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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
David Kent

Met Eireann issues brutal yellow rain warning for half of Ireland in grim update

Sixteen counties have been warned that heavy rain on Thursday night will lead to flooding - as Met Éireann issued a grim status yellow weather warning for eight hours.

The last few days have seen lovely long spells of sunshine mixed in with apocalyptic thunder and hail storms as the typical changeable weather we get in this country intensified.

Some parts of Cork remain underwater, while a gale warning also didn't help matters.

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On Thursday morning, the national forecaster had seen enough of the weather models to issue the status yellow warning for 16 counties about Thursday evening.

They said that heavy rainfall is likely to cause flooding for: Carlow, Cavan, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow. It comes into effect at 11pm on Thursday and runs until 8am on Friday.

On top of that, the UK Met Office has issued a similar warning for the six counties in Northern Ireland.

Forecasters warn "heavy rain is likely to cause some disruption and flooding in a few places on Friday" until at least 11am.

The Met Eireann predictions are backed up by Alan O'Reilly of Carlow Weather, an expert who tweeted: "A risk of over 20mm but likely over 10mm for many areas. Expect some spot flooding tomorrow morning."

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