Christmas night and St. Stephen's day weather update - risk of heavy rain for parts and possible coastal flooding
A band of rain will push into the southwest of Ireland Christmas night and extend Northwards on St. Stephen's morning with rain turning heavy in places for a time. A Status yellow rainfall warning may be issued for some places for Stephens day with rainfall amounts of between 20mm to 30mm and possibly higher amounts over mountainous areas in the southwest with up to 40mm.
The area of low pressure located of the southwest coast on Christmas night will move northwards of the west coast on St. Stephen's day but does not look as strong as it did a few days ago but will still bring moderate to strong winds in places particularly across Atlantic coastal counties of Munster, Connacht and west Ulster.
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Winds will gust between 50km/hr to 80km/hr and there is a small risk of a wind warning been issued and if so it would be on the lower end of the scale for a yellow warning.
Along southwest, western and possible northwestern coastal counties winds could gust between 70km/hr to 100km/hr for a time with perhaps a yellow wind warning for counties there.
Winds first will be southeasterly in direction veering southerly and then to a southwesterly direction on Thursday.
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Winds will be strongest on Christmas night up until St. Stephen's evening.
This area of low pressure will not be strong enough to class as a storm and will not be as strong as storm Elsa which hit Ireland last week.
With the direction of the wind this will potentially lead to the small risk of Coastal flooding along coastal areas of the southwest and west so beware along all Atlantic coastal areas on St Stephen's morning and throughout the day particularly around high tide which will be spring tides.
Donegal Weather Channel will continue to monitor the area of low pressure today and Christmas day for any changes to the area of low pressure occur.
There is a small outside chance that when this area of low pressure moves northwards up along the west coast it could deepening further but there are no indications of this at present.
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