STORM Bram has hit Co Dublin, with high winds sweeping the city and flooding in north Dublin. The Irish Sun’s shocking video shows a street completely underwater in the Skerries while waves

LiveDrive update: The M50 southbound queues from J14 (Sandyford) to the M11, where there is flooding at Bray. In Ballymun, there's a broken down car at the lights for Santry Avenue. Beresford Place by Busáras. The N11/Stillorgan Road where it meets Mount Merrion Avenue.

More than 50,000 homes, farms and businesses were left without power yesterday after a nationwide status orange wind warning due to Storm Bram.

IRELAND has been urged to “take weather warnings seriously” as dangerous Storm Bram batters the country. Forecasters warned some counties could be placed on a red alert for the wicked

Strong winds and rain from Storm Bram have caused disruption across the UK on Tuesday, with flights and trains cancelled and hundreds of properties left without power. Nine weather warnings for wind remained in place on Tuesday evening, with amber warnings issued for the Scottish Highlands and Eilean Siar, Strathclyde, and Northern Ireland.

Heavy rainfall and flooding during Storm Claudia earlier this month were made twice as likely by climate change, scientists have found. They also said luck prevented even worse damage as the downpours came during a neap tide when high tides were lower than usual.

Met Eireann says it will be cloudy and dull today, with outbreaks of rain and drizzle spreading from the west this morning. The persistent rain will clear eastwards in the early afternoon, but with further patches of light rain and drizzle to follow. There will be misty and foggy conditions with highest temperatures of 11 to 13 degrees.

Answers to questions arising from my last week’s letter on Valley Flooding. Remembering the damages from the 2022-2023 5”/day Dublin rainfall; the questions were largely about the big 1955 flood.