Northern Ireland can expect another 10 days of rain according to the Met Office, after a wetter January than usual.

With no signs of the drab weather coming to an end, there is a yellow and amber weather warning for wind and rain in place across the region, as we brace for Storm Chandra.

The first named storm of the year for Northern Ireland is due to sweep the country on Tuesday, with a yellow warning for rain in place until Wednesday. The amber warning for wind is impacting Co Antrim, Down and Derry between 5am and 9pm on Tuesday.

The Met Office is warning that we’re likely to see delays, cancellations to public transport and air services could well be affected. There is a potential for flooding and some local power cuts as well.

Marco Petagna from the Met Office told The Irish News January 2026 is experiencing more rain than the same month in previous years, with no sign of it brightening up at all.

He added: “We’ve certainly seen more than the normal amount of rain for January, 129mm for the province so far this month, which is 112% of normal. We are already above what we’d normally get for the whole month of January on average… with much more rain to come.

“There’s a lot of rain today (Monday) and there’s further rain sweeping across Northern Ireland over the next 24 hours as well. It will look very unsettled. We’ve got a yellow rainfall warning out for Northern Ireland all the way through now till midnight tonight.

“We could see 10 to 40 millimetres, which is one and a half inches or so of rain for the rest of the day today (Monday) and that’s ahead of then some very disturbed weather pushing up from the south as Storm Chandra pushes up.

“We have an amber warning out for wind and we’re talking about gusts fairly widely going into tonight and tomorrow, increasing to around 40 to 50 miles an hour. But towards the north and east of the province, we could see gusts of 60 to 70, possibly even locally 75 miles an hour, which could cause a few problems as we go into Tuesday.

“And as well as that… a further 20 to 70 millimetres of rain is possible. So that’s another one to three inches of rain on top of what we’ve got today.

“We have got further wet and windy weather, and further warnings are also quite possible…The wet weather is expected to continue certainly the next seven to ten days, and potentially a little bit beyond that as well.”