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Weather in the Media: TV, TABLOIDS etc.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 635 ✭✭✭Video


    The papers over dramatise almost everything... we've been through this for the past few months now, nothing new. I do expect stormy conditions over the weekend but nothing we haven't been through a million times before .


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    If you want to know what the weather will be like, the last place on earth you should be looking for information is the hysterical British tabloid press.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    2 people said to me at work today that there was a heatwave expected next week. Anyone have a source for this?


  • Registered Users Posts: 635 ✭✭✭Video


    2 people said to me at work today that there was a heatwave expected next week. Anyone have a source for this?

    I dont mean to be rude but this is all i have to say... LOL


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    2 people said to me at work today that there was a heatwave expected next week. Anyone have a source for this?

    It won't be a heatwave but if the pressure charts are correct it will be high teens maybe 20 come late next week.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    Apparently Ray Darcy mentioned something about it this morning? Although to be fair I also recall hearing talk of a heatwave this week to....


  • Registered Users Posts: 910 ✭✭✭downwiththatsor


    Newstalk mentioned it as well this morning, the highly reputable source was The Daily Mirror / Exacta weather :rolleyes:
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/giant-jellyfish-set-attack-heatwave-3509341


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    Not sure if it affects our weather here in ireland .... Probably just means more rain :rolleyes:

    http://news.yahoo.com/el-nino-back-know-2014-version-222327719.html


  • Registered Users Posts: 845 ✭✭✭tylercollins


    The Express getting in on this weekends weather action, obviously never going to happen now since it is now publicised!

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/480038/Shock-UK-weather-warning-Tornadoes-hail-thunderstorms-and-lightning-to-ravage-Britain


  • Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭cotton


    Not sure if expert meteorologist, or Hollywood script writer.

    Dramatic to say the least. :rolleyes:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Guess what and guess who!?

    Britain's just getting warmed up: Get ready for one of the hottest summers EVER

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/481133/Get-ready-for-one-of-hottest-summers-ever

    Above average temperatures are likely for the rest of June, July and August.

    If the Met Office is right, the average temperature across day and night will be just under 60F (15.25C), making this summer one of the nine hottest on record.

    After a rainy June, the school holiday period of July and August is set to be drier than usual, forecasters say.

    Government, transport and council chiefs are all briefed on the Met Office’s seasonal forecast, even though it is not released publicly following 2009’s no-show “BBQ summer” blunder.

    It indicates summer temperatures are more than twice as likely to be well above average than below par.

    The forecast says: “Predictions favour near or above average temperatures for June to August, with near or above average precipitation for June.

    Sigh....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01hn0cq

    p01l9nkk.jpg

    A team of scientists is taking to the skies in the world’s largest airship, the Skyship 600, for one of television's most ambitious experiments on the atmosphere.

    Flying from coast to coast, across the USA, in a month-long expedition for the BBC Two series Operation Cloud Lab: Secrets of the Skies, the team of British scientists will scrutinise insect life, the relationship between life and weather, as well as how hurricanes form.

    The team, which includes an entomologist, meteorologist and professional explorer, is also hoping to shed light on the creation of clouds and the relationship between diverse ecosystems and weather.

    The airship is a unique platform for exploring the atmosphere. It can maintain a stationary position, so the team is able to watch weather phenomena develop, and then manoeuvre to get the best vantage point. It flies slowly and is exceptionally stable, making it the ideal base from which to conduct scientific experiments.

    Series producer James Van Der Pool, explains: "The 100 kilometres or so of air above our heads is all that separates us from space. It’s in every breath we take and makes Earth habitable. Yet for all its centrality to the health of the planet there’s a lot we still don’t know about the atmosphere. For instance, at what altitude does life cease? What type of air is most likely to cause rain? With Cloud Lab we have a rare and exciting opportunity to address some of these questions head on."

    Skimming the ocean’s surface and drifting with the wind allows the team to explore the physics that control the creation and destruction of cumulus cloud as well as using the Cloud Lab’s sophisticated technology to examine a growing cloud's internal anatomy.

    Through sampling different types of air, from sea, and desert to city, while simultaneously measuring cloud cover, the team will attempt to understand what types of air produce the most cloud.

    During the trip, the entomologist will use the airship as a sampling platform to produce a unique survey of the insect life that lives above the USA. Bats will also be filmed using a range of technology, revealing how they have learned to exploit these insect superhighways.

    Other experiments include researching the role of plants in maintaining the balance of the atmosphere through measuring the amount of oxygen produced by a forest. The team will also be looking into the causes of wildfires - the recent spate of which have claimed so many lives.

    BBC executive producer of Operation Cloud Lab: Secrets of the Skies, Jonathan Renouf, explains: "Flying across the entire North American continent by airship is ambitious in every conceivable way. As far as we know, no one has done this for two decades. It’s incredibly exciting because we will get to explore the atmosphere in a way that’s never been done before, as well as seeing America from a unique vantage point."


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 stupidwhistler


    what's the music used in the advert?


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,949 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    For a bit of historical context, I here's a video animation of the 1914 Hurricane season. Things were different a century ago:

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



  • Registered Users Posts: 845 ✭✭✭tylercollins




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard



    Two-part documentary following a team of scientists as they explore the earth's atmosphere, travelling in an airship. The team begin their expedition by examining clouds.

    Wednesday at 20.00

    Ep 2 following Wed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    Not a bad watch if you have an hour or so to kill
    Also lots of other weather / science docs to browse





  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Jesus they just don;t let up do they? The weather or Diana.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    airman737 wrote: »
    Jesus they just don;t let up do they? The weather or Diana.


    Ah here, we need to take these warnings seriously. I mean, when buildings start to burst into flames, it don't get much more serious than that.
    The dire warnings came just hours after Eastbourne's historic Victorian pier was razed to the ground as scorching temperatures once again roasted the south coast.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    More "heatwave" chatter this time Irish media in the last 18 hours, the pressure charts definitely say NO at the moment.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    More "heatwave" chatter this time Irish media in the last 18 hours, the pressure charts definitely say NO at the moment.
    Head this on Today FM News this morning. They mentioned Met Eireann as being the source which I find very hard to believe.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭JM Skipton


    Head this on Today FM News this morning. They mentioned Met Eireann as being the source which I find very hard to believe.

    John Eagleton was quoted as saying that this week will be mixed and unsettled but there is a possibility that a scandinavian high would move down over us after that.He also said that this was not definite which the media seem to have omitted from their reports. Have not seen any indications of this myself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Lumi


    Latest Bertha Update: Express-Style.....:rolleyes:
    SHOCK MAP: This HURRICANE is heading STRAIGHT for the UK and will smash into us on SUNDAY

    A VICIOUS STORM nicknamed Big Bertha has grown into a HURRICANE and is on a terrifying collision course with Britain, shocked forecasters warned tonight.

    dd0d91eb67034199523bb324f622fa7e_zps4ce41540.jpg
    This shocking map shows the projected path of Big Bertha as it rages towards Britain[magicseaweed.com]

    Rest here


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    A previously unknown asteroid belt has been located in deep space and is now hurtling towards our part of the solar system.

    It means a 'global killer' could collide with Earth as soon as 2020, wiping out life as we know it and changing the climate for millennia.

    The terrifying predictions came as NASA revealed disturbing new data showing 400 impacts are expected between 2017 and 2113, based on new observational data of objects seen in space over the past 60 days.

    Most will have a maximum diameter of around 100 metres - the size of seven double decker buses - and the potential to cause significant damage.

    But concerned scientists warned a colossal "monster" is also heading our way, with one 'mega' asteroid threatening earth in just SIX years.

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/507480/Asteroid-Strikes-Earth-Damage-Nasa-Destruction
    And I thought I had heard it all from the Express.....:pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭sunbabe08


    Um ok, do people really still believe EVERYTHING that comes from the daily express?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    A small meteorite landed near the international airport in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, on Saturday night, government officials say.

    Residents reported hearing a loud bang and feeling the impact, which left a crater 12m (40ft) wide and 5m deep.

    Government spokeswoman Rosario Murillo said the meteorite seemed to have broken off an asteroid which was passing close to Earth.

    She said international experts had been called in to investigate further.

    No-one was hurt when it hit the wooded area near the international airport and an air force base.

    Its much like that meteor that hit russia in 2013 that same day a much bigger asteroid was passing close to earth.....


    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29106843


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,766 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT: Man pulls car out of garage and right into tornado (VIDEO)




    The full article....

    http://q13fox.com/2014/09/09/see-it-to-believe-it-man-pulls-car-out-of-garage-and-right-into-tornado-video/


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    A cantankerous sunspot region erupted with a powerful X1.6-class solar flare at just the wrong time Wednesday. The blast was pointing right at us. That means any resulting outburst of electrically charged particles, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME, could have a disruptive effect.

    "Initial information suggests that CME is likely associated with this event, but further analysis is underway at this time," the National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center

    http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/solar-storm-warning-sun-shoots-x-flare-outburst-earth-n200321


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