Storm Frank will replace Storm Eva and is expected to bring yet more heavy winds and prolonged periods of rain. Some 30mm to 60mm of rain is forecast to fall between Monday and Wednesday.

Met Éireann said that, again, the focus of the next storm will be the north, west and south coasts.

“It will become very wet and very windy during the afternoon as heavy rain pushes in from the Atlantic in gale force south-easterly winds.

“This is from another powerful Atlantic storm (may be named Frank) out to the west of Ireland which may produce some damaging gusts over Ireland and further flooding so please keep in touch with the latest forecasts and warnings from Met Eireann. Be aware also that there will be exceptionally high Atlantic waves along the north, west and south coast,” Met Éireann said.

However, by Wednesday the storm will have moved towards Iceland leaving dry periods but due to the large periods of rain, flooding is “inevitable” according to Met Éireann.

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New storm to hit Ireland

The sixth storm of the winter is forecast to hit Irish shores in the coming days with more flooding “inevitable”.