Change to red weather alert for midlands

The red warning in place tomorrow for the midlands has been amended.

A new warning, issued this morning, by Met Éireann, for wind, reduces the length of the warning period.

Met Éireann said Storm Éowyn would result in gale to storm force southwest to west winds with extreme, damaging and destructive gusts in excess of 130km/h.

The new red warning for wind comes into effect at 6am on Friday, and expires at 11am.

This is a one-hour reduction in the time period covered by yesterday's warning, which was due to expire at 12noon.

Met Éireann is warning of the danger to life, extremely dangerous travelling conditions, unsafe working conditions, disruption and cancellations to transport, many fallen trees, significant and widespread power outages, impacts to communications networks, cancellation of events, structural damage, wave overtopping and coastal flooding in low-lying and exposed areas.

The latest red warning for wind covers 13 counties, including Westmeath, and Roscommon.

The full list of counties under this particular red warning for wind are Cavan, Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Tipperary, Westmeath, and Wicklow

The red warning for rain, which had been in place yesterday for this region on Friday, has now been removed.

Other red warnings for wind are in effect for Friday.

These are for Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Waterford, from 2am to 10am, Friday.

A separate warning, from 3am to 11am, has been issued for Clare and Galway.

Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo are covered by a red warning for wind from 4am to 12noon, whilst, in Donegal, the warning extends from 7am to 2pm.

There is also an orange warning for wind in place for the entire country tomorrow, from midnight to 4pm.