- Met Éireann has issued rain warnings for 13 counties today. In Dublin and Wicklow, orange warnings will run until 3pm. In Louth the orange warning will be in effect until 6pm, while in Waterford it will expire at 9am today.
- Yellow warnings will be in place for Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Wexford and Tipperary until 9am, while the same warnings will stay in place in Cavan, Meath and Monaghan until 6pm.
- Antrim, Armagh, Down, Tyrone and Derry are also under status yellow rain warnings issued by the UK Met Office until 11.59pm Friday.
- The National Emergency Coordination Group urged people in Dublin, Louth, Wicklow and Waterford to work from home on Friday if possible.
- A number of rail services were cancelled on Thursday due to flooding and debris on several lines.
A number of train and DART services have been suspended due to the weather conditions and flooding. Bus transfers are available, and Iarnród Éireann is reminding people that LEAP cards are valid on all TFI services in the affected areas.
Services currently cancelled:
- 05:35 Rosslare/Connolly, bus transfers to Connolly
- 05:45 Gorey/Connolly, bus transfers to Connolly
- 07:10 Rosslare/Connolly will operate to Wicklow, bus transfers from Wicklow to Connolly
Additionally, the Malahide to Howth Junction DART and Northern Commuter are suspended due to a mechanical fault with a maintenance vehicle, which Iarnród Éireann are working to rectify. Bus transfers available from Rosslare / Gorey to Wicklow / Bray, with debris and flooding on line.
Timings for weather warnings across the country
The Status Orange warning for Waterford is due to end at 9am this morning, while the Orange warnings for Dublin and Wicklow expire at 3pm.
The full list of warnings and their timings are as follows:
Orange
- Dublin, Wicklow: warning valid to 3pm Friday
- Waterford: warning valid to 9am Friday
- Louth: warning valid to 6pm Friday
Yellow
- Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Wexford, Tipperary: warning valid to until 9am Friday
- Cavan, Monaghan, Meath: warning valid to 6pm Friday
- Antrim, Armagh, Down, Tyrone, Derry: warning valid to midnight Friday
Met Éireann updated weather forecast
Met Éireann’s latest forecast, updated at 5am this morning, says it will be a very wet, cloudy and blustery morning, with rain continuing to spread north.
Rain is expected to be heaviest in the east and northeast with the continued risk of flooding.
It will stay rather overcast into the afternoon as the rain becomes confined to Ulster and scattered showers follow in from the south, the forecaster said.
The forecast shows it’s due to stay cloudy and rather wet with scattered showers into the night, with showers will at their heaviest and most persistent across Munster. There’ll be asterly breezes and lows of 3 to 6 degrees with some mist patches forming overnight too.
