{"id":98497,"date":"2025-10-02T06:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T06:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98497\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T06:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T06:08:09","slug":"kerry-under-status-orange-rain-warning-as-storm-amy-set-to-batter-west-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98497\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry under Status Orange rain warning as Storm Amy set to batter west coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Met \u00c9ireann has issued a Status Orange rain warning for Co Kerry, with the storm due to batter the west coast. The warning came into force at 6am today and will remain in place until 8pm.<\/p>\n

Storm Amy will bring very \u00addifficult travel conditions and is expected to cause flooding in Kerry, with the potential for further localised flooding in other counties.<\/p>\n

Schools across Kerry will \u00addecide at local level whether to postpone or delay opening times or school-bus operations given the weather forecast.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed have urged people to exercise extreme care due to the challenging conditions.<\/p>\n

Status Yellow rain warnings are also now in place for Cavan, Donegal and Longford, as well as all of Munster and Connacht, and will run until 8pm today.<\/p>\n

Separately, the entire country will be under a Status Yellow wind warning from 12pm tomorrow until 12am on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The latest track shows the centre of the front missing Ireland as it heads towards Scandinavia, but there are concerns that it will pass close enough to Ireland\u2019s north-west coast to \u00adbring damaging gale-force winds.<\/p>\n

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Friday will be a wet and very windy day<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Motorists have been warned they could face challenging driving conditions including fallen trees, storm debris and localised flooding.<\/p>\n

Met \u00c9ireann said the weather will be very unsettled over the coming days.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday will be wet and blustery with widespread heavy rain, possibly leading to localised flooding,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

\"Storm<\/p>\n

Storm Amy is expected to bring strong winds and heavy rain. Photo: PA<\/p>\n

7-Day Weather Forecast: September 29th to October 5th <\/p>\n

\u201cSoutherly winds will increase, fresh and gusty through the day, strong at times near coasts \u2013 with highest temperatures of 13C to 17C.<\/p>\n

\u201cThursday night will see rain clear to the east followed by well-scattered showers and a few clear spells.<\/p>\n

\u201cCloud will thicken in the west and south later, with patchy rain developing near south-west coasts by morning, with lowest temperatures of 9C to 12C.<\/p>\n

\u201cFriday will be a wet and very windy day, with heavy rain quickly spreading north-eastwards across the country through the morning.<\/p>\n

There will be strong to near gale-force winds, and gusty south-westerly winds will \u00addevelop as the rain spreads, with gales or strong gales possible on western and north-western coasts.<\/p>\n

\u201cRain will clear eastwards to showers in the evening with highest temperatures of 15C to 19C.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will remain windy on \u00adFriday night, with heavy showers or longer spells of rain and strong to near gale-force winds, with gales on western coasts, though winds will veer westerly and decrease fresh to strong by morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaturday will be windy or \u00adblustery with strong and gusty westerly winds. It will be a brighter day though, with sunny spells and showers if somewhat cool with highest temperatures of 12C to 15C.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be generally cloudy on Sunday, with scattered light showers and highest temperatures of 12C to 16C.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Met \u00c9ireann has issued a Status Orange rain warning for Co Kerry, with the storm due to batter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[956,9,10,440,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5602,5,28148,7,8,443,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-98497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-met-eireann","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-ralph-riegel","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-weather","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news","27":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98497","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=98497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}