10 counties will come under a status orange wind warning later, as Storm Darragh approaches.
Kerry, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal will be affected from 10 o’clock tonight until 9 tomorrow morning.
A similar alert will come into place for Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow from midnight – while a status yellow rain warning will kick in for 13 counties across the northern half of the country from 10 o’clock this morning.
The rest of the country falls under a 24-hour status yellow wind warning from 3 o’clock this afternoon.
Alan O’Reilly from Carlow Weather forecasts; “A very wet day today with the heaviest of the rain moving in this morning through this afternoon, it will break up a little bit later this evening but still some very heavy showers and then the very strong winds will come after that with the strongest of the winds through this afternoon, this evening and into tonight, the strongest of the winds really moving in after 9pm”.
