Tidal flooding is expected in low-lying areas of Cork city centre again this evening and motorists have been asked to take road closures into account when planning journeys.
The city is especially busy, with the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival bringing thousands of visitors to the area, and high tide this evening is expected to bring flood water onto some streets.
Cork City Council's flood assessment team met this morning because of the forecast "super spring tides" which have been forecast for the bank holiday weekend, starting yesterday evening.
Some roads will be closed and some will have lane restrictions in place.
The streets affected are South Terrace, South Mall, Oliver Plunkett Street, Winthrop Street, Union Quay, Morrison's Island, Wandesford Quay, and Lavitt's Quay.
Some of those roads flooded yesterday evening after high tide at tea-time, although the flood water had receded within about half an hour, and a similar picture is expected today.
It comes as Met Éireann has placed eight counties on a Status Yellow rain warning with heavy showers forecast this evening.
The alert for Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Longford, Galway, Roscommon, Tipperary, Wexford and Wicklow came into effect at 5pm and will remain in place until 4am tomorrow.
⚠️Status Yellow - Rain warning for Carlow, Dublin, Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow⚠️🌧️
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) October 28, 2023
Possible Impacts:
Flooding
Difficult travel conditions
Disruption to outdoor events
See warning details ➡️https://t.co/Xg3aMJlyuS pic.twitter.com/S1w15aWPai
A separate Status Yellow rain warning has been issued for Cavan, Monaghan, Louth, Meath and Westmeath and will be in effect until 6am tomorrow morning.
Eastern counties could face spells of heavy or thundery rain combined with saturated ground conditions.
Met Éireann warned that the heavy rain could cause flooding, difficult travel conditions and disruption to outdoor events.
A separate rain warning is currently in effect for Antrim and Down until 6pm.
The rain will develop in the southeast in the late-afternoon before moving north and westwards through the evening, leading to a wet night for most.
The southwest may escape the worst of the rain and it will turn drier generally in southern parts later in the night.
However, further heavy showers may arrive in the southeast towards tomorrow morning.
Temperatures will range from 10C to 13C with a light to moderate southeast wind.
Tides will be very high along all coasts so coastal flooding is possible, according to Met Éireann.
