Over 7,000 households and businesses remained without electricity overnight as the worst of Storm Kathleen passes over Ireland.
The ESB said yesterday evening crews would continue to work on storm repairs for another number of hours restoring customers before standing down for the night.
According to the EBS’s Power Check, clusters of power outages remain this morning across Ireland, focused in rural areas.
The most outages remain in the Swords area in north Dublin, where 180 customers remain without electricity.
A yellow wind warning remains in place in Donegal, Mayo and west Galway from 8pm yesterday evening to 4pm today.
Met Éireann has warned damage to already-weakened structures, some fallen trees, difficult travel conditions and falling debris is likely throughout the day.
Sun rising over a much better morning with good sunny spells and while it is windy it’s nothing like yesterday. Scattered showers will be hit and miss, sadly the Shannon radar is offline again. pic.twitter.com/fOVAkwJ4Jq
— Carlow Weather (@CarlowWeather) April 7, 2024
Weather conditions from Storm Kathleen yesterday resulted in Dublin Airport cancelling six flights.
There were also disruptions to services yesterday between Heuston station and Kildare and Galway and the Connolly-Sligo route due to fallen trees on the rail lines.
Cork was the worst affected by the storm with falling trees bringing down power lines across the city and county. Among the worst affected was Whitechurch just outside Cork City, where over 1,600 homes were left without power.
Weather models continue to trend towards a more Southeast track for the next low system Monday. This is good news for the Southwest as they now look likely to escape the heavy rain but Southeast more likely to see it. Hopefully it could stay further Southeast yet and miss us? pic.twitter.com/6L7dVjZVqz
— Carlow Weather (@CarlowWeather) April 6, 2024
The top wind gusts reported from Storm Kathleen was 112km per hour along the coast of Mayo.
Rainy conditions will continue to move away from western areas toward the east. Tonight could see over 30mm with 20mm in other parts of the south east.
