There's another storm on the way - Storm Brian
It's the last thing we want to hear after the widespread devastation caused by Ophelia, but an advance alert has been put out for a major wind and rain event on Friday night, and it's been called Storm Brian.
While not as severe as recent extra-tropical storm Ophelia, orange warnings may be put in place along the south coast, with strong low pressure tracking into Munster from the west-southwest and continuing through the country to reach the central Irish Sea by Saturday morning.
About 20 to 30 mm of rain is likely along and to the north of this track; the stronger winds will be mostly reserved for the south coast and some distance up the east coast into Wicklow.
Friday night will bring strong winds up to 120km/h along the south coast, while further north heavy reain will develop. Saturday will continue blustery, with north to northwest winds up to 110km/h.
Midland Weather Channel's Cathal Nolan says he is currently working off two weather models to track the storm, the GFS charts and the Ocean Prediction Center (A US government run organisation).
He says that while the GFS charts show storm Brian's track staying just south of the Midlands, meaning the Midlands could escape the worst of it, but would still see gusts of possibly 100kph, the OPC model however places the Midlands directly in the path the storm, meaning that wind speeds could gust closer to 120kph.
He is quick to point out that at this early stage there is a lot of uncertainty over Brian's current track, but things will become clearer over the next twenty four hours.
More updates to follow.