It’s about to get wet…
Met Éireann has issued a status yellow rainfall warning that will affect five counties.
The warning affects Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal and was issued just after 11am on Monday.
The warning will be active from 1pm on Monday until 5am on Tuesday and warns of heavy rain at times on Monday afternoon and Monday night, with falls of 25 to 40 mm expected and a risk of local flooding.
A warning had previously been issued by Met Éireann which just affected Mayo and Galway, but that warning has been extended.
Two separate depressions in the Atlantic are also thought to be heading towards Ireland and are predicted to arrive in the next few days.
While some outlets have already begun referring to depressions in the Atlantic as Storm Ali and Storm Bronagh, Met Éireann confirmed to JOE yesterday that neither of the depressions had been named yet and clarified that only they or the UK Met Office have the authority to name the storms.
“Only us here in Met Éireann, and those working the UK Met office can name these storms. What people are seeing are depressions in the Atlantic, and assuming that they will become named storms, and that is not the case,” Met Éireann said.
Met Éireann take each depression on a case-by-case basis, but said that should these depressions become named storms, it would usually be “within 36 hours” of them arriving in Ireland.
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