Storm Amy will bring damaging winds to the island of Ireland with every county under weather warnings on Friday, forecasters said.<\/p>\n
Wind speeds could reach up to 130km\/h along the most exposed coastal areas of the island, with fallen trees and power outages among the potential impacts.<\/p>\n
Met Eireann issued a nationwide status yellow wind warning between midday and midnight on Friday.<\/p>\n
It said Storm Amy will bring heavy rain and stormy conditions with severe and damaging gusts.<\/p>\n
It added that winds will \u201cincrease to storm or violent storm force\u201d in western and northwestern coastal areas at times during the afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n
Meteorologists said fallen trees, flying debris and difficult travelling conditions were expected.<\/p>\n
There could be gale force winds in the north west, with five counties coming under a more severe status orange wind warning.<\/p>\n
People in Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo are also warned of large waves and possible power outages.<\/p>\n
A yellow warning for rain will apply to Galway and Kerry between 9am and 3pm on Friday<\/p>\n
At sea and along the coast, there is also a status red warning from Loop Head to Rossan Point to Fair Head between 2pm and 8pm.<\/p>\n
On Saturday there will be further status yellow warnings, with wind warnings for Dublin, Louth and Wicklow between 6am and noon; a combined wind and rain warning for Donegal, Leitrim and Sligo between midnight and noon; and a wind warning for Clare, Kerry, Galway and Mayo also between midnight and noon.<\/p>\n
In Northern Ireland, a yellow wind warning is in place for the entire region between 2pm on Friday and midday on Saturday.<\/p>\n
An additional amber wind warning applies to regions of Antrim, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Derry between 3pm and 8pm.<\/p>\n
The UK Met Office said Storm Amy will likely bring a period of damaging south to southwesterly winds during the late afternoon and evening hours on Friday, with gusts of 60-70mph (97-113km\/h) inland and up to 80mph along some more exposed coasts.<\/p>\n
It said there is a \u201cgood chance\u201d that power cuts may occur, with the potential to affect other services, such as mobile phone coverage.<\/p>\n
It warned there will \u201cprobably\u201d be some damage to buildings, such as tiles blown from roofs.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, there is a risk of injury and danger to life through flying debris and large waves.<\/p>\n
The weather will also affect commuters with longer journey times and cancellations on public transport expected.<\/p>\n
Cillian Sherlock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storm Amy will bring damaging winds to the island of Ireland with every county under weather warnings on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,48121,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5602,5,28148,7,8,443],"class_list":["post-101058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-esb-group","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-met-eireann","tag-news","tag-ralph-riegel","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}