Northern Ireland is set for heavy rain and strong winds on Friday night into Saturday morning, with a yellow weather warning in place.
The Met Office has issued the warning from midnight Friday until noon on Saturday due to forecasts of up to 60mm of rainfall in parts of County Down and Belfast. Gusts up to 80km/h are also expected along the east coast.
Yellow warning of rain affecting Northern Ireland https://t.co/YX5vb7L2KI pic.twitter.com/kRRXiLq6I7
— Met Office - Northern Ireland (@metofficeNI) August 3, 2023
This rainy weather comes after Northern Ireland just had its wettest July on record going back to 1836, with over double the normal rainfall.
The bad weather this summer has already negatively impacted tourism and hospitality businesses that rely on July being a busy season.
It has provisionally been Northern Ireland's wettest July on record.
— Met Office (@metoffice) August 1, 2023
Read more in the release or here's a thread on the month's provisional weather stats
In an interview with the BBC, Sean McLaughlin, who owns a fish and chip restaurant in Portrush, said "We were expecting a bumper summer with decent weather and more people coming around, but sadly we've hit the wettest July we've ever seen."
He added that carparks and caravan sites have been relatively empty when they are normally full this time of year.
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