Met Eireann puts 27 counties under thunderstorm warning including Dublin
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Dublin is one of 27 counties that have been put under a thunderstorm warning by Met Eireann.
The warning for 14 counties - Dublin, the rest Leinster, Tipperary and Waterford - kicks in at 12am tonight, and will last until 2pm tomorrow afternoon. Met Eireann is warning of heavy showers and thunderstorms, with a risk of localised flooding, lightning damage, poor visibility, and difficult travelling conditions.
A series of Yellow warning will also kick in for different counties at different times. A warning for Cork kicks in at 10pm tonight, which will last until 3am tomorrow.
The warning for Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Leitrim, Roscommon, and Sligo kicks in at 7am Thursday, until 5pm. And a similar Yellow warning for the six Northern Irish counties was issued by the UK Met Office, which will kick in at 6am on Thursday and last until 9pm.
And the mixed bag of a summer looks set to continue in Dublin with temperatures heading above 20C today before the rain hits. Today will be humid with highs of 19 to 21C.
Scattered showers will hit later tonight and will become more persistent and heavy with a chance of thunderstorms and spot flooding. It will remain quite muggy overnight with temperatures of 13 to 14C.
It will be a wet start on Thursday with heavy rain and a chance of more thunderstorms with highs of 19 to 21C. The national forecast for the coming days warns of more showers but there is a chance of drier and sunnier spells next week.
Here's the outlook for the coming days:
Friday: Another humid day with outbreaks of heavy rain along with scattered thunderstorms. Highest temperatures of 16 to 20 degrees in light to moderate southerly or variable winds, fresher on eastern coasts.
Friday night: Frequent showers will continue to spread from the south overnight, some heavy with a chance of thunderstorms. Turning misty or foggy in places in a light variable breeze. Lowest temperatures of 8 to 12 degrees.
Saturday: A showery day with some heavy showers and potential for further thunderstorms. Highest temperatures of 15 to 19 degrees in light to moderate northwesterly or variable winds.
Sunday: More in the way of dry weather on Sunday with some sunny spells and well scattered showers. Highest temperatures of 14 to 19 degrees in moderate westerly winds.
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