All Things Met Eireann Related Go in Here (MOD NOTE #1)

igCorcaigh

For all the people who give out about the ME Yellow or Orange warnings claiming it's hype, this is what can happen in an Orange warning area, and why it's important for everyone to respect the warnings.

Which makes me think whether a school bus should be driving at all under an Orange wind warning...

https://twitter.com/skydavidblevins/status/1613623113547120642?s=20&t=fDUWXx9YlRsplTK3SVwvFw

Graces7

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120100189#Comment_120100189

Thanks for this and so often folk assume that only red and maybe orange are dangerous.Wind is a powerful force to be respected. Thtat photo makes the blood run cold. Terrifying

Oscar Bravo

Another one on tonight's 9.30 broadcast "Christmas Night "

Comhrá

And the Met Eireann gremlins strike again.... tonight's 9.30 forecast.

Edited:

Oscar Bravo just beat me to it!

Storm 10

Strikes again tonight they showed Tuesdays chart tonight they really are careless or just dont care

WolfeEire

I don't know where to start with the tabloid media's coverage of our weather. We know weather stories are used for clickbait but this one is up there with the donut polar vortex headline from last week.

DOCARCH

Met Eireann really need to start publicly rebuking/challeging this sort of sh*t!

People read this sort of guff then give out about Met Eireann's forecasts being 'wrong'!

Discodog

ME website down. No radar on website or app.

.Donegal.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120212331#Comment_120212331

That’s possibly the worst one I’ve seen yet. The only way to stop it is to fine them for utter shite like that.

igCorcaigh

For the love of...

Will ME ever fix the location bug on the android app? It constantly resets to Dublin. Has done for years! 😤

HeidiHeidi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120566718#Comment_120566718

It keeps resetting itself out of Dublin on me!

I have 3 locations that I've used - I live in Dublin so that's the one I would most use/ would have as my default, but the fecking thing won't stay there no matter how often I set it 🙄

igCorcaigh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120567046#Comment_120567046

That's crazy! The old ME desktop website used to do the same for me. But seems fixed in the new one (but with no current conditions on the homepage!). Android widget always says Dublin, until I click refresh.

SO annoying!!

CrowdedHouse

Ever since the bit of an update a couple of months ago I haven't been getting Warning notifications. Cleared cache/data/Uninstalled/Reinstalled from scratch many times but no joy.

Android Samsung S20+5G

Igotadose

Has the met.ie site changed once again? For years, i could use it and get my local townland (kilmalkedar) forecast. Now, when I launched it yesterday, I had been switched to Dublin, and could not find kilmalkedar in the search.

Could it be a database update on met.ie just plain dropped a bunch of locations? FWIW, herself could never get kilmalkedar on her computer and we live in the same house! Seems odd I can get other nearby locations, but not the one I've used for years.

WolfeEire

Press release from Met Eireann on a new radar for Shannon. Finally!

Met Éireann is replacing the weather radar at Shannon Airport

• Work to install a new weather radar system is starting this month 

Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, has announced that it is replacing the weather radar located at Shannon Airport to install a brand-new weather radar system with upgraded technology and capabilities.

The Shannon weather radar is part of the national weather radar network, which currently consists of two weather radars, one located at Shannon Airport and the other at Dublin Airport. This weather radar network provides a steady stream of information 24 hours a day, 365 days a year via the Met Éireann website and app and is used to provide information on the location and intensity of precipitation across Ireland. The new weather radar system in Shannon will provide enhanced precipitation measurement capabilities. This will result in benefits for Met Éireann forecasting services and for the rainfall radar maps offered to the public.

Replacement work is starting in May and is expected to be completed by autumn 2023. During this period there will be a modified radar service in the South and West of the country, with a temporary weather radar system operating from Co. Cork. Throughout the radar replacement, Met Éireann’s forecasting services will continue as normal.

Sarah Gallagher, Head of the Observations Division in Met Éireann, said: “As part of our continual improvement, Met Éireann looks forward to delivering this state-of-the-art weather radar that will serve the South-West and national public for many years to come with high quality precipitation observations. Ireland’s weather radar data is fundamental to the provision of accurate forecasts and weather warnings, supporting emergency management and the protection of life and property.”

Further updates will be available as the project progress via the Met Éireann website www.met.ie

Discodog

The modified radar looks hopeless. This is going to be a long summer. I wish they could of left the old one up until the new was ready

Bsal

Looks like they are not feeding the data from the temporary radar in Cork to netweather or the UK met office (yet).

Jpmarn

I suspect that the temporary radar station maybe located at Moorepark. I set up a thread to discuss the replacement of the Shannon Radar.

lovelyhurler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120617567#Comment_120617567

If they're replacing it, how could they leave the 'old one up'?

Discodog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120634190#Comment_120634190

Build it next to the old one? I would of hoped that they would have a solution that wouldn't leave the West in the dark. But given Shannon's history, I doubt that it figured as a priority.

lovelyhurler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120634736#Comment_120634736

Would you spend several weeks wroking right beside a huge source of microwave radiation?????

ednwireland

just needed joanna to say scorchio on this evenings weather forecast

squonk

Was it just me or was Michelle Dillon out of focus on the forecasts yesterday? I had to check my eyesight as sage seemed quite blurred but tge chart behind her was crystal clear. I thought I was going crazy. Maybe things in RTE are worse than we thought! 😀

Meteorite58

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120805110#Comment_120805110

Noticed that too, I thought my eyes were gone all blurry😀 Mentioned also the Atmospheric river situation of heavy rain being brought up close to or over parts of the country for the weekend, looks like most of it staying off shore and the Atlantic seaboard counties getting the most of it but not as bad as earlier charts, still one to watch, could get some high totals by Sunday night.

ShayNanigan

So... What's up with seven locations not giving out readings at the moment..?

zell12

Met Éireann has pinpointed the week of August 21 to August 27 for the glorious weather

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/met-eireanns-long-range-forecast-suggests-when-warm-weather-will-return/a1524615404.html

spookwoman

Some movement, wonder whats taken them this long to get the unit in.

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1691907905686053375?s=20

spookwoman

Anyone else finding their site slow to load or refresh

sryanbruen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120996654#Comment_120996654

Indeed, every other site fine. Excess traffic viewing warnings?

spookwoman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120996677#Comment_120996677

Got a 505 gateway timed out warning.