Heavy rain began falling around lunchtime across the city and county with gardai warning of the possibility of spot flooding in places
The wind has also picked up with strong southeasterly winds and some severe gusts expected at the coast
The wind warning is in operation until 9 o'clock tomorrow morning
The strong winds are already having an impact on the roads with reports of a a tree and cables down between Carrigaline and Donnybroook
Meteorologist at Met Eireann Gerry Murphy says Munster is in a for a very wet and windy few hours
"We have issued a yellow level rainfall warning for some fairly heavy falls of rain and localised flooding across southern counties of Munster, and also then in the southeast of the country for Wexford, Wicklow, Carlow and Kilkenny , and that's with the rainfall. Then accompanying that there will be very strong southeast winds, and there'll be strongest on southern coastal counties Cork, Waterford into Wexford and then up in along Leinster as well"
