{"id":310097,"date":"2026-01-29T17:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/310097\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:05:22","slug":"storm-chandra-flooding-expected-across-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/310097\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Chandra: Flooding expected across Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Storm Chandra will bring flooding to counties all over Ireland, Alan O\u2019Reilly of Carlow Weather has warned.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A yellow rain warning is in place nationwide, with heavy rainfall expected all morning and especially strong winds in the east and south.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstalk.com\/shows\/newstalk-breakfast-234855\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Newstalk Breakfast<\/strong><\/a>, Mr O\u2019Reilly said the storm snuck up on meteorologists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIt did deepen a lot quicker and a lot more intensely on the weather models in the last kind of 48 hours really,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRainfall really is one of the biggest issues we&#8217;re seeing with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve had over 50 millimetres of rainfall in parts of Wicklow since 8pm yesterday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the problem is that&#8217;s fallen on top of over 140 millimetres that already fell in the last seven days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, typically, just to give people an idea, we&#8217;d be looking at about 80 millimetres of rain, typically to 100 millimetres for a full month of January.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Storm Chandra<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1517171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2T2MJ7R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1214\"\/> A man struggles with his umbrella in Dublin. Picture by: PA Images \/ Alamy Stock Photo.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the intensity of the rainfall in parts of the country, Mr O\u2019Reilly has already received reports of flooding in parts of Wicklow and Wexford.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In other parts of the country, there is no flooding yet but the ground was already \u201ccompletely saturated\u201d due to heavy rainfall over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s why you&#8217;re going to see a lot of reports of flooding, especially in the east of the country,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, your listeners, if they&#8217;re setting out on their journey this morning, be very, very careful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not drive through a flood because I&#8217;m getting reports of a lot of areas that are impassable in parts of Wicklow and some parts of east Carlow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1497908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2M69M681.jpg\" alt=\"Rain in Cork\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"\/> Rain in Clonakilty. Picture by: AG News\/Alamy Live News<\/p>\n<p>The yellow rain warning will remain in place until 11pm today, after which the forecast will briefly brighten.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will see sunny spells and showers tomorrow, Wednesday,\u201d Mr O\u2019Reilly said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we will see more showers on Thursday &#8211; but they&#8217;re more of the showery nature rather than another one of these low systems that&#8217;s going to bring us this deluge again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main image: People huddle under umbrellas as torrential rain falls in Cork. Picture by: AG News\/Alamy Live News\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storm Chandra will bring flooding to counties all over Ireland, Alan O\u2019Reilly of Carlow Weather has warned.\u00a0 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[18,440,19,17,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-310097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115979480336777517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310097","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=310097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}