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Bert is the 2nd named tempest of the 2024/25 season
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It has warned this could origin terrible flooding and harm to spot successful the affected areas, arsenic good arsenic hard driving conditions.
In Northern Ireland, the TrafficWatchNI work said upwind and rainfall are "starting to origin issues" for motorists connected Saturday morning.
A histrion and inferior lines person travel down onto the Belfast Road successful Newtownards, partially obstructed the road.
In County Tyrone the Dergbrough Road, Plumbridge, is afloat closed owed to a fallen tree.
The Coast Road successful Ballygally is besides unopen due to the fact that of a stone fall, which is believed to beryllium related to Storm Bert.
TrafficWatchNI is besides reporting "very hard driving conditions" connected immoderate higher areas including the Glenshane Pass, Coleraine Mountain Road, Windyhill Road successful Limavady and Glenpark Road, Omagh.
Met Éireann's reddish warnings - its highest level of alert - are successful unit until 10:00 section clip connected Saturday.
It has besides issued a presumption orangish informing for rainfall successful counties Waterford, Kerry, Clare, Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim implicit the aforesaid clip period.
In County Donegal a presumption yellowish informing is successful unit for snow/ice, rainfall and beardown upwind until noon.
That region has been the worst deed for powerfulness cuts, with astir 12,000 radical without electricity, peculiarly successful the Gweedore and Buncrana areas.
Other counties affected see Kerry, Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon and Galway.
Why and however are storms named?
Storm names are agreed successful beforehand by UK, Irish and Dutch forecasters
The naming of storms is simply a signifier which helps meteorologists pass with the nationalist erstwhile they request to counsel of unsafe oregon disruptive upwind events.
Certain criteria person to beryllium met earlier a tempest is fixed a name.
Bert is the 2nd named tempest of the 2024/25 play which began connected 1 September.
It was named by Ireland's Met Éireann connected Thursday due to the fact that Irish forecasters believed it could bring terrible disruption to the Republic of Ireland.
Met Éireann works successful concern with the UK Met Office and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (RNMI) each twelvemonth to monitor, classify and names storms.
The 3 organisations hold an alphabetical database successful beforehand of each season.
Storm Bert was preceded by disruptive snowfall successful immoderate parts of Northern Ireland connected Friday.
Some Translink services did not tally connected Friday morning, including buses serving Belfast, Ballygowan, Derryboy, Omagh and Newcastle.
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