Irish Weather in the Media - Summer 2008

Danno

May I suggest a media thread in relation to current weather that we can drop in bits and pieces we find online that may be of interest.

To start the ball rolling, and what may be of interest to a certain Green Giant from Trim, I'd like to post this interesting offering from Breaking News...

Link: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhqlcwidkfmh/

TheGreenGiant

thats pretty cool mate:)

Hal1

The didn't call them 'mini' , and another thing from that article isn't it supposed to rain for 40 more days if it rains on a certain day of the year 'St Stimsons day' (sp)? I googled but couldn't find anything to back it up :pac:

CrowdedHouse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Swithin%27s_Day

Hal1

St Swithun's day if thou dost rainFor forty days it will remainSt Swithun's day if thou be fairFor forty days 'twill rain na mair Swithun was buried out of doors, rather than in his cathedral, apparently at his own request, so that the "sweet rain of heaven" could fall on his grave. :pac:

sunset

Be advised that the newspaper article quoted in the first item of this thread is factually incorrect in its main weather information. The reports of tornadoes have been investigated and none of them were found to be tornadoes at all.Both the meath event and the Co. Cork event were funnel clouds, no more that that. To say that it is unusual for more than one to occur on the same day is simply wrong. There have been many such cases in Ireland. It is incorrect to say that usually there are 10 tornadoes per year. The totals have varied between 6 and 14. It is particularly inaccurate to say most of them occur in August. They have occurred in every month of the year, winter and summer. The lesson is, don't believe newpaper or TV reports of tornadoes. Its good that Danno started this thread so such inaccuracies can be highlighted.