A status yellow wind warning is now in place for counties Donegal, Galway, Mayo, Clare and Kerry from Thursday 2pm until Friday 2pm. Southerly winds of 55-65km/hr are forecast, with gusts of 90 to 100km/hr along Atlantic coasts.

This follows the nationwide rainfall warning applying until 10pm this Wednesday.

To keep up with the elements, here are the top five weather apps for your phone.

1. Met Éireann

The Met Éireann app is a trusted stalwart for farmers. It gives national and regional forecasts as well as warnings.

Its rainfall charts are always a very good indication of what sort of weather is on the way.

2. Yr

The Yr weather app is another handy one for farmers, which gives weather indications for the day ahead in six hour periods, in millimetres.

It also contains a handy graph for your area of hourly forecasts, with rainfall, temperatures and wind speeds.

3. Accuweather

Another farmer-favourite is Accuweather.

This app again allows farmers to view the rainfall data for their county or region and gives daily reports and forecasts.

4. Weather Live

The Weather Live app gives you the local weather, precipitation indications and an almost glossy rain map, which is also interactive.

5. Rainlogger

This app allows farmers to log rainfall. Farmers can add any number of gauges across their farm on to the app and input the rainfall each day.

It then gives you a view of rainfall readings and lets farmers keep track of rainfall using their phone.

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Given the heavy periods of rain over the last number of weeks and the latest wind warning from Met Éireann, the Irish Farmers Journal took a look at the best weather apps out there.