Shannon Radar being replaced.

Of course it does! Many thanks for the correction.

I can understand it being attached to the old Department of the Environment, but assumed that it had been relocated when that Department changed its focus to trying to build more houses.

It's a bit much to expect the radar to predict your microclimate. If it's drizzling outside you hardly need the radar to confirm it.

it’s drizzle over a relatively large area and it can come in waves so seeing an image of that definitely is useful for planning activities whatever you think.

Probably parts which are coming from the US and which are now caught up in customs.

Regardless of what level of cover ME may have opted for, presumably the warranty would have been valid for at least 12 months? And this thread suggests that it went live on 24 October last, so it's well within warranty period.

The following blather - taken from the above link - is mildly amusing:

"Systems developed by the company are high value assets, created with the promise of an effective operational life-cycle.

To guarantee total customer satisfaction, after-sales support services are carefully engineered to ensure high levels of systems performance. We have a dedicated department which consists of specialists, along with a network of value-adding partnerships with support related companies, in order to provide the best aftersales support to our valued customers …… "

Presumably all of those fantastic "specialist staff" in the company's "dedicated department" go skiing over the Easter weekend!

And I suspect that whoever who wrote that bilge stifled a guffaw as he wrote "our valued customers"!

The sad thing is I remember the Summers of 2007 to 2012 and they were terrible weren't they but radars online were much better back then, even drizzle was possible to detect sometimes. How have radars online deteriorated so much yet everything else has improved 1000 fold?

Radar seems to be back up working on the met eireann app

But it's also on the Shannon Estuary. Salt exposure can be a significant issue.

Back on ME website. Reckon there could have been a bit of "get that f*cking thing back up before the storm hits"

New notice on the app. Reoccurrence of a technical issue.

Hope they got more than a 24 hour warranty on the new hardware

Seems to be working again

You'd have to be a bit suspicious of the prefect symmetry of those rings lol.

Good lord.

I don't think I've ever seen the Dublin radar out of service. What gives?

ie, a redundant weather radar setup? Or are you saying that the aircraft radar are also used as weather feeds…?

It's not the same through, is it? NI/Aldergrove's view of the Dublin region is shielded by the Mourne Mountains and line-of-sight/curvature; it's the same LoS/curvature issues for Shannon and Wales.

So I wouldn't personally say the overlapping is sufficient coverage for an outage.

not at all odd, there will be a service contract in place, scheduled every 6 months. The Dublin radar will be serviced after this, it makes sense to get them both done at the same time

You'd think that they might have carried out that bit of "preventative maintenance" during the six (or was it 7) day period over Easter when it wasn't working.

you'd think that and they might have if the outage had happened closer to the time of the scheduled maintenance. The service contract will have a callout element for emergencies/failures and a 6-monthly inspection/maintenance element. In the long run, it's easier to manage (for both ME and the suppler) if the maintenance is done on schedule

Yep, easier to mange for both ME and the supplier …….. should result in a more reliable service which will benefit the service users

Notice today saying the Dublin radar under maintenance. Harder to notice the missing coverage alright.

"Shannon radar is offline for essential non-radar infrastructure works."

Looks like the painters are in town; or maybe it's the windowcleaners!