The Met Office<\/a> yellow alert applies from 6am on Thursday until 9pm across all six counties. <\/p>\n\u201cHeavy rain and thunderstorms will move northwards across Northern Ireland during Thursday and may lead to some disruption in places,\u201d it warns. <\/p>\n
“The rain will be locally heavy with thunderstorms.<\/p>\n
“A few places perhaps receiving 10-20 mm of rain in an hour, and 30-40 mm in 3 hours or less, leading to a risk of disruption.<\/p>\n
\u201cWinds will also be strong at times, perhaps gusting to 40-45 mph around hills and coasts.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the weather forecaster, driving conditions could be affected by spray, standing water and possibly hail. <\/p>\n
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Previous lightening strike in Omagh (Photo by Cara Coll Photography).<\/p>\n
News Catch Up – Wednesday 11th June 2025<\/p>\n
Travellers have been advised to expect longer journey times by car and bus. <\/p>\n
Delays to train services are also possible<\/p>\n
The yellow warning states that some flooding is likely which could lead to damage to homes and businesses. <\/p>\n
Short term loss of power and other services is also likely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Previous lightening strike in Omagh (Photo by Cara Coll Photography). A weather warning for thunderstorms has been issued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[23196,1144,16,15,741],"class_list":{"0":"post-175391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-brett-campbell","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114664231740139752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}