Met Eireann to be sued?

Strasser

I heard talk on the Joe Duffy show today that someone in Donegal Tourism plans to sue Met Eireann because they issued a severe weather alert last Friday as a result of which some conferences were cancelled. In the event the snow did not arrive in any significent amounts. Who'd be a weather forecaster?

Karoma

pffft.
This would lead to a huge number of lawsuits if it's true..

MarkR

File it under act of god.

Mothman

This is nonsense. There's no case against Met Eireann

This is the warning

Issued at 23 November 2005 - 13:00
Severe Weather Warning for Snow
Frequent snow showers are likely to give accumulations of between 3 and8 cm below 250 metres during the period 1200 hours Thursday to 2400hours Friday in counties Donegal, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and parts ofCavan.Strong to gale force Northerly winds will occur during the same period,giving blizzard conditions at times and causing some drifting.

and then the alert

Issued at 25 November 2005 - 01:19
Severe Weather Alert
Widespread snow showers will continue through Friday and Friday nightgiving several cm accumulation in places and some blizzard conditionsin the very strong Northerly winds.

First of all the warning says likely and the alert says in places
IMO the forecast was justified and reasonably accurate.

J.R.HARTLEY

people seem to forget that it's a forecast, a look forward, and that no amount of technology can be 100% acurate.
Like previous poster said, thats why words like "likely" and "in Places" are used.

Danno

Wouldn't it be worse if the forecast was for fine weather and the snow fall hit???

Ajnag

Either the met make with the time travel tech or remain open to liability....

jd

Strasser wrote:

I heard talk on the Joe Duffy show today that someone in Donegal Tourism plans to sue Met Eireann because they issued a severe weather alert last Friday as a result of which some conferences were cancelled.?

This guy



He does not like Met Eireann
http://www.dun-na-ngall.com/nw26.html (2001)
Sean McEniff, Chair of the Donegal tourism is angry at the Irish Meterological Service for biased reporting of the weather in Donegal. The well know Bundoran hotelier has claimed that the Met Office does not accurately report the weather in the County and has given it a 'bad weather' reputation by continuously reporting that 'rain is sweeping over Ireland from the North West'.


Maybe this thread should be moved to humour!

Supercell

Strasser wrote:

I heard talk on the Joe Duffy show today that someone in Donegal Tourism plans to sue Met Eireann because they issued a severe weather alert last Friday as a result of which some conferences were cancelled. In the event the snow did not arrive in any significent amounts. Who'd be a weather forecaster?

Good luck to them proving that Mét Eireann gave the wrong forecast with the info they had at the time...loool..what a crock o'****e..this is lawers making money off their buddy lawers..total waste of the courts time .

I hope the Met Office counter sues for time wasted.

whiskeyman

Not a chance.

However, It made me remember a story from last year:
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/04/22/meteo.shtml

Russia’s emergency situations minister, Sergei Shoigu, has proposed punishing meteorologists for giving wrong forecasts.

Supercell

jd wrote:

THis GUy
http://www.fiannafail.ie/new/site/person.php4?pid=154&show=Councillor



He does not like Met Eireann
http://www.dun-na-ngall.com/nw26.html (2001)
Sean McEniff, Chair of the Donegal tourism is angry at the Irish Meterological Service for biased reporting of the weather in Donegal. The well know Bundoran hotelier has claimed that the Met Office does not accurately report the weather in the County and has given it a 'bad weather' reputation by continuously reporting that 'rain is sweeping over Ireland from the North West'.


Maybe this thread should be moved to humour!

humour is the best place for it..this is a polititon puting the "tit" into Poli"tit"ion ..what a vote grabbing twat.

whiskeyman

tbh...

Supercell

LoL .nice pic

Ah that guy again...

Iirc he threatened lawsuits before( a few years ago ) on account of the bad weather that Donegal is supposed to have :rolleyes:

Two people I know who moved to this part of Ireland(where I live) at about the same time told me the same thing.
One was from West Cork and the other from Leitrim-they said they couldnt get over how dry it was in comparison to where they were from.

I also heard the same comment from a friend of mine living in Donegal who is from down here commenting on how wet it is there in comparison to here.

Hard to believe I suppose with the exceptional wet october we had..but the case none the less

Mothman

Just listening to this now,

gas listening. The instruments at Finner Camp are wrong......:rolleyes:

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/liveline/

The Donegal guys are giving out the weather was not bad on Saturday.

The alert was for Friday and not for Saturday.


Now Joe is being accused of hyping it up by the Met Office rep..

Mothman

LOL it gets better.

Worth a listen. The first 30 minutes.

:rolleyes:

Peace

I can vouch for the fact met eireann give Donegal bad weather reports...

Mothman

Peace wrote:

I can vouch for the fact met eireann give Donegal bad weather reports...

Meaning what?

I presume you mean that the weather is often different to what is forecast.
Is Donegal often singled out?

If that is the case, I suggest we keep a watch, but regarding last Friday, IMO the forecast was justified. Malin Head reported showers all day.

Mothman

Mothman wrote:

LOL it gets better.

Worth a listen. The first 30 minutes.

:rolleyes:

Rofl

I'm listening to it now...

billy the squid

whiskeyman wrote:

tbh...

With a head that size he can afford to loose a few pounds/euros.

This is bollox to be honest. The UK met office predicted a good chance of snow and the models from weterzentral showed the possibility of snow all over the country.

If anything the forcast was conservative compared to other weather organisations.

fatherdougalmag

Just as well he doesn't read Weathercheck's forecasts

mike65

Rofl! If such an action was possible then the UK Met Office would still be paying off a bad call in 1987!

Mike.

Ajnag

Rofl! If such an action was possible then the UK Met Office would still be paying off a bad call in 1987!

Rumour has it Micheal Fish is imprisioned in the depths of the uk stock exchange fed yuppie remains from the 80s