{"id":4466,"date":"2025-08-17T08:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4466\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T08:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:18:11","slug":"met-eireann-warns-of-flooding-and-lightning-risk-in-cork-and-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4466\/","title":{"rendered":"Met \u00c9ireann warns of flooding and lightning risk in Cork and Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The warning, issued at 5pm on Saturday, remains in effect until 8pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">During this period, the forecaster warns of difficult travel conditions, localised flooding, and possible lightning damage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a0\ufe0fStatus Yellow &#8211; Thunderstorm warning for Cork, Kerry\u26a0\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Thunderstorms across parts of west Cork and Kerry \u26c8\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Potential impacts:<br \/>\u2022 Difficult travelling conditions <br \/>\u2022 Localised flooding <br \/>\u2022 Lightning damage<\/p>\n<p>Valid: 17:06 Saturday 16\/08\/2025 to 20:00 Saturday 16\/08\/2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lhKNAJA3E2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/lhKNAJA3E2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Met \u00c9ireann (@MetEireann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetEireann\/status\/1956751222867673121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">For the rest of the weekend, Met \u00c9ireann says conditions will remain warm and humid on Saturday night, with a mix of cloud and clear spells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Showers will linger in the south and west, but the rest of the country should stay largely dry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Temperatures will not drop below 10C to 16C, with light breezes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Sunday, the forecaster predicts a mix of cloudy periods and sunny spells, with mostly dry conditions overall. Patchy rain and a few showers are possible in the southwest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Temperatures will reach 19C to 26C, with moderate east to southeasterly breezes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">By Sunday night, lingering showers will clear early, leaving a mix of cloud and clear spells.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Conditions will remain humid, with temperatures not falling below 14C to 17C.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The warning, issued at 5pm on Saturday, remains in effect until 8pm. During this period, the forecaster warns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[781,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,443],"class_list":{"0":"post-4466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","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=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}