The winds will be ‘very squally’.

Make of that what you will, but the gist of the latest Met Éireann weather prediction is that Storm Dennis will definitely be paying us a visit in the next 24 hours.

The national forecaster has issued two Status Yellow weather warnings as we head into the weekend.

The Status Yellow wind warning kicks in tomorrow, Saturday, at 3pm until 8pm tomorrow night, while the rain warning is valid from 6am Saturday morning until 9pm, with “spells of heavy, locally thundery rain” expected on Saturday and flooding likely.

“The storm centre will be well to the northwest on Saturday night but coming closest to us later on Sunday.” said forecasters.

Sunday will be extremely windy and very showery with stormy conditions in Atlantic coastal counties and severe winds.