another very showery day while Sunday will be less showery with longer and drier sunny periods.
I can’t wait till summer
@Seamus Bridgeman: July was decent in Dublin tbf.
@Seamus Bridgeman: any idea what day summer is this year
Terrible wind here on the south coast for the last few days. Must be even gale force at times. Had a few things blown down in the garden. More than a breeze. Given up on Met EIreann at this stage.
@Paul A Whelan: I was blown out of it out walking yesterday. Breeze my bollox.
Different amounts of showeryness each day. Hosepipe ban gone?
@WoodlandBard: you’re living in the past
Whichever bit of Ireland got rain on St Swithin’s day, has a LOT to answer for
Thunder warning? Really?? What bloody harm does thunder ever do? Met Éireann is cautioning people who’s delicate hearing may be ever so slightly discommoded by some rumbly sounds they may hear over the coming hours …
@Dara O’Brien: I was just thinking the same. Rain warning sure, perhaps even lightning warning at a stretch, but a thunder warning? What has thunder ever done on anyone? Leave thunder out of it, Met Eireann!
@Dara O’Brien: You know thunder is lightning right? Thunder is the sound you hear from a lightning strike. The heat of the lightning causes the the air to expand around. Hence the bang.
@Eoin McCreary: Cheers! However the point stands – thunder is harmless – surely the lightening should be the warning factor?
@De20: read the article, heavy thundery showers with localised flooding and do you actually not know what thunder is??
Hardly warm at 16 degrees
Moist so.
@Ed: mildly moist
More scaremongering
Mad weather. Out working in it all day. Roasting one minute lashing rain the next.
A thunder warning? Seriously?
Sick of these yellow whether warning in Majorca all week said to hit 33° today how bad !!
@United Ireland: “Weather”, “warnings”. Full stop after “warnings” and “today”. Capitalize “in” and “how”, and there you go- a comment written in actual English. You’re welcome.
@George Salter: is it not “weather”? Why the capital W?
Whether its “Weather” or “weather” that is the question
@Jonny Chip: lol! I’m (I am) loving it!
@Jonny Chip: It’s at the start of a new sentence, so is capitalised. So there.
@George Salter: but its not though
@George Salter: it is the fifth word in his first sentence. I’ve counted
@Jonny Chip:
It’s the first word in @George Salter’s sentence. Should he really have capitalised it though, as he was quoting @United Ireland? Perhaps he should have used [sic]. Then again the original quote wasn’t in error. Maybe he just shouldn’t have posted at all.
@CrabaRev: I think you are on to something there CrabaRev
Enjoying the beautiful weather here in Zakynthos lol
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