Met Éireann is progressing in the area of more localised weather warnings, via the use of polygons to represent areas under warnings. This will mean a move away from county-based warnings to a sub-county-based warning approach, which will identify where the expected impacts will be in the county.
Weather conditions associated with Met Éireann's Status Orange and Yellow warnings have led to outages throughout today, Tuesday 9th December, as Storm Bram causes substantial damage to the electricity network,