";s:4:"text";s:4963:" Forecast - Sligo. Good sunny spells too. Heavy showers or longer spells of rain in Ulster, Connacht and west Munster will extend to all areas this morning and continue for the rest of the day. Lowest temperatures of 7 to 9 degrees.In Co Mayo, 14 customers are affected by an outage in Swinford. ESB hope to restore power by 2.15pm.We will have all the very latest updates throughout the day in our live blog here.South to southwest gales or strong gales today on all Irish coastal waters and on the Irish Sea and occasionally touching storm force 10 locally between slyne Head and Bloody Foreland.A weather advisory will be in place for the entire country until 6pm on Saturday with homeowners asked to tie down items like trampolines.This is part of the unseasonable windy conditions that weather chiefs warned about on Thursday.Kerry, Clare, Donegal, Sligo, Mayo and Galway had all been issued with warnings already - with the whole of the Republic now covered.A Met Eireann forecaster said: “Continuing very windy countrywide for the rest of today with strong, very blustery southwest winds giving some damaging gusts. There are currently no warnings in operation. Status: Green no warning. ESB Networks’ website say they hope to return power by 2pm and 12.45pm to these areas respectively."Given the time of year, there is potential for wind-related impacts such as debris from trees and movement of unsecured outdoor items."Thousands have been left without power across the country as “unseasonable” winds lash Ireland.Six different counties are currently under a status yellow warning with the whole country hit with a weather advisory20 more counties are now under a status yellow weather warning with ‘unseasonable winds’ expected throughout the day.All of Leinster and Munster come under the warning as well as Cavan, Monaghan, Leitrim and Roscommon.Over 1,400 homes and businesses in Carrick-on-Shannon and surrounding areas in Leitrim have been left without power as have 113 customers in Mohill.“Tonight will be windy and showery with fresh to strong, gusty southwest winds and gales near northwest coasts. Today , Light cloud and a fresh breeze. Highest temperatures of 12 to 16 degrees with fresh, gusty westerly winds, which will be strong to gale force in the northwest.”ESB Networks say they are working to repair faults as quickly as possible.And in Galway, there is a major outage in Clifden, with 372 customers currently without power.The gusty winds will be around for the rest of today and much of Saturday but should start to ease by 5pm when the weather advisory ends.A Met Eireann forecaster said: “Today will be cool, windy and showery with strong, very gusty southwest winds giving some damaging gusts and gales in western and northern coastal areas . Donegal and Sligo's warning comes into effect at 6am on Friday morning and last until 9pm Friday night with mean speeds of 50 to 65 km/h and gusts of 90 to 110 km/h. Brighter further south with sunshine and showers. There’ll be further heavy showers of rain or hail, some of them thundery. Cool with highest temperatures of 12 to 16 degrees.The forecaster said: “Strong southwesterly winds will give damaging gusts of 80 to 100 km/hr.”There are a number of faults across the country due to the high winds which you can see below.Met Eireann issued the warning at 11am this morning and it will be in effect until 9pm tonight.“Saturday will be a blustery or windy day.