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PA Media<\/p>\nBarra Best, weather presenter<\/p>\n
PA Media<\/p>\n
Brothers Eoin and Rory, from Antrim, with their snowman in Antrim Castle Gardens<\/p>\n
An ice warning has been issued for Northern Ireland overnight as low temperatures continue.<\/p>\n
A previous warning, issued at 18:00 GMT on Tuesday, ended at 11:00 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The new warning came into force at midnight and will last until 10:00 on Thursday, with the Met Office saying that “ice will readily form on untreated surfaces tonight bringing a risk of some disruption”.<\/p>\n
A few showers are also expected to linger, especially in counties Antrim, Londonderry, Fermanagh, and Tyrone.<\/p>\n
With rain falling onto frozen ground, the risk of icing conditions will be higher in those areas.<\/p>\n
Storm Goretti<\/p>\n
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Storm Goretti is expected to bring some disruption to parts of the Republic of Ireland on Thursday<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in the Republic of Ireland, storm Goretti is expected to bring some disruption to southern counties on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The system, which was named by the French weather service Meteo France, is expected to bring some rain as well as sleet and snow, especially over higher ground.<\/p>\n
The alert from Irish weather service, Met \u00c9ireann, lasts from noon on Thursday until 20:00 local time.<\/p>\n
Northern Ireland is set to escape the worst of Storm Goretti but warnings have been issued across southern areas of Britain, as well as France, Belgium, and The Netherlands.<\/p>\n
Are any schools still closed?<\/p>\n
Four schools were closed on Wednesday. In the north east, Duneane Primary School in Toomebridge, Magherafelt Primary School and Oakfield Primary School in Carrickfergus were shut.<\/p>\n
The Royal School Armagh was also closed.<\/p>\n
Wintry weather closed about 200 schools on Monday and more than 200 schools on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Flights, buses and recycling centres<\/p>\n
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A duck walking on a frozen lake at Black Lough outside Dungannon<\/p>\n
On Tuesday NI Water urged people to be careful around its outdoor sites, particularly reservoirs and dams, where winter conditions can create hazards.<\/p>\n
Reservoir safety and compliance area manager Derek McKane said ice was “nearly always treacherous” and people should not attempt to walk or skate on iced-over reservoirs.<\/p>\n
“Reservoirs are not safe places to play at any time of year, but winter brings extra dangers,” he added.<\/p>\n
What is the coldest it’s ever been in Northern Ireland?<\/p>\n
The lowest temperature ever recorded in NI was -18.7C at Castlederg in Tyrone during the big freeze of December 2010.<\/p>\n
The lowest temperature ever recorded on the island of Ireland was -19.1C at Markree in Sligo in January 1881.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barra Best, weather presenter PA Media Brothers Eoin and Rory, from Antrim, with their snowman in Antrim Castle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-273734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273734","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=273734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}