A Status Orange wind warning has been issued for the entire country this Friday in preparation for Storm Éowyn.
Storm Éowyn will lash the country with “severe, damaging and destructive winds” and gusts of up to 130km/h widely, with even higher gusts for a time.
Met Eireann’s alert will be in place from 2am Friday morning until 5pm that evening.
The storm will also bring spells of heavy rain across different parts of the country and sleet and snow to parts of the west and north in particular.
The potential impacts included fallen trees, damage to power lines and subsequent power outages, structural damage to buildings, extremely difficult travel conditions, disruptions and cancellations to transportation, and wave overtopping.
Western and northwestern counties are expected to experience the strongest force of the storm as it is forecast to track to the northwest of Ireland.
