Nearly every county in Ireland hit with Status Red warning over incoming storm

Only four counties in the Republic of Ireland have not been issued a Status Red alert.

The red alerts are scheduled to take effect from early Friday morning until later that day (22 January).

They apply to Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Westmeath and Wicklow.

The warnings state that gale to storm force winds will bring severe, damaging and extremely destructive gusts in excess of 130km/h.

Met Éireann listed the impacts of the conditions as the following:

• Danger to life
• Extremely dangerous travelling conditions
• Unsafe working conditions
• Disruption and cancellations to transport
• Many fallen trees
• Significant and widespread power outages
• Impacts to communications networks
• Cancellation of event
• Structural damage
• Wave overtopping
• Coastal flooding in low-lying and exposed areas

For the specific times that each of the Status Red warnings are scheduled to come into effect for these 22 counties, visit Met Éireann's website here.

The only four counties that have avoided a Status Red warning are Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford.

These four have been hit with a Status Orange wind warning, however, along with all of Northern Ireland.