A nationwide status-orange wind warning will be in place between 2am and 5pm on Friday.

The Irish meteorological service, the UK’s Met Office and the Netherlands’ KNMI have each contributed seven names to the new list.

More than a dozen severe storms swept over Ireland and the UK between October and March, the research noted

ESB Networks said just under 50,000 homes remained without power just before noon.

The Met Éireann guidance said it was “beyond doubt” that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land

The first storm of the new season will be named Antoni

Laura has gained strength to become a menacing Category 4 hurricane with the potential for a 20ft storm surge that forecasters said would be “unsurvivable” and capable of sinking entire communities.

Forecasters say Laura will intensify into a “catastrophic” Category 4 hurricane – an even stronger storm than previously expected – as it heads towards Texas and Louisiana.

Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate the Texas and Louisiana coasts as Laura strengthened into a hurricane.

After a day as a hurricane, tropical storm Marco is approaching Louisiana in the United States.

Tropical storm Marco has become a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico on a path toward the Louisiana coast. Tropical storm Laura battered the Dominican Republic and Haiti and headed to the same part of the US coast, also as a potential hurricane.