Orange wind warning for Mayo on Friday

MET Éireann has issued a Status Orange wind warning for Ireland on Friday.

Storm Éowyn will bring severe, damaging and destructive winds with gusts of up to 130km/h widely, with even higher gusts for a time.

The warning is in place from 2 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Friday.

Impacts include fallen trees, damage to power lines and power outages, structural damage, very difficult travelling conditions, disruption and cancellations to transport and wave overtopping.

There will be "further counties added" to the Status Red warning for wind that has already been issued for the four southwest counties, Met Éireann's senior forecaster Gerry Murphy has said.

He said the expanded alert will affect areas "right up along the western seaboard" and "coastal counties all the way up to Donegal" as Storm Éowyn arrives.

"With the timings varying as the storm moves up," he said.

Mr. Murphy said the Status Red warning was issued for Clare, Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick as Storm Éowyn looks likely to be "a very significant or major storm".

The storm, he said, will have the most impact "from around midnight tomorrow night" until around "6pm on Friday, depending on exactly where you are".

Mr Murphy described the forecast winds as "extremely strong", adding the Status Orange warning that coincides with the red warning will be at the ""higher end" of the alert.

Watch: Met Met Éireann's senior forecaster Gerry Murphy says Storm Éowyn a time for "staying at home"

The forecaster said "people should basically put Friday aside" and advised people to "stay at home and take whatever care and precautions they need" to stay out of the storm.

"The general advice at this point is for people to stay at home, not take any unnecessary journeys, and basically wait for the storm to clear," he said.

He added the adverse weather "does all clear away fairly quickly on Friday evening, Friday night".

Meanwhile Met Éireann Meteorologist Michelle Dillon said Storm Éowyn is going to be "a stand-out storm".