SO WERE THE TV FORECASTS ENOUGH OF A WARNING?
SIX ONE NEWS
WE’VE had sunshine and showers through the day, some of [these showers] heavy, but the rest of this evening, it’s going to be mostly dry. But we are looking at Storm Ali. Storm Ali was named in conjunction with the Met Office in the UK this morning.
We’ve got an Orange level warning in operation. Winds are going to increase through the rest of this evening [and] overnight tonight [and] for a time on Wednesday morning, before they ease up later on, on the evening of Wednesday.
Then on Thursday, we will see some rain coming through across the southern parts of the country.
But the winds will have eased up by then... And we’ve got a mostly dry day for the northern half of the country on Thursday. The rest of this evening, we’ve still got some showers around, with clear spells for a time overnight. Tonight, it will be mostly dry across the east and south east. We’ll have the rain associated with Storm Ali getting onto western coasts later on tonight and pushing eastwards, but we can see rain is not really the issue tonight, it’s the strong winds... all along western coasts.
Storm force at sea but also very strong inland – much stronger inland than what we are used to, gusting up to 120km per hour. Those winds are only going to be expected to ease up later on Wednesday evening.
The rain associated with Storm Ali? Not a big issue. They will clear through much of the country [and it] will be dry for Wednesday. [more cheering]
NINE O’CLOCK NEWS
THE storm of the season is on its way and it’s been named Storm Ali and it’s going to bring extremely windy conditions across the northern half of the country later in the night and for the first half of Wednesday.
There’ll be severe and damaging gusts as well in the northern half of the country. Also in Kerry and Clare. Gusts of up to 120km per hour, so do take extra care. And over the rest of the country.
Now on the weather chart, [Ali is] out here to the southwest, and it’s tracking north eastwards. By morning, it will be close to the Connacht coast.
We’ll have southerly gales or strong gales at that stage in all sea areas and as the winds go westerly. Towards morning, the winds will increase to storm force along the west coast. Those storms transferring along northern and north western coasts during the morning, winds slowly easing as the day progresses... Brightening up tomorrow, but there will be rain on Thursday, and Friday looks like being a very bright day.
Now overnight [Tuesday night], we’ll have rain coming up across the country, with cloud persistent through parts of the west and north, but very little really in the east and in the south east.
Lowest temperatures about 8 to 12 or 13 degrees in those strengthening southerly winds, with gales or strong gales developing in all sea areas.
A cloudy start [to the morning] with scattered outbreaks of rain but then it’ll quickly brighten up; most of the showers in the north and northwest, good sunny spells elsewhere.
Quite cool [with] strong southerly winds quickly going westerly and slowly easing as the day goes on.