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

HeidiHeidi · 07-05-2023 8:23pm

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 · 07-05-2023 8:28pm

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 · 08-05-2023 1:34pm

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 · 14-05-2023 8:00am

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 · 19-05-2023 10:37am

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 · 19-05-2023 6:07pm

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 · 20-05-2023 8:34pm

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

Jpmarn · 20-05-2023 10:47pm

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 · 24-05-2023 9:30am

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

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

Discodog · 24-05-2023 11:41am

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 · 25-05-2023 9:29am

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

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

ednwireland · 28-05-2023 10:47pm

just needed joanna to say scorchio on this evenings weather forecast

squonk · 04-07-2023 5:53pm

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 · 04-07-2023 7:57pm

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 · 30-07-2023 10:26pm

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

zell12 · 13-08-2023 11:05am

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 · 16-08-2023 9:24pm

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

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

spookwoman · 18-08-2023 4:46pm

Anyone else finding their site slow to load or refresh

sryanbruen · 18-08-2023 4:49pm

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

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

spookwoman · 18-08-2023 4:50pm

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

Got a 505 gateway timed out warning.

igCorcaigh · 03-09-2023 5:26pm

I knew there was something wrong 😂

spookwoman · 03-09-2023 8:58pm

Not sure if ever mentioned but does anyone else find the Visual VS b+w IR quite different. The visual doesn't show 1/2 the cloud cover and is quite deceptive. Often enough it's looks like it should be completly clear out if I go by the visual but if I look at b+w IR there is a noticable amount of cloud which is confirmed when i go out and look up.

zell12 · 07-09-2023 11:07am

Get into Met HQ - This 35 minute tour is pre-book only and booking opens 14 September

https://openhousedublin.com/locations/met-eireann/

highdef · 07-09-2023 11:22am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121065354#Comment_121065354

They very often are different as the Visual and Infrared are looking at different things.

doralives · 27-09-2023 5:32pm

I'm drafting a letter to Eoin Moran, supposed head of ME, in respect of his delay in warning those in Ireland who aren't weather nerds, and therefore don't spend their time drooling over charts every 6 hours for 9 days out from a storm, that he was grossly and wilfully negligent in his role during the past 48-72 hours where warnings re 'Agnes' are concerned. If you 'believe' in anthropogenic-induced 'climate change' that's your choice, in the same way as it's mine to have views contrary to yours. 'Denier, Denier, crucify him' is usually the cry. Last time I checked we lived in a democracy, but some people seem to get a kick out of silencing anything and anyone that voices anything contrary to their worldview. Lets see how long this post stays up before a mod deletes it without any other reason than 'you've been warned'.

'Mr. Moran,

With respect to your recent appointment as 2nd vice president to the UN-funded World Meteorological Organisation and the appointment of Keith Lambkin as Head of Climate Services at Met Eireann, not to mention your position as chair of EUMETSAT, is it not unreasonable to expect that the quality of the forecasting in Met Eireann be of a standard sufficient to give ample warning to the people of Ireland of severe weather events, or is there an anthropogenic-induced climate change narrative being pushed by the aforementioned organisations that takes precedence over saving lives, to provide minimum notification to ensure maximum damage, thereby furthering the 'climate change' narrative and providing justification for more taxes and more government 'controls' to 'combat it'?

Sincerely etc etc'

What do you think? Too close to the bone?

HeidiHeidi · 27-09-2023 5:37pm

Here's what I think (in my best Jeremy Clarkson voice)......

A) You might consider some paragraphs, and the odd full stop here and there. One sentence for your entire letter/question does not make for easy comprehension.

B) You've fallen foul of a double negative, I don't think the overall sentence/letter means what you think it means.

C) What does it all mean? What is a "anthropogenic-induced climate change narrative" when it's at home???

D) Whose bone?

HeidiHeidi · 27-09-2023 5:49pm

Also, why "supposed head of ME"? Eoin Doran is Director of Met Eireann, what's supposed about that?

And to address what I think might be the overall point of your letter/essay/sentence/diatribe (although as I say it's a bit hard to tell) - I've been listening to warnings and updates for the last week about Agnes, the track it might take and the impact it would have on various parts of the country. All being narrowed down and clarified as the system neared the country and they were surer about its track.

Did you not hear them? Were you surprised when the storm hit today, or something?

doralives · 27-09-2023 5:51pm

If you were paying attention to the 'Agnes' thread you'd be clear on the points I've been making. I'm not in the habit of repeating of myself.

doralives · 27-09-2023 5:54pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121165425#Comment_121165425

Eoin Doran is not the supposed director of Met Eireann. Eoin Moran is, seeing as you love the bit of nit picking.

HeidiHeidi · 27-09-2023 5:54pm

I haven't been reading the "Agnes" thread. Yet I still knew all about the storm coming. Hence my puzzlement at your posts.

Igotadose · 27-09-2023 6:00pm

We won't do your work for you (and your posts on the Agnes thread are remarkably content free.) So, why not enlighten us to exactly what the point is you're trying to make? You seem to be another one of the CT types that rereg and show up here looking for conspiracies that don't exist.

DOCARCH · 27-09-2023 6:33pm

Mod Note: I have deleted a number of posts. Doralives - as per other thread, you have made your point and your responses to other posters is not acceptable in this forum.

M.T. Cranium · 27-09-2023 7:49pm

Fine stretch in the evening.

zell12 · 05-10-2023 11:45am

Joanna Donnelly on Radio1 now talking about her new book

The Sea Area Forecast is broadcast daily on RTÉ radio at 6 a.m. and midnight. Foretelling fair days or fierce storms coming in across our seas, it has become a national institution – its hypnotic, rhythmic language as reassuring as the Angelus. Acting as a gentle morning wake-up call and a soothing bedtime lullaby, it transports us to faraway places and describes weather patterns we can’t comprehend. From Mizen Head to Malin, Valentia to Loop Head, and Carlingford Lough to Hook Head – rising or falling slowly, backing south-east to north-east or veering south-to-south-west – it has a unique language all of its own, but what does it all mean?

Here, meteorologist Joanna Donnelly takes readers on a journey around Ireland’s Sea Area Forecast, visiting the places that are a familiar part of the daily broadcast and explaining its unique history, language and science.

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22305031/

HeidiHeidi · 05-10-2023 12:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121196785#Comment_121196785

I miss the days when the Sea Area Forecast as broadcast on radio was basically the only source of that information, and they read it out at a slow steady pace so that you could take it down in writing. Now THAT was hypnotic, rhythmic and soothing!

These days they just rattle through it like time is money (which it is, in fairness) - no need to pace it, given there are a hundred other sources of that exact forecast in writing.

The Coastguard on marine radio is still a throwback to the nice, measured reading of the forecast, as obviously they in some instances may literally be the only source, and they allow time to absorb/transcribe.

Ahhhh, the good old days!

(ETA - I missed the interview, thanks for flagging it, must catch it on playback)

zell12 · 12-10-2023 2:55pm

..

https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/highlights-from-the-hard-shoulder/it-was-direct-answer-to-how-i-was-feeling-joanna-donnelly-on-her-late-mums-inspiration-for-her-new-book

Darwin · 12-10-2023 8:53pm

met.ie automated forecast has gone a bit crazy again, southerly winds tomorrow and temps of 20c. Maybe Laois is getting a unique microclimate tomorrow?

sryanbruen · 18-10-2023 12:02pm

Today is a perfect example of what is wrong with our warning system in my opinion. County wide warnings are nonsensical as localised variations do occur such as the rain in Cork. Parts of Cork have more than met red level criteria for rain in the past 36 hours whilst others have certainly not. The way the UK Met do it is way better with regions.

The other thing is floods. The warning is purely for rain. It's 2023 and we still don't have a flood warning system in action. It's a necessity for planning. With warmer air holding more moisture and therefore increased risk of flooding along with buildings being built on floodplains, why is this not a top priority?

zell12 · 18-10-2023 2:26pm

https://www.thejournal.ie/yellow-weather-warnings-2-6200445-Oct2023/

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Cluedo Monopoly · 19-10-2023 6:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121253942#Comment_121253942

I remember when they started building a new housing estate in Claregalway right beside the river Clare in the 90s. A friend of mine who worked in the council was driving by and immediately went into the builders to tell them they were building on land that often flooded. They told him they knew that and kinda laughed. He then brought it up in the Galway CoCo itself and was promptly told to keep it to himself. A few years later, the river flooded very badly and many houses were destroyed. Since then they have been dredging the river and building up some banks but it will guarantee flood again. Heads should have rolled for that mess but not a chance.

Heighway61 · 22-10-2023 2:35pm

On the met.ie homepage I would click on a point on the map and it would show the weather icons for that location above and show the regional forecast for that provence. Today when I click on the map it navigates to https://www.met.ie/full-screen-maps

Have they changed it or am I missing something?

Heighway61 · 28-10-2023 10:30am

Now's yer chance lads

https://www.met.ie/we-are-recruiting-weather-forecasters-and-flood-forecasters

01-11-2023 1:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121253942#Comment_121253942

+1

The county wide system simply isn’t fit for purpose and ME needs to upgrade to something like what the Met Office has. Cork is the largest county and Louth is the smallest but even allowing for that, Monday nights rain was a North Louth event only (plus parts of SE NI too). The Met Office had an amber warning out for that part of NI btw.

Just heard Alan O’Reilly of Carlow Weather on Newstalk and he said that ME releases more detailed forecasts to the county councils. He was wondering why these weren’t released to the general public too.

Discodog · 01-11-2023 2:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121310152#Comment_121310152

Do the councils get charged for them?

01-11-2023 2:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121310345#Comment_121310345

Dunno tbh. Alan O’Reilly didn’t say anything about cost.

lolie · 01-11-2023 3:27pm

Bit of a difference on Sundays forecast.

Rebelbrowser · 04-11-2023 9:48am

For about 6 months now there is wierd glitch on the Met E website that it appears to think that we in Cork are about 12 time zones different to the rest of the country (insert your own joke here.....). In this regard it constantly shows the moon emblem for day time weather in Cork instead of the sun. I attach for example the weather forecasts respectively for Cork and Dublin tomorrow. I've posted about this before. Are they ever going to fix this?

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Heighway61 · 12-11-2023 9:10pm

Looks like Netweather are not using the new radar at Shannon. Did they use the old one?

Heighway61 · 13-11-2023 12:50am

The radar hasn't updated since 20:00.

doralives · 13-11-2023 8:45am

This massively over-hyped anthropomorphised (because psychology loike) 'Storm Debi' was brought to you by today's sponsors; the UN World Meteorological Organisation, EUMETSAT, and Met Eireann, with special thanks to Eoin Moran (supposed 'Head' of ME) and Keith Lambkin (actual Head of Climate Hysteria in ME), and all the nodding heads in ME trying to keep their jobs, God bless them all, for they too have families to feed and Netflix subscriptions to keep up with. Please petition Lettuce-Head Ryan to raise carbon taxes further so he can make the weather 'gooder'. Happy Serf'ing!

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

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