Shannon Radar being replaced.

Neither is the UK met office

Reason being it hasn't been officially commissioned yet properly probably, even if its feeding into everything properly

Windy now has data from the new radar! Netweather and UK met still don't have the data.

Goosed . A tweet with very little detail from met Eireann

"The images from the Shannon rainfall radar are currently unavailable. Local observation reports are available here⬇️"

met.ie/latest-reports…

The spider has been removed so it's back up again!

The coverage from it quite poor. Look at Netweather and its not there. Look at met.ie and it shows rain in most of Ireland but rain is just in the South so its wrong. A waste of time. Forecast radars apps are better coz at least theyr close to the reality. This Shannon radar is a sham.

Ya what's the point in that?

There's nowhere reliable to see where the showers in Southwest are. Why don't Netweather have it? They used to. Is there any app that does have it? Why is the Met Eireann Radar so utterly crap. Like yesterday it was lashing in Cork and Kerry and their radar on site showed light blue which to me means light rain. They used to have a better radar on their website before they "improved" it

Ya it NEVER works on Netweather App. Its a piece of shyte.

Netweather don't use it at all, so that's why it never works. Said they'll get around to it eventually

You'd have to wonder whether it's ironically exposure related on the West coast.

Given that Met Eireann's radar sites are the only radar sites, unfortunately yes.

Some websites offer predicted rainfall for the coming hours, however I find that can be annoyingly inaccurate at times.

One has to wonder about the quality/reliability of this new installation. It's just six months since it became operational. October 12th, 2023 I think.

Submitted a query on Met.ie and got the automated response: They'll try to reply within two weeks. 😖

well definitely. If you’d bought a car back in October and it was off tge road already and out of action for what now looks like the weekend at least, you’d be fairly pissed. It’s too soon to have a major outage like this on a new installation.

Looks like it was only a very temporary fix

it’s not good enough. It should have been fixed asap by the installer as it’s under warranty. It just feels like we’re back where we started already. I’d hoped a brand new radar would be reliable and also better pick up drizzle but neither seem to be coming true.

If someone has a connection to a TD it would be good to get a parliamentary question put to the minister about this. Huge waste of tax payers money. Did they buy the radar from Wish? Hopefully they kept the receipt.

This isn't the first time it's been down since the installation either.

Eamon Ryan is not the minister responsible for Met - that would be Darrah O'Brien, because of course it makes perfect sense for Met Éireann to be under the remot of the Department of Housing……….🤷‍♂️

I thought the same. Pure speculation on my part but I wondered if water ingress caused this latest outage?

A bit strange for a supposedly brand-new installation to just break down so soon without some external or pre-existing causative issue?

Theyl fix it during the next dry spell and itl go again the next storm. Its not a huge issue really for most people but with technology and the fact that it's 2024 you'd think the equipment would be better than 1980s standard. In fact the previous radar image on their website before the update was 1,000 times better. Remember the one that had pink and red for heavy rainfall. Now it's downgraded to a worse radar by spending over 1million of our money on it. To soften the blow they told us last October they'd be installing more radars but since then nothing. Probably as with everything in Ireland the cost of installing a new one is like inflation 3 percent "scone effect". Yes the 3 percent inflation scone effect. What's this I hear you ask. Well I've tracked the price of Scones in cannings in Sligo since early last year. The radio says inflation running at 3percent. Scones have gone up in price there in the past 12months from 2.85 last March to 4.15 this March. By December it will be a 5er for Scones or sooner.

What's all this got to do with anything. Well the cost of the upgrade to the Shannon Radar was 1.1million but using the Scone media 3 percent inflation it is now at least 1.75million to upgrade and as long as they leave it the more it goes up so you won't see any new radars in this country anytime soon since the aim of Ireland is to be the world's most expensive country.

A bit ironic that rain causes a fault in a rain radar...... 😀

I would say it’s a pretty major issue for at least one third of the country who at present have no useable rainfall radar information and it’s particularly dire for the south west which is bearing a lot of the incoming muck in recent times. I would actually say that decent rainfall radar coverage in the west coast is a priority over eastern areas which would have fallback from uk sources.

It is particularly annoying in the west because even the Dublin radar gives very little reliable data this far out.

I've a habit formed of checking the radar when I see clouds about or are expecting rain, before I leave the house. It's more annoying than you'd expect when you try to see when a shower will end but the radar gives nothing!

Current live (ish) radar from sat24 which is the best I can find as an alternative. Anyone any other ideas?

Shannon radar outage update:

The Shannon radar is offline due to a hardware fault. Since Thursday evening, our staff have been working with radar manufacturer engineers to resolve the issue.

We are conscious of the importance of this service to the public, so please be assured that we are doing all we can to restore it is as quickly as possible.