Thousands of homes and businesses in the west and northwest have had their electricity restored following early morning outages caused by Storm Floris
And yellow wind warnings have been lifted in the Republic although they remain in place across Northern Ireland.
Ireland escaped the worst of the unseasonably high winds after Storm Floris made landfall overnight before heading north towards Scotland.
According to Met Éireann median wind speeds reached up to 70km/h at the height of the storm with the highest speeds of around 90km/h recorded in Mace Head in Galway.
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At one point as many as 10,000 homes and businesses were without power but most have been reconnected by ESB Networks teams. As of 5pm on Monday, 2,700 were still without power.
The storm intensified at sea as it moved north and winds could reach well in excess of 100km per hour in Scotland later today.
An ESB spokesman described the impact of Floris as modest and said crews had been mobilised in affected areas and were responding to outages as necessary. The public was warned not to approach fallen wires or damaged infrastructure which could be “extremely dangerous”.
Status Yellow wind for Cavan Donegal, Monaghan, Leitrim and Sligo were lifted at 4pm while warnings that were in place across the west and northwest have also expired.
Yellow wind warnings remain in place for Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Derry.
Dublin Airport said its operations were largely unaffected although a small number of flights from Emerald Airlines to the UK were cancelled. In Northern Ireland several flights have also been cancelled and passengers scheduled to fly out of at airports in the North have been advised to contact their airline directly for flight updates.
Met Éireann’s senior forecaster Gerry Murphy said the storm was “basically what we’ve expected within a Yellow level warning range“ and said that ”in the broader scheme of things it’s still a relatively small weather event”.
Met Éireann said Tuesday will bring a lot of dry weather overall, with spells of sunshine.
There will be a scattering of showers for a time, mainly further north with highest temperatures of 15 degrees in the north to 21 degrees further south, with moderate to fresh west to northwest winds, decreasing light to moderate later in the day.
