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Regional or National Cold Spell Threads?? (Poll closes at midnight/ Please Vote)
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If i asked about Dublin airport situation in a national thread I would either be ignored, get 6 differing answers, get 3 smartass answers or miss the answer altogether.
If you were a real regular and were keeping yourself up to date with the discussion, you'd have seen the link thrown out many many times for the Dublin Air Traffiic Control Tower channel on the internet and you'd have been able to hear from the people working in the tower what the situation was with the runway condition... When snow was falling most people on the forum were listening to the control tower from their PC.
http://www.liveatc.net/flisten.php?mount=eidw2
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I have ATC and radar on both my phone and laptop and have had for a long time. But have yet to hear ATC talk of roads round the airport. I do remember the 60+ posts about Air Traffic control and how they clutered up the thread that night. Not sure what the reference to 'real regular' was meant to mean.HellFireClub wrote: »If you were a real regular and were keeping yourself up to date with the discussion, you'd have seen the link thrown out many many times for the Dublin Air Traffiic Control Tower channel on the internet and you'd have been able to hear from the people working in the tower what the situation was with the runway condition... When snow was falling most people on the forum were listening to the control tower from their PC.
http://www.liveatc.net/flisten.php?mount=eidw2
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I have ATC and radar on both my phone and laptop and have had for a long time. But have yet to hear ATC talk of roads round the airport. I do remember the 60+ posts about Air Traffic control and how they clutered up the thread that night. Not sure what the reference to 'real regular' was meant to mean.
You specifically said you previously asked about conditions at Dublin Airport. If it's snowing heavily on the runway, and you can establish from listening to Dublin ATC that it is snowing heavily on the runway and they are clearing that snow, well then I think it's fair enough to conclude that it's most likely snowing heavily around the airport as well as in around Swords, Santry, Blanchardstown, etc.
You might have ATC and radar on your phone but a lot of people didn't know that this link was available until I put it up, which was an obvious response I thought to several requests on the thread as to whether Dublin airport was open for arrivals & departures or whether the runway was closed. The thread isn't AA Roadwatch, you might get someone who is aware of road conditions to where you are going, equally you might not.0 -
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Im having trouble keeping up with this thread, never mind having one big thread for the whole country with snowmaggadon on our doorsteps, that hasnt worked in the past.
I want to know if my area is in risk of heavy snow , not someone down in lucan or co.cork!! These are danergous conditions for travelling and if I have to keep going through all the thread pages to find a post releveant to my area then I would rather log off ,having one big thread is a "Tidy mess".
Whats the big deal about having seperate threads?
A National thread is not practical. I knew the mods would succumb to the pressure and create a poll.
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Im having trouble keeping up with this thread, never mind having one big thread for the whole country with snowmaggadon on our doorsteps, that hasnt worked in the past.
I want to know if my area is in risk of heavy snow , not someone down in lucan or co.cork!! These are danergous conditions for travelling and if I have to keep going through all the thread pages to find a post releveant to my area then I would rather log off ,having one big thread is a "Tidy mess".
Whats the big deal about having seperate threads?
A National thread is not practical. I knew the mods would succumb to the pressure and create a poll.
http://www.aaireland.ie/AA/AA-Roadwatch.aspx0 -
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So bascially the people that want a national thread feel like they are being left out, and dont want to see an ulster or connacht thread busy with big snowfalls while its quiet in other provinces .
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That doesnt even cover my area,they only ever mention the main road in letterkenny and donegal town. I want to hear it from the posters themselves in local areas.
Don't worry Pangena I've a feeling we will fair best from this and have the National thread to ourselves
Threads should be seperated IMO. Its fairly easy to jump into other threads to see whats going on there besides trawling through 20 pages of what Dublin ATC is saying :rolleyes:
Of course AA roadwatch is a useful resource but it realy doesn't convey what is happening at a local level.0 -
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Im having trouble keeping up with this thread, never mind having one big thread for the whole country with snowmaggadon on our doorsteps, that hasnt worked in the past.
I want to know if my area is in risk of heavy snow , not someone down in lucan or co.cork!! These are danergous conditions for travelling and if I have to keep going through all the thread pages to find a post releveant to my area then I would rather log off ,having one big thread is a "Tidy mess".
Whats the big deal about having seperate threads?
All the different threads have drawbacks just like the old system. Updates are being made in one thread and not another. Some regions may get very little coverage depending on who lives where. For example its only natural that Weathercheck will stay within the Leinster thread for the most part as its where he lives.
Also while I understand that this is serious stuff for some people the main thing lost is the sense of community which made this forum so good. I enjoyed popping in and out of here and that has been lost.
Forums are about interacting with people. The major thread in which anything went had good banter, lots of fun and a great sense of community. That has completely died on its ass since the introduction of the separate threads and the forum feels really sterile.
I don't see the problem as other threads had the more serious updates without all the other stuff.A National thread is not practical. I knew the mods would succumb to the pressure and create a poll.
You mean your annoyed because things are not going to be the way you want? The mods are here to serve what the majority of people using the forum want. It seems so far the majority want things done the old way.
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You mean your annoyed because things are not going the way you want. We are all here to vote on what we want. Thats what a poll is and we are here to give an opinion on what way we want the threads handled. Just because the majority want it run one way doesnt mean it is entirely the best decision.All the different threads have drawbacks just like the old system. Updates are being made in one thread and not another. Some regions may get very little coverage depending on who lives where. For example its only natural that Weathercheck will stay within the Leinster thread for the most part as its where he lives.
Also while I understand that this is serious stuff for some people the main thing lost is the sense of community which made this forum so good. I enjoyed popping in and out of here and that has been lost.
Forums are about interacting with people. The major thread in which anything went had good banter, lots of fun and a great sense of community. That has completely died on its ass since the introduction of the separate threads and the forum feels really sterile.
I don't see the problem as other threads had the more serious updates without all the other stuff.
You mean your annoyed because things are not going to be the way you want? The mods are here to serve what the majority of people using the forum want. It seems so far the majority want things done the old way.
Opr
Updates to the weather charts are posted in the national charts thread, seems pretty straight forward to me.
Thats good that weathercheck will stay in his leinster thread, if he has any comments about the scenario in any other province he can come to our thread and chat.
I have said already that one big thread is a mess, its impossible to keep up with all the posts, for e.g. during last cold spell one page of the thread was filled up within two minutes , yes two minutes!!
If you are here for the fun and banter then fair enough one big thread is what you want, if you are here to actually hear about the weather and its relevance to your location then a provincal thread is best. This is a weather forum after all, if you want banter go to the humour section.
P.S is there actually anyone from Ulster or connacht that wants one big thread?
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Is there actually anyone from Ulster or connacht that wants one big thread? D
Very few I suspect, but it looks like we're going to be outvoted by the more heavily populated areas up the country, because a national thread seems fine to them, but for us once snowmageddon goes nationwide we might as well not exist as the more populous areas will take over the thread. This is the point at which the forum becomes useless to me. At this stage we'll probably have to go back to a national thread for now, but if it turns like last time and we can't set up a W/NW/N thread unfortuantely I'll have to resort to looking out the window to forecast the weather.:(
Its a pity the regional threads couldn't have been given a few days to settle in before we voted on all this.0 -
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