A very good morning to you all its going to be a very busy day today and Thursday with storm Ellen expected to arrive into the south of Ireland tonight pushing northwards across the spine of the country on Thursday morning with heavy rainfall and some severe winds in places.

A nationwide Status Yellow wind warning is in place with a Status Orange wind warning also issued for Galway, Clare, Limerick, Kerry, Cork and Waterford yesterday evening but these warnings are likely to be tweeked and updated this morning.

The latest ECMWF weather model takes storm Ellen a little east still effecting the whole of Ireland. With this slight shift to the east as it makes landfall it may trigger Met Éireann this morning to add a number of other counties to the status orange warning especially across the east and midlands and possibly even a nationwide status orange wind warning. Winds in general will gust between 80km/hr to 110km/hr but some areas possibly across the south, east and midlands could see gusts of between 110km/hr to 140km/hr for a time Wednesday night and Thursday morning with gusts across the west and north between 100km/hr to 120km/hr based on this mornings ECMWF weather model run.

Storm Ellen is forming over the Atlantic fuelled by the remnants of Hurricane Kyle.

Ellen is forecast to move over the south of Ireland Wednesday evening, tracking northwards over the country during Wednesday night and daytime Thursday. Potentially gusts may exceed 130km/h in some exposed coastal and mountain locations and some lower locations due to funnelling effects.

Met Éireann's high-resolution Ensemble Prediction System (IREPS) showing the range of possibilities of the severe winds. — **Met Éireann's high-resolution Ensemble Prediction System (IREPS) showing the range of possibilities of the severe winds**.

With trees in full leaf and peak numbers on holidays in Ireland, impacts could be significant with damaging winds, heavy rain, and large waves along the coast. Strong winds overland, high, potentially dangerous, waves can occur on lakes as well as along coasts and over high ground.

Storm Ellen is the fifth named storm from the Met Éireann, UKMO and KNMI storm list of 2019/2020. It is the sixth named storm overall as the first one, storm Lorenzo, was named by the National hurricane Center.