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

Maybe get some rest? You sound exhausted in fairness.

This is what Met Éireann has to say about the yellow, orange, and red weather warnings.

• Yellow warnings are issued for "not unusual weather, localised danger."
• Orange warnings are infrequent, and issued for "dangerous / disruptive" weather.
• Red warnings are rare, and issued for "extremely dangerous / destructive" weather.

The WOW site is gone useless again for the last few weeks. Readings can be up to an hour out of date. The official stations can be up to 90 minutes past.

Odd thing is if you drill down on a site the readings are often there, just not displayed.

And typical 'Irish' weather over the country today... it was well 'flagged' in fairness.

Met says there is a West Galway! I thought they were unable to section counties

I've noticed that recently the Met Eireann forecasters have dropped the 'thunder' word from their forecasts. Just tonight I noticed Siobhan mention the possibility of hail and lightning for tomorrow and Friday. Previously there was always the mention of 'isolated thunderstorms' or 'slight risk of thunder' but now it's just lightning.

A new thing or just me overthinking it a bit?

Agreed. It's just what I perceived as new phraseology that made me curious as to the thunder word not being used any more. I noticed it too on the radio forecasts. Maybe it's just something no-one except weather anoraks would notice!

Radar doing its thing

"The Shannon weather radar is currently out of operation due to technical reasons. Apologies for any inconvenience."

Cut and paste from any of a dozen or more such posts on the Met.ie site over the past ten years or so. A total farce.

24h is still there

Anyone think that Mark Bowe is appalling at presenting the Weather Forecast, or should I say the "Wedder Forecast". His diction is awful for such an apparently highy qualified and much travelled Meteorologist.

Have to agree. His presentations are somewhat lacking in impact and he seems to just rush through the forecast in a deadpan style.

His diction has nothing to do with him not being a TV personality. If you do research on him you will see that he is a highly educated Meteorologist, and yet his inability to pronounce "th" in particular is one of the worst I have heard.

Sadly, Joanna is just terrible. Quite incapable of presenting a coherent broadcast. A top class meteorologist I'm sure.

What is it with Met Eireann she did not show the Friday forecast but the little boxes at the end showed Friday 18 degrees cloud and Sun yet the ME website says Friday will be wet with blustery conditions, why can't they show the correct symbols

I love how when Met Eireann made the app, they asked us for our feedback, then didn't take any of it on board.

Why is my default location set to Dublin every time I enter the app? I'm in Dublin maybe once a year. Completely useless information. Why can't you set a default location!

App also loves to crash and malfunction in fun ways. It's not the worst app in fairness, it's just the few minor issues which have never been fixed.

I tried mine just now and it defaults to my location (Limerick) no problem.

Have you checked your phone's GPS is on and permissions switched on in your phone security settings? Check if the app is up to date also.

it's defaulting there as it's not picking up location from your phone. like others have said he you checked settings? 'location not found' would indicate something isn't right there

anyway you don't actually need location enabled, just search for it manually & it'll open there from then on. you can even switch between saved searches & it open on the last one viewed

Radar seem to have gotten worse especially around Waterford City. Rain is persistent here for most of the day and heavy enough at the moment but it's not registering on the radar and just saying 5% chance of rain. Radar on Netweather.tv which hasn't been updated for the nw Shannon Radar is not far off the same as Met.ie for the area. There needs to be a proper weather station for the area and a radar for the south east to cover for the Comeragh Mountains etc.

Have they ever given a heads up when it's going down for planned maintenance...

Met Eireann website seems to now have forgotten a day of the week

Has anyone else noticed that the Met Eireann rain radar map seems to constantly show a blob of rain over the Dublin mountains constantly for the past while? Not visible on the netweather radar and doesn't seem to be any rain there now today again...let along clouds from what I can see!

Gerry said after the news it's a lovely evening in Paris and looking on TV it's lashing rain

Netweather haven't updated their radar system to include the new shannon one. The use met office uk which also hasn't updated to the new system.

Because it did not happen in the East coast