{"id":174713,"date":"2025-11-11T09:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/174713\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:43:09","slug":"spot-flooding-in-cork-as-yellow-rainfall-status-to-continue-until-2pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/174713\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot flooding in Cork as yellow rainfall status to continue until 2pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Motorists and commuters are being asked to take care this morning as heavy rainfall overnight, which is forecast to continue until this afternoon, has made many Cork roads treacherous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The county, along with neighbour Kerry, is currently under a yellow status rainfall warning, which will not expire until 2pm today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Several roads are already experiencing challenging flood conditions, especially in West Cork, where low lying areas are under water as the rain continues to fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">With a high tide having just passed, some flooded areas will begin to recede, but many are still under threat from the forecasted heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            SPOT FLOODING\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Land around Bantry, Skibbereen and Clonakilty is experiencing spot flooding and drivers are asked to proceed with caution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The national M8 route between Mitchelstown and Cahir is reported to be flooded, along with areas around Inchigeela and Dromahane also hit. The Ardcahan bridge between Dunmanway and Coppeen, a popular artery for commuters from West Cork to the city, is closed for the second time in a week due to flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">City areas affected by spot flooding include a section of Magazine Road beyond Dennehy\u2019s Cross and on the busy Carr\u2019s Hill commuter route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists and commuters are being asked to take care this morning as heavy rainfall overnight, which is forecast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[781,2737,18,440,24153,19,17,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-174713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-cork-city-centre","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-flooding","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115530419930437594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174713","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=174713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}