IT just got worse.
As Storm Desmond batters Kerry, it now appears to be getting worse as the Yellow Status Wind Warning For Kerry has been upgraded to Orange by Met Eireann.
The updated warning is for Kerry, Wexford, Wicklow, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, Cork and Waterford.
Southwest winds with reach mean speeds of 60 to 75km/h and will gust over 100 km/h at times. Winds will be strongest in coastal areas. That’s us then.
The update was issued at 1.41pm and is valid from 2pm until 3am on Sunday.
It’s wild down south. pic.twitter.com/GAfpHevtz1
— Killian Young (@killianyoung) December 5, 2015
Meanwhile the road at Ballymullen is impassable and cars are being turned away.
The Castlemaine Road outside Tralee is closed and there is no access to Cuil Didín Nursing home. However, emergency measures have been put in place should there be a need for emergency access.
Motorists advised to avoid the north bound carriageway of the Tralee Bypass from the Killarney Road interchange to the Castleisland Road Interchange as there is flooding there.
There is localized flooding reported on the N86 Tralee-Dingle road at Annagh and at the road near the rugby club in Ballyard.
The Cork/Kerry Road at Glenflesk is closed as is Molls Gap.
Kenmare is taking an awful battering with significant flooding reported.