CO CLARE will be under an orange weather warning from 10am on Tuesday.
Senior forecaster at Met Éireann Gerry Murphy has said that Red level winds could be recorded in Clare and Kerry.
Two Status Orange wind warnings have been issued for eighteen counties across Ireland with Storm Bram anticipated to bring strong to gale force winds on Tuesday which will be strongest in coastal areas.
Clare’s weather warning is in place from 10am to 9pm and it also applies for Limerick, Galway, Tipperary, Mayo, Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Cavan, Longford, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon and Westmeath.
From 7am to 3pm, the alert is in place for Cork, Kerry, Waterford and Wexford.
All of Ireland is under a Status Yellow alert from 6am until 9pm tomorrow. A red storm warning has been issued from Mizen Head to Slyne Head to Malin Head, where south to southwest winds will occasionally reach violent storm force 11 between 9am and 11.30pm Tuesday.
Storm Bram is the second named storm of the season. Gale force southerly winds will hit coastal areas leading to the potential of flooding in low-lying zones during high tide, wave overtopping, hazardous travel, displaced debris, disruption to outdoor events and possible power outages.
Speaking at Monday’s meeting of Clare County Council, Cllr Rita McInerney (FF) noted that the red weather warning on the coast is “very important” and that the remainder of the county is under an orange warning. She expressed hope that the Council would not have to instigate an emergency response.
Connolly native Mark Dunphy of weatheire.com told The Clare Echo, “Without second-guessing what exactly Met Éireann may decide in the morning on potential warning upgrades, there is a chance that some counties could see their alert status raised based on tonight’s model output. Alongside the risk of pluvial and surface flooding overnight and into Tuesday morning, and the threat of coastal flooding in the south and west through to Thursday, current guidance indicates winds may gust in excess of 130 km/h over land on Tuesday”.
