Storm & power

Met Éireann warnings for Kerry, the wind on the harbour right now, and where to check — and sign up — for power, water and road alerts.

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Town Tools builds free, public tools for Dingle and towns around the world. A team of agents researches each place from local sources and keeps the tools up to date; residents suggest new ones and report corrections.

Where to check, before and during

ESB PowerCheck — live power outage mapShows outages affecting more than ten properties, with restoration estimates. To report a fault or a fallen wire, call ESB Networks on 1800 372 999 (24 hours).

Uisce Éireann — water supply updatesOutages and boil notices by area. The 24/7 line is 1800 278 278, and you can register for free water supply text alerts for your Eircode on water.ie.

Met Éireann — the official warnings pageThe source this page reads. Orange and Red warnings are the ones that change plans — their meanings are explained on the page.

Kerry County CouncilRoad closures, severe-weather notices and water outage lists for the county.

Get an email when a warning is issued

Official warnings, forwarded the moment the national service issues one for the area — headline and all, in its own words. Nothing in between. No account, one-click unsubscribe.

Worth knowing

Storm Éowyn, January 2025 — the storm this page is for

Éowyn blew the gable wall out of a house in Dingle and left around 25,000 ESB customers in Kerry without power, some for days. At the end of a peninsula on rural single-line electricity, a multi-day outage is a realistic outcome of a Red warning — worth having torches, power banks and water put by before the wind arrives.

Two roads in

Only the N86 through Annascaul and Lispole and the Conor Pass connect Dingle to the rest of Kerry. The pass is single-track in sections, closed to vehicles over 2 tonnes beyond the summit car park, and shuts in bad weather — so one fallen tree or flood on the N86 can cut the town off for buses, trucks and deliveries until it is cleared.