Met Éireann today (Friday, January 24) issued a Status Yellow snow and ice weather warning for Donegal that will come into effect tonight from 9:00p.m until 9:00a.m tomorrow morning (Saturday, January 25).
A Status Yellow wind warning is also in place for Donegal which is valid from 16:00p.m today until 11:00p.m.
Separately a Yellow snow and Ice weather warning has also been issued by the UK Met Office for Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Derry, which will come into effect from 7:00p.m tonight until 10:00a.m tomorrow.
Met Éireann Status Red weather warnings have now expired but the majority of the country remains under either Status Orange or Status Yellow wind warnings.
According to the National Emergency Co-ordination Group (NECG) “strong winds will continue, and conditions are expected to remain very dangerous”.
Met Éireann
The national meteorological service has warned that although winds will gradually abate from the south today it will remain very windy in northern areas until evening time.
It has also forecast that this will likely then give way to “squally showers this afternoon, merging to longer spells of rain in the north with hail and local lightning”.
According to Met Éireann there could also be some hail and isolated thunderstorms tomorrow.
Storm Éowyn
Separately ESB Networks has said that the “extreme, damaging and destructive winds” that Storm Éowyn brought across the country have continued to cause widespread and extensive damage to the electricity network.
An estimated 725,000 homes, farms and businesses currently have no power.
It has described the damage nationwide to the electricity network and impact on customers as “unprecedented”.
“ESB Networks continue to closely monitor the storm impact on power supplies and all available resources including crews and partner contractors are now deployed where safe to do so, to assess the network and work to safely restore power as quickly as possible in challenging conditions.
“From our experience of previous significant weather events and due to the severity of Storm Éowyn, we expect that power restoration will take a significant number of days and will take more than a week in the worst impacted areas,” it added.