Irish weather warning ahead of Storm Austen — SkimNews
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- Storm Austen is forecast to track to Ireland's south coast Thursday evening into Friday morning, bringing risk of flooding, travel disruption, and dangerous conditions.
- Met Éireann issued an orange rain warning — the second-highest alert level — for six counties: Cork, Dublin, Kerry, Waterford, Wexford, and Wicklow.
- A nationwide yellow warning for rain and wind runs from 19:00 Thursday to 10:00 Friday local time across the Republic of Ireland.
- Northern Ireland received no warnings, though Met Éireann expects widespread rain Thursday night clearing east Friday morning.
- A second area of low pressure is forecast to track north of Ireland over the weekend, with the potential for further wet and very windy weather right across the island.
- The UK's Met Office, Ireland's Met Éireann, and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) jointly prepare an alphabetic storm-naming list, triggering a name when medium or high impacts are expected.
Why it matters: Six Irish counties sit under the second-highest rain alert ahead of Thursday evening, raising flood and dangerous-driving risk for the evening commute, and a second weekend system could stretch disruption into a multi-day stretch of travel chaos island-wide.
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