Summer 2024 - General Discussion

Status Yellow - Thunderstorm warning for Dublin, Kildare, Meath, Wicklow

Met Éireann Weather Warning

This evening and early tonight - Moderate chance of isolated thunderstorms in Kildare, Dublin, north wicklow and south Meath.

Possible impacts:
Surface flooding,
Poor visibility
Difficult travelling conditions

Valid: 19:49 Monday 22/07/2024 to 23:00 Monday 22/07/2024

Issued: 19:50 Monday 22/07/2024

Should met Éireann be renamed as a weather reporting as opposed to a weather forecasting service ,given the frequent late arrival of their warnings on thunder ?

Still a fine evening here in south Wicklow btw

High of 22.9 today

Pointless yellow warnings given in a Nowcast situation leads to Weather warning fatigue. Joanna predicted the heavier spell of rain in the central eastern area just fine in last night's forecast. No need for these yellow warnings in my opinion.

anyone know what the forecast is for this Saturday around the NASS area by any chance?
Also can anyone recommend a good weather forecasting app.

Well, it reached Lucan - absolutely lashed! Big puddles, water pooling on the roads temporarily. It's amazing the effect the few wet spells have had on the garden in only a week. Flowers finally blooming - so late in the summer, but finally.

Decent spill of rain here in Meath. There will be some flush of growth with tomorrow's sun.

Long time lurker on this forum and a great fan of MTs forecasts which I check out at least 3-4 times a week and everytime I heading off on a journey or planning outdoor activities. So just wondering why they have been seemingly less accurate of late, is it due to greater weather instability which is difficult to model?

Take for instance today. I checked MTs forecast earlier because I was going on a long journey this evening from Cork to Louth. Happy that forecast was good but by the time I was heading through Laois the rain was torrential with serious flooding on some roads and extremely poor visibility. It remained very wet for remainder of journey and was very glad to make it home. Out of interest I checked on here and I'm seeing reference to yellow warnings as for the 1st time. I blame spotify for not hearing forecast on radio while on road😁

Not sure if sarcasm or not but it's being pissing rain in my part of Dublin since just after 7pm.