He wrote on the Carlow Weather Facebook page: "The UK Met Office have named #StormBronagh which is bringing us rain today and will intensify as it reaches Wales and England bringing strong winds and rain there. Britain is braced for strong winds from the second named storm of the season an intense low-pressure system is developing and will develop across parts of Wales and south-west England during the evening and into Friday morning. Met Office chief meteorologist Paul Gundersen said: "Although the strongest winds are expected to occur as Storm Bronagh moves offshore into the North Sea. A tree which fell onto a car in Belfast during Storm Ali Credit: Liam McBurney/PA

Yellow warnings for wind are in place until 9am on Friday for the east midlands, west midlands, east England, London and south east England, north east England, north west England, south west England, Wales and Yorkshire and Humber. On Wednesday, a wind gust of 91mph was recorded in Co Down, the strongest in September in Northern Ireland since records began. In County Galway, a woman, named locally as Elvira Ferraii, and said to have been aged in her 50s, died when the caravan she was staying in at the remote beauty spot in Clifden ecoBeach Camping and Caravan Park blew off the cliff and smashed onto the beach below.
Bronagh, the second named storm of the 2018–19 European windstorm season, begins moving across Ireland and the United Kingdom.