Storm Bella has been named and will bring ‘damaging gusts’ on St. Stephen’s Day

Storm Bella has been named by the UK Met Office and it’s set to bring ‘heavy rain and damaging gusts’ to Ireland on St. Stephen’s Day.

The Met Office has issued status yellow weather warnings for parts of Britain and weather expert Alan O’Reilly of Carlow Weather expects Storm Bella to cause disruption here in Ireland on December 26.

After the storm was named this morning, Alan tweeted that it will ‘hit on St. Stephen’s Day, bringing strong and damaging gusts and heavy rain.’

The next storm has been named and it is #Bella #StormBella is the system I posted about last night that will hit St. Stephen’s day bringing strong and damaging gusts and heavy rain. pic.twitter.com/WX8jE4bPQF

— Carlow Weather (@CarlowWeather) December 24, 2020

Currently, Met Éireann’s forecast for St. Stephen’s Day says that it will be ‘increasingly windy’ with ‘heavy rain’ during the night. Before that, Christmas Day will be mostly dry but with ‘patches of light rain’ turning into ‘persistent rain’ on Christmas night.

#StormBella has been named

Storm Bella is forecast to bring strong winds and heavy rain to the UK on #BoxingDay and Sunday

Latest warnings: https://t.co/QwDLMfRBfs

Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️ pic.twitter.com/GToOUnZGU2

— Met Office (@metoffice) December 24, 2020

Met Éireann’s full Christmas outlook can be read here.

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