WEATHER UPDATE - STRONG WINDS, SEVERE GUSTS, HEAVY RAIN WITH FLOODING TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
A Spell of wet and windy weather will effect Ireland from Tuesday morning and over the early afternoon with heavy falls of rain for most especially across Western southern and eastern county's. This will be accompanied by a period of strong south easterly winds. Up to 30mm of rain is expected in some lower level areas on Tuesday morning in a short period of time with up to 40mm over higher ground and mountainous areas.
Strong winds will effect coastal county's of Connacht Munster Leinster and west and north Ulster with winds gusting between 90km/hr to 100km/hr.
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Another spell of wet and windy weather will move into southwestern areas Tuesday night and spread over the county Wednesday morning. Strong winds will also lead to severe and possible damaging gusts along coastal parts of the east, south, west and northern areas with winds gusting up to 125km/hr so a orange weather warning and possible and this storm system has also been named by the Portuguese Met Office as strong Diana
Further weather warnings are likely to be issued on Tuesday for Wednesday with the highest level warning likely to be a Orange Wind warning.
Another spell of heavy rainfall will then effect Ireland on Thursday with the ongoing risk of spot flooding especially over western and northern parts where it will turn persistent.
I will provide further updates over the next 24 hours.
Kenneth from the Donegal Weather Channel
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