LAST UPDATE | 21 Feb 2025

STATUS YELLOW WARNINGS for rainfall and wind will come into force across 12 counties on Sunday.

All of the North meanwhile will be under a Status Yellow warning for wind on Sunday.

Counties Clare, Cork, Donegal, Galway, Kerry, Limerick, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Waterford, Wexford, and Wicklow will all come under the wind and rain warning from 2am on Sunday morning.

This alert will remain in place until 3pm on Sunday afternoon.

Met Éireann is warning of very strong and gusty southerly winds, together with spells of heavy rain.

This could result in difficult travel conditions, localised flooding, fallen trees and loose debris, and poor visibility.

And then from 3pm Sunday until midnight, counties Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo will remain under a Status Yellow warning for wind, with further strong and gusty south-westerly winds.

Meanwhile, all of the North will be under a Status Yellow wind warning from 3am Sunday until 3pm.

Elapsed warnings

Several counties had been placed under similar warnings this morning.

Across Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford, and Wicklow, a  Status Yellow wind and rain warning came into place at 6am and elapsed at 10am.

The same alert had been in place across Cork and Kerry, with the warning coming into place at 4am overnight and elapsing at 8am this morning.

Meanwhile, a Status Yellow wind warning was in place across Antrim, Armagh, and Down from 6am this morning and ended at 1pm this afternoon.

The UK Met Office had warned of winds of up to 105 km/h on exposed coasts or hills in the North.

Weekend weather 

It was a wet and windy start for most today, though brighter conditions with sunny spells and scattered showers will gradually extend from the west into the afternoon, with highest temperatures of 10 to 13 degrees.

Tonight, showers will gradually retreat to Atlantic coastal counties, where some may be heavy with isolated thunderstorms and hail possible.

It’ll be mostly dry and clear further east and cooler than previous nights with lowest temperatures of 3 to 7 degrees.

It will be a bright day on Saturday, with plenty of sunshine and just a few passing showers, mainly affecting the west and northwest, with highest temperatures of 10 to 12 degrees.

Saturday night meanwhile will start out largely dry with just isolated showers but clouds will thicken from the Atlantic and rain will push eastwards across the country overnight.

Winds will increase too, with strong to gale force southerly winds developing.

It will then be a wet and windy start to Sunday, with widespread rain and some heavy falls with spot flooding possible.

The rain will gradually clear eastwards through the morning and afternoon but it will remain windy, with scattered blustery showers following from the west, some of them heavy with isolated thunderstorms.

Highest temperatures of 11 to 14 degrees in strong to gale force southwest winds.

Sunday night meanwhile will bring clear spells and scattered showers, the showers heaviest and most frequent in the west.

The wet and windy weather will continue into next week, with Monday bringing a blustery day with sunny spells and showers.

Some heavy, thundery downpours with hail are possible, with maximum temperatures of 8 to 11 degrees.