STORM CHANDRA

Warnings likely to be updated

https://www.met.ie/meteorologists-commentary/storm-chandra-impacting-eastern-and-southern-counties-on-tuesday-27th-january-2026/

the whole country in a yellow wind warning so I’d say orange warnings could be issued soon

Yeah sure if its not affecting Donegal and its public transport and its lattés and street scene, sure its not affecting the rest of Ireland.

Wait...

East wind has me confussed.

As a guess I think if they are to issue warnings it should be before half 9 because then they may run the risk of backlash, unless they are still uncertain in tracks etc

There was 14 minutes of advanced notice for a yellow wind warning for parts of the SE last week.

Met Eireanns own afternoon ensembles are showing nowhere on land reaching orange criteria. Their evening ensembles roll out around 9 so worth having a look in the next hour or so but I think country wide yellow is probably fair given the current outlook.

In terms of models, Icon, UKMO and Arpege are notorious for over estimating gusts. I find that Met Eireanns ensembles usually pretty reliable within this time frame.

Looks really bad across the South Coast. I would go orange for Kerry, Cork and Waterford from 2pm to 5pm

Latest gfs

Strange looks very wound up off the coast? Ah well off to work it is then lol

I mean that’s plain wrong Js. The 15z Arome shows red criteria gusts nowhere over land, and orange only in a few southern counties for a small time.

Interested to see how tomorrow fairs out. There is a serious amount of water in the ground already in Waterford, it definitely can't take much more.

Substantial rain here pretty much most of the day today before another two days of what seems to be persistent rain.

Yes your right, I've modified my original post to Orange. A solid orange for South Coast though I think

A very wet day for the Mourne and Wicklow mountains.

Orlock head in County Down is my guess for highest gust. 120/130kph 75/80mph ish.

UK met office mountain forecast for mourne mountains has medium likelihood of blizzards.

I wonder what it’s like around the Dropping Well 🙈

Flooding will be definitely the main story from this event, although it's not directly related to this storm and more of a "The strawrm that broke the river's bank" situation (sorry). Significant river/stream and surface flooding in the southeast is almost guaranteed at this stage. The wind element was never likely to be a major concern, but still could have quite an impact depending on where and how strong it hits. Extremely saturated ground along with high wind gusts from an usual direction will likely light up the powercheck map tomorrow.

Red seriously, I honestly don't see how this would be red it's a high end Yellow very low orange at most.