MET ÉIREANN has said recent gusts of nearly 100km/h are not expected to be repeated over the next few days.
It said rush-hour rain this morning would clear to the northeast, giving way to drier and colder weather.
Forecaster John Eagleton said while there was no storm system over the country in recent days there was instability which caused “a very windy period”. However, no records were broken and gusts did not get above 100km/h.
He said wind usually needed to be at 130km/h to bring down trees and electricity poles, although damaged trees could come down in lesser winds and many trees may have been damaged by the severe weather in December.
He said the recent gusts were strong enough to have blown off hoarding around building sites and taken down election posters.
Posters most vulnerable were on city streets where funnelling by tall buildings could cause winds to reach higher speeds.
“If you block the wind in one place it has to speed up somewhere else, so it can funnel down certain streets,” Mr Eagleton said.
Meanwhile passengers disembarking from an Aer Lingus aircraft at Dublin airport escaped injury when a freak gust of wind caused the aircraft to move and separate from the airbridge connected to the terminal.
The passengers had begun disembarking from Aer Lingus flight EI 235 from Gatwick, London, on Friday when the incident happened.
In a statement Aer Lingus said flight EI 235 arrived on stand at T2 in Dublin airport at approximately 2pm with 150 passengers.
“Whilst passengers were disembarking the aircraft a freak gust of wind moved the aircraft from the adjoining airbridge. There are no reported injuries.
“A number of passengers had disembarked the aircraft at the time. The remaining passengers subsequently disembarked the aircraft via a set of steps.”