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New RTE Weather Presenter?

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  • #32
    PukkaStukka
    Registered Users Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭PukkaStukka


    Oneiric 3 wrote: »
    Spotted another new face on the late RTE weather just now. Didn't catch her name unfortunately. She seems to have a soft, midwest accent, which is refreshing to hear, but I'm biased. Her presentation style is relaxed and easy. :)

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    I think this lady is Michelle Dillon who presented an excellent talk at the Irish Met Society last year about aviation forecasting.


  • #33
    jambofc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭jambofc


    a quick google of Michelle Dillon and....well yea i wish she was presenting the weather on rte :D


  • #34
    jungleman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 803 ✭✭✭jungleman


    You just can't beat Jean Byrne. She is the Rachel Riley of the weather scene. When she's on the telly, let's just say the temperature rises and there is a strong possibility of some moisture.


  • #35
    Comhrá
    Registered Users Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    jungleman wrote: »
    You just can't beat Jean Byrne. She is the Rachel Riley of the weather scene. When she's on the telly, let's just say the temperature rises and there is a strong possibility of some moisture.

    ......and a slow-moving warm front...


  • #36
    Maidhci
    Registered Users Posts: 864 ✭✭✭Maidhci


    I think all of Met Éireann's presenters are very good, I am not a fan of the TV weather presenters. I consider Evelyn Cusack to be one of the most informative and best presenters. She has been compiling and presenting forecasts for many many years and has considerable experience and insight. I distinctly remember her gracious presentation during her supposedly last forecast at the time that RTÉ (Joe Mulholland) had decided to follow the silly weather presentation model of TG4. It was thankfully a decision that he lived to regret and subsequently reverse. After all, there is more to weather forecasting and presentation than just a pretty face.


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  • #37
    Comhrá
    Registered Users Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Maidhci wrote: »
    I think all of Met Éireann's presenters are very good, I am not a fan of the TV weather presenters. I consider Evelyn Cusack to be one of the most informative and best presenters. She has been compiling and presenting forecasts for many many years and has considerable experience and insight. I distinctly remember her gracious presentation during her supposedly last forecast at the time that RTÉ (Joe Mulholland) had decided to follow the silly weather presentation model of TG4. It was thankfully a decision that he lived to regret and subsequently reverse. After all, there is more to weather forecasting and presentation than just a pretty face.

    Given the two mins. or so slot they get to work within, the Met. E presenters get in a lot of information and sometimes a little explanatory stuff on various weather phenomena as well, I think they do a great job, and for about 95% of the viewers, the information is both accurate and comprehensive enough.


  • #38
    oldsmokey
    Registered Users Posts: 781 ✭✭✭oldsmokey


    Can't warm to that Donnelly woman at all, that stupid D4-mid-atlantic accent, the arm-waving, the 'pulses' of rain, and Christ, she looks severe - same as that other self-important creature Siobhan Ryan...I admire the BBC in how they're not afraid to bring on somebody with a Scottish, Welsh, Liverpool or whatever accent - Paddy presenters must lose whatever regional accent they mighjt have in order to 'progress'.
    I do love Jean's dulcet tones though..


  • #39
    Speak Now
    Registered Users Posts: 8,504 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    oldsmokey wrote: »
    Can't warm to that Donnelly woman at all, that stupid D4-mid-atlantic accent, the arm-waving, the 'pulses' of rain, and Christ, she looks severe - same as that other self-important creature Siobhan Ryan...I admire the BBC in how they're not afraid to bring on somebody with a Scottish, Welsh, Liverpool or whatever accent - Paddy presenters must lose whatever regional accent they mighjt have in order to 'progress'.
    I do love Jean's dulcet tones though..

    Haven't seen her on the telly but she must have a different voice to her radio one smile.png Love hearing her doing the 7:55 radio forecast. Always thought there was a touch of culchie in the accent biggrin.png Best voice of all the presenters. Maybe she's picked up a bit of Harm's accent tongue.png


  • #40
    Comhrá
    Registered Users Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Fair play to Siobhan for using the cupla focail Gaeilge on the 9.30pm forecast tonight. Nice little touch for the eve of St. Patrick's Day.


  • #41
    brick man
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭brick man


    tippman1 wrote:
    Fair play to Siobhan for using the cupla focail Gaeilge on the 9.30pm forecast tonight. Nice little touch for the eve of St. Patrick's Day.


    Oh she is very soothing alright !!


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  • #42
    Oscar Bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 10,054 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Joanna Donnelly on again this evening, very relaxed and gives a nice detailed forecast. :)


  • #43
    Oneiric 3
    Registered Users Posts: 6,235 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    I like her presenting style. Goes into good detail without descending into pointless and off putting technobabble, which is the mark of a good scientist and communicator. She's doesn't hold back on the stats either, which earns her an extra point from me. :)

    New Moon



  • #44
    Bellerstring
    Registered Users Posts: 655 ✭✭✭Bellerstring


    Been reading a lot of feedback about Joanne Donnelly online and in newspapers(Indo).
    It has been almost 100% positive.
    She's a breath of fresh air.
    She's really professional.
    She is very relaxed.
    She's so friendly and knowledgable.
    Well, I'm sorry to rain on this parade, but I think she has the most distractingly squeaky voice, constantly tripping over her words, and she seems to be making it up as she goes along.
    She has the most casual attitude to presenting, bordering on the sloppy and the who gives a f*** if I don't get it right.
    My least favorite weather presenter on RTE.
    (or any channel)


  • #45
    Call me Al
    Registered Users Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭Call me Al


    Siobhan Ryan (I think) just said County Mullingar.. I can just imagine the stick she will get for this.


  • #46
    pauldry
    Registered Users Posts: 6,870 ✭✭✭pauldry


    I think joanna is very good

    her interest in the weather comes across well

    big article in saturdays mail about her

    RE fertility and weather and harm.

    Shes apparently a weather nerd like us


  • #47
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,776 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Joanna is excellent, the more professional meteorologists than media presenters on the forecasts the better.


  • #48
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    Joanna is excellent, the more professional meteorologists than media presenters on the forecasts the better.

    Doing an excellent informative job I would think.


  • #49
    Jpmarn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Jpmarn


    She got slagged about her Co. Mullingar mention on the RTE Down On The Farm programme.


  • #50
    Speak Now
    Registered Users Posts: 8,504 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    She gave a very good forecast on the 7:55 forecast this morning. Explained in layman's terms about downdrafts. Very unusual for the rushed forecast at that time but nice to hear her go into the detail. The chirpiest voice on the radio biggrin.png despite the miserable forecast frown.png


  • #51
    Texas Jack
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 531 ✭✭✭Texas Jack


    That lady that presents the weather on Good Morning Britain, Laura Tobin, is really nice/good.


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  • #52
    Ilovelucy
    Registered Users Posts: 703 ✭✭✭Ilovelucy


    Nice little tribute to Prince there tonight by Joanna.


  • #53
    lab man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭lab man


    Ilovelucy wrote:
    Nice little tribute to Prince there tonight by Joanna.


    I seen the forecast but missed wat she said ... Wat did she say lucy


  • #54
    pauldry
    Registered Users Posts: 6,870 ✭✭✭pauldry


    im not lucy but she said

    no rain....purple or otherwise


  • #55
    lab man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭lab man


    Aah ya I heard that but didn't cop on


  • #56
    PukkaStukka
    Registered Users Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭PukkaStukka


    She doesn't just deliver a good forecast. She looks fantastic too :)


  • #57
    Smoothrider
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭Smoothrider


    Have to say that I am genuinely surprised by any authentic feedback on Joanna D that is encouraging. I find her manner of presenting the weather to be almost like a transition year student playing tv presenter in a amateur role play. She sounds like Bosco and seems completely on edge when on the air. She constantly stumbles all over the place with her start-stop, re-start sentences and seems to have real problems achieving the continuity required for a smooth presentation. When it comes to the weather, we really need a safe pair of hands for the six one or nine o'clock and JD is not even up to school girl league in my book. Nothing at all got to do with looks, it's just that she is clearly not even close to the best we have. Jean Byrne, Helen Curran, Audrey McGrath and Gerry Murphy are our current front bench people for the weather, so let's us them. Of course, in an ideal world we'd have Gerald Fleming back on six one. He was / is a natural and should be brought back to sort this crisis out.


  • #58
    jd
    Registered Users Posts: 5,680 ✭✭✭jd


    Smoothrider wrote: »
    Jean Byrne, Helen Curran, Audrey McGrath and Gerry Murphy are our current front bench people for the weather, so let's us them.
    Helen Curran and Audrey McGrath are not meteorologists


  • #59
    pad199207
    Registered Users Posts: 7,114 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Smoothrider wrote: »
    Have to say that I am genuinely surprised by any authentic feedback on Joanna D that is encouraging. I find her manner of presenting the weather to be almost like a transition year student playing tv presenter in a amateur role play. She sounds like Bosco and seems completely on edge when on the air. She constantly stumbles all over the place with her start-stop, re-start sentences and seems to have real problems achieving the continuity required for a smooth presentation. When it comes to the weather, we really need a safe pair of hands for the six one or nine o'clock and JD is not even up to school girl league in my book. Nothing at all got to do with looks, it's just that she is clearly not even close to the best we have. Jean Byrne, Helen Curran, Audrey McGrath and Gerry Murphy are our current front bench people for the weather, so let's us them. Of course, in an ideal world we'd have Gerald Fleming back on six one. He was / is a natural and should be brought back to sort this crisis out.

    Couldn't disagree with this drivel anymore


  • #60
    Pat Dunne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,000 ✭✭✭Pat Dunne


    pad199207 wrote: »
    Couldn't disagree with this drivel anymore

    You "couldn't disagree"? So you do agree? :confused:


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  • #61
    Smoothrider
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭Smoothrider


    My preference would be for the announcers to be meteorologists but if it is a choice between a meteorologist who simply, and quite obviously, cannot deliver the weather news in a competent fashion and a professional announcer who can carry the presentation in a clear and concise manner then I'll opt for the latter any day of the week.


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