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

working in Firefox now.......though haven't checked all the links, just the weather maps and satellite imagery

No way of getting a full page radar that's being updated ? It's the old archive map which I thought was replaced for more clarity. I can't see any way to get a large map with 5 minute updates as we had before.

I've given it over a week now and still find the new site to be very fiddly. A disimprovement on the previous version IMO.

This is what I've been wondering ever since they updated the website. What's the point of having just the forecast without the chance of checking out what the current conditions are? Is it so no-one can complain how the forecast was inaccurate when compared to the latest reports? All I can find is this and it has fewer locations than before:

The local weather used to be on the top bar and it was at least giving me some idea of the conditions even if not completely accurate for my location. It's funny how other weather services in other European countries have no problems with displaying local weather but do they not have enough weather stations or what is the problem here?

It shows the forecasts yes but no current weather as it is. Or at least I always thought this on the top bar meant that this was the latest observation (as in not a forecast but the actual weather right now):

It's good to have a detailed forecast but I also want the data from the weather station I'm closest to. Maybe I really should invest in one of my own.

Pure laziness in that response from them and not professional at all. They keep changing the site and making a balls of it. Its what you could only expect from the Department of Housing, local government and heritage.

to go back to the forecast ive found you can click on the logo , will bring you back .

Was doing that for me at the start when they changed over. Try reloading the page and putting your area back in.

I just got this response from Met Eireann on twitter:

Seems like a terrible decision really...

Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. This is just a 'this is a feature not a bug' response... god forbid someone would want to see the current weather easily...

I don't fully understand the reasoning behind this update, now I'm talking about the desktop site for now. It used to be relatively clean and clear, but now its a cluttered mess. Rainfall radar far too small, Analysis charts don't need to be taking up so much page space IMO. And the weather warning section is no longer as clear or front and centre.

Standard Met Eireann....they have red warnings for abit of wind or warnings for a sunny day...

When you actually need them......

Nowhere.....useless, up there with RTE.

Gaoth last night the whole of the North of the country was a massive area of bright red an orange color which was not scattered showers.

People only pay attention to forecasts now if a colour goes with them. They look for time off work if it's wet, windy, snowy, frosty and now hot. I was watching four men laying paving bricks on Friday afternoon here in Sardinia and it was 36 degrees at the time, many more down at ground level with the sun beating down on them. Not a flinch from them.

I don't see much evidence of oranges and reds on the radar last night.

Here we go with the Dublin v Rest of Country nonsense. The same applies to all the country. "I got all wet cos I got caught in the rain that I didn't know would fall because they didn't give me a colour and I refuse to listen to or read text forecasts". And now you acknowledge that the heaviest rain didn't even fall in Met Éireann's area of responsibility. A warning was issued by the appropriate office.

I don't live in Dublin.

I didn't say a warning was warranted, I said it was issued.

I never mentioned rainfall totals, I showed the radar sequence that had no orange or red in it, as had been said earlier.

But go ahead and make stuff up if it pleases you. Maybe read a forecast or two the next time aswell.

I'm not crying about anything. You're the one who came on to complain about Met Éireann. Someone else said "the whole of the North of the country was a massive area of bright red an orange color". That is pure hyperbole, clearly not at all accurate and needs to be corrected.

I'm not triggered by Met Éireann, though I find the Yellow warning system a bit needless. I am triggered by what I increasingly see as a lazy, snowflake, granny nation that is forever on the lookout for the next National Duvet Weather Day, brought to you courtesy of the maddest extremes of Health & Safety "regulations".

This is from the 23rd

"The whole of the North of the country" is what you said. It was only part of it.

This is getting a bit childish now but I suppose it depends on the source of the data. Here's the Meteologix radar for the same time. In any case, both sources show that the whole of the North was not under heavy rain - whatever the colour - at the time, or at any time before or after it either. Rainfall totals back that up. With the exception of Castlederg and Magilligan's high totals, all other stations got <10 mm in 24 hours.

I'm all for reporting the weather, but when it gets exaggerated then it needs to be corrected.

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