Status yellow rain warning in place for eight counties
Ellen O'Donoghue
A total of eight counties are under two separate yellow rain warnings on Tuesday morning.
Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Cork and Waterford will be under an alert until 3pm.
A separate warning is in effect for Dublin, Louth and Wicklow until 9pm.
It comes after a period of extensive rainfall overnight.
Those in coastal areas have been advised to be alert to the possibility of flooding due to high tides and further heavy rain falling on already saturated ground.
Difficult travelling conditions are expected, Met Éireann said, with motorists warned to slow down and expect surface water.
“Rain will fall on saturated ground where river levels are high with high tides expected this week. This will lead to further flooding along rivers and in coastal areas.”
It comes after Taoiseach Micheál Martin visited homes and businesses badly affected by floods in Co Wexford.
He met residents of Island Road, Enniscorthy, an area that was badly hit by flooding in recent weeks after the River Slaney burst its banks during Storm Chandra.
