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<\/p>\nThe Met Office had issued a yellow warning for persistent and heavy rain.<\/p>\n
The warning started overnight and ended at midday on Saturday, amid warnings of flooding and possible travel disruption.<\/p>\n
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The Met Office has warned of flooding in NI this weekend. Photo: Arthur Allison\/Pacemaker Press<\/p>\n
News Catch Up – Friday 14 November <\/p>\n
The alert covered counties Armagh and Down.<\/p>\n
However, other parts of the UK and Ireland have faced major disruption as the storm swept in.<\/p>\n
And there are warnings now that snow could be on the way for parts of the UK as a cold snap arrives in the wake of Storm Claudia.<\/p>\n
Met Office deputy chief meteorologist Dan Holley said: “As Storm Claudia retreats to the south, high pressure to the north west will drive a cold northerly flow from the Arctic across the UK.<\/p>\n
“This will bring much colder conditions than of late and, whilst generally drier than recent days, there will also be a risk of wintry hazards, such as snow and ice.<\/p>\n
“There will be widespread frosts across the UK, with temperatures dipping as low as -7\u00b0C in places next week, and daytime temperatures staying in single figures across the country.<\/p>\n
“Couple this with a brisk northerly wind, and there will be a marked wind chill. This will be a notable change in our weather after a prolonged spell of above-average temperatures.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, some places are recovering from the effects of Storm Claudia.<\/p>\n
In the Irish Republic, power outages were reported and floods hit some areas.<\/p>\n
Thousands of homes and businesses were without power on Saturday morning as rain weather warnings lifted in the south-east.<\/p>\n
Dramatic flooding was reported in Portarlington, on the border of counties Laois and Offaly, despite no rain warning being issued for those counties.<\/p>\n
Fallen trees have blocked roads in parts of the Republic and social media videos appear to show sea foam being dramatically whipped onto shore at Loughshinny, Dublin and Bray, Co Wicklow.<\/p>\n
The ESB said less than 5,000 homes, farms and businesses were without power as of 9am and that crews had been responding to outages since Friday.<\/p>\n
A spokesman said the storm brought a “modest impact” to electricity infrastructure in line with previous such wind warnings.<\/p>\n
A status orange rain warning was in place for counties Dublin, Wexford and Wicklow until 8am on Saturday, while a status yellow rain warning was in place in 10 other counties, mostly along the east and south coasts, until 9am.<\/p>\n
Weather forecaster Met Eireann warned people to be alert for “significant” flooding and hazardous travelling conditions.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a major incident was declared in South Wales after “severe and widespread flooding” brought on by the “devastating” impact of Storm Claudia.<\/p>\n
Emergency services and local teams have been carrying out rescues, evacuations, welfare checks and moving Friday’s storm-hit residents to safe places since the incident was declared in Monmouth at 1.30am on Saturday, South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said.<\/p>\n
The Welsh Government said: “Storm Claudia has caused significant flooding in parts of Wales overnight, which continues to affect homes, businesses, transport and energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n
The areas cover by flood warnings include: River Monnow at Watery Lane, Over Monnow; the River Wye at Monmouth defended areas; by the River Monnow at Forge Road and Osbaston; and the River Monnow at Skenfrith.<\/p>\n
It comes as Storm Claudia, which brought heavy downpours that battered parts of England and Wales on Friday, is set to be replaced with below-freezing temperatures as a yellow alert for cold weather was issued.<\/p>\n
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued the cold weather warning for parts of the Midlands and northern England from Monday, and the Environment Agency has warned flooding will continue throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n
Storm Claudia was named by the Spanish Meteorological Agency and brought heavy rain and strong winds to Spain and Portugal this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Met Office had issued a yellow warning for persistent and heavy rain. The warning started overnight and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[779,1384,1611,1144,16,15,741],"class_list":{"0":"post-573196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-armagh-news","9":"tag-down-news","10":"tag-jessica-rice","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115556958379857930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573196","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=573196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}