A yellow rain warning is in place until the early hours of Sunday morning for counties across the country. While it is not predicted to be severe, Ireland is still reeling from the destruction of last week's storm, Storm Babet.
Met Éireann have set a yellow rain warning in place for counties Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Wexford and Wicklow.The warning will come into place at 5pm today and is set to last until 4am Sunday morning, causing possible travel disruptions across the weekend.
Met Éireann say the yellow rain warning includes: “A spell of heavy or thundery rain combined with saturated ground conditions”. According to Met Éireanns forecast, “Rain will develop in the southeast later this afternoon and will move north and westwards through the evening, heavy and perhaps thunderous at times with local flooding possible.As for tonight, Met Éireann suggest that the southwest may escape the worst of the rain later into the night tonight.
As another rain warning looms, we are reminded of the floods of Storm Babet last week, which destroyed several homes and businesses in Midleton, Co. Cork.
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