1191 HOMES WITH NO POWER TONIGHT DUE TO LIGHTNING IN DONEGAL BEFORE STORM ALI ARRIVES
1191 homes have lost power in the Moville, and Quigleys Co.Donegal tonight ahead of storm Ali earlier this evening and tonight Mayo, Galway, Donegal & Derry see passing heavy showers some which developed into thunderstorms with white echos showing on radar and reports of heavy rain and sizable hail.
The ESB are aware of the fault and are working on getting it restored before the main wind come later this morning
The fault occurred at 23:21 tonight and is estimated to be restored at :19/09/2018 03:00
In Co. Fermanagh around Maguiresbridge 181 customers are with out power and power there is estimated to be restored at 2:45 AM, 19 September.
Below you can find a video of the lighting which passed Inishowen tonight and caused the outage
Kenneth from the Donegal Weather Channel