Fresh Storm Bert wind warning comes into force

A yellowish informing for precocious winds from Storm Bert has travel into effect crossed Northern Ireland.

On Saturday, a fig of homes successful counties Down and Tyrone were flooded aft dense rainfall and upwind caused by the storm.

The upwind informing volition past until 18:00 and has the imaginable to origin question disruption and powerfulness cuts.

On Saturday, 6,500 homes and businesses crossed Northern Ireland were near without powerfulness astatine the highest of Storm Bert, Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) said.

There were besides delays to obstruction services, with flooding causing immoderate services betwixt Belfast and Dublin to beryllium cancelled.

The Met Office said that winds of betwixt 45 and 55mph are wide expected connected Sunday, with gusts up to 65mph possible.

The strongest winds successful Northern Ireland connected Saturday - 67mph - were recorded successful Ballypatrick, County Antrim.

Met Éireann (the Irish Meteorological Service) has besides issued a presumption yellowish upwind alert for a fig of counties successful the Republic of Ireland which volition travel into effect from 08:00 section time.

In counties Clare, Kerry and Galway this informing volition past until 19:00 connected Sunday.

In Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo, the alert is successful spot until 02:00 connected Monday, with County Donegal's successful effect until 08:00.

The work has warned of hard travelling conditions, arsenic good arsenic fallen trees and debris.

On Saturday, the work issued reddish alerts - the highest level - for dense rainfall successful westbound Cork and westbound Galway.

At the storm's peak, 60,000 ESB customers successful the Republic of Ireland were without power.

Wet, wet, bedewed during Storm Bert

by Barra Best, BBC News NI upwind presenter

Parts of Northern Ireland recorded much than fractional a month’s rainfall implicit the weekend.

Derrylin successful County Fermanagh had 65.2mm of rainfall betwixt 18:00 GMT connected Friday and 06:00 connected Sunday.

That is 53% of mean rainfall for Northern Ireland for the full period of November.

The mean is 122.5mm.

Altnahinch Filters successful County Antrim and Murlough successful County Down some recorded 58mm of rainfall - 47% of mean rainfall.