The Nine O' Clock news forecast

jumpguy

Did anyone just see it? How completely useless MET is. John Eagleton was there, and he basically said "yeah, eh, we're not sure about tomorrow, could snow, could just be rain, kthxbye". What a load of crap, we pay taxes for this ****?

Witcher

"We pay taxes!!!!! Rabble! Rabble!"

brummytom

They can't realise predict the weather. They have a dart-board with different weather icons on; blindfold a researcher and they choose it that way.

They've obviously lost the dart-board

Pushtrak

brummytom wrote: »

They can't realise predict the weather. They have a dart-board with different weather icons on; blindfold a researcher and they choose it that way.

They've obviously lost the dart-board

Nope. The recession hit, and the researcher f'd off to the pub.

Weather Forecast.

dambarude

I was laughing all the way through the weather.
John Eagleton was smiling and shrugging and joking non-stop!

Dyr

"t'would be a lovely little country if you could only roof it"

Panda

Dont pay your taxes! That'll learn 'em on the news forecast!

hada

dambarude wrote: »

I was laughing all the way through the weather.
John Eagleton was smiling and shrugging and joking non-stop!

Ah that would be good old Johnny - he's a real joker you see.



/sarcasm

Captain Darling

Weather Report in unreliability shocker!!!

I'm just about to sit at my desk and write a strongly worded letter!!

Plowman

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dambarude

hada wrote: »

Ah that would be good old Johnny - he's a real joker you see.



/sarcasm

At him

Not with him

R0ot

I for one welcome our MET Éireann overlords.

beauty101

It's RTE, the people who have kept Fair City on the air for 20yrs..what do you expect?

Larianne

John Eagleton always gives a wishy washy forecast! No messing around with Evelyn Cusack though. I'm pretty sure they write their own scripts.

I'd say the lads are gutted it wasn't Jean Byrne on tonight. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055639845

Dartz

The weather forecast:

It will be ****ing cold. I mean really ****ing cold. Maybe

We blame global warming for it.

Biggins

jumpguy wrote: »

Did anyone just see it? How completely useless MET is. John Eagleton was there, and he basically said "yeah, eh, we're not sure about tomorrow, could snow, could just be rain, kthxbye". What a load of crap, we pay taxes for this ****?

I could be wrong but as far as I know the weather presenters are actually given the necessary data and info via our department of defence.
I know the BBC weather reporters are in actual fact paid by their department of defence more so.
(They don't actually get their wages direct from the BBC corporation)
So while our lot might need to brush up on their analysis skills, I'd personally not be rushing to jump on them 100%
Your only as good as the tools your working with - and besides, mother nature is not an exact science.


Thats not to say the TV lot might be still useless anyway!

Cian92

Oh don't get me started on met eireann... It appears to me that the forecast is aimed at Dublin, on St Stephens day we hit -3degrees that night in Cork the road conditions were treacherous, barely a mention on the news, wasn't even forecasted to freeze down here..:mad:

Also how come they don't do a mountain area forecast?:mad:

Black Magic

Gerald Fleming put his autograph up for sale. Must be hard up. Poor soul.

http://www.bendunne.com/ads/9500-gerald-fleming-autograph

hooradiation

jumpguy wrote: »

Did anyone just see it? How completely useless MET is. John Eagleton was there, and he basically said "yeah, eh, we're not sure about tomorrow, could snow, could just be rain, kthxbye". What a load of crap, we pay taxes for this ****?

ITT: Jumpguy is shocked to learn that attempting to predict the future is not an exact science.

PaulKK

Cian92 wrote: »

Oh don't get me started on met eireann... It appears to me that the forecast is aimed at Dublin, on St Stephens day we hit -3degrees that night in Cork the road conditions were treacherous, barely a mention on the news, wasn't even forecasted to freeze down here..:mad:

Also how come they don't do a mountain area forecast?:mad:

Everywhere was treacherous.

They have a limited time frame so the will try to cover the more populated areas, if you want local info you should listen to your local radio station etc instead of national information.

darkman2

jumpguy wrote: »

Did anyone just see it? How completely useless MET is. John Eagleton was there, and he basically said "yeah, eh, we're not sure about tomorrow, could snow, could just be rain, kthxbye". What a load of crap, we pay taxes for this ****?

The Eagle was right to say that. That is exactly what we have been saying on the weather forum. It's a very uncertain, marginal situation. It could be raining where you are and literally up the road snowing. It's that kind of pickle. You will either have lots of snow or you won't. Very marginal. They have to be careful what they say. I think some nut in Donegal tried to sue them one time cause they said it would snow when it did'nt:rolleyes:

irish_bob

john engleton always has the look of a guilty man when reading the weather as if he is the reason its crap , better to have the delicious and sensual godess that is jean byrne delivering the forecast;)

Piste

I thought this would be a hilarious thread about RTE attempting to predict what the news would be for the nest while.

dsmythy

Well something might be falling on your head anyway.

ejmaztec

jumpguy wrote: »

Did anyone just see it? How completely useless MET is. John Eagleton was there, and he basically said "yeah, eh, we're not sure about tomorrow, could snow, could just be rain, kthxbye". What a load of crap, we pay taxes for this ****?

He's probably got a weather bet on with Paddy Power and doesn't want to fuck the odds up by giving the game away.

opinion guy

hahaha weather forecast...


FREEZIO!!!!!!!!

jumpguy

ejmaztec wrote: »

He's probably got a weather bet on with Paddy Power and doesn't want to fuck the odds up by giving the game away.

Haha probably. Seriously though, I can understand the conditions are marginal, but couldn't he have said that? The way he said it to a layman was:

"The pressure...the pressure...ehh...could snow, could rain"

K-9

Biggins wrote: »

I could be wrong but as far as I know the weather presenters are actually given the necessary data and info via our department of defence.
I know the BBC weather reporters are in actual fact paid by their department of defence more so.
(They don't actually get their wages direct from the BBC corporation)
So while our lot might need to brush up on their analysis skills, I'd personally not be rushing to jump on them 100%
Your only as good as the tools your working with - and besides, mother nature is not an exact science.


Thats not to say the TV lot might be still useless anyway!

I'd say you are right.

BBC NI seem to be more reliable for Northern areas than RTE though.

opinion guy

Weather forecast in Ireland is meaningless seeing as any day of the year we coudl experience all four seasons in one day. so you must always wear layers and remember to bring and umbrella and sunglasses. job done. no need for MET Eireann

CrazyRabbit

They're using a supercomputer called 'Stokes' to do the weather predictions. It's a Silicon Graphics Altix ICE 8200EX computer with 2,560 processors and 5,120G RAM. Basically...a few million quids worth.

But...there is a problem you see. It's over 3 years old (closer to 4 actually), and in 'computer years' that is ancient. It's no wonder the predictions are so vague and useless.

So...all they need to do is upgrade the server. Stick in an extra 2gb of RAM, double the processors and install Windows 7 as the Operating System and everything will be fine.

**(This post is sponsored by Intel and Microsoft)

opinion guy

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

They're using a supercomputer called 'Stokes' to do the weather predictions. It's a Silicon Graphics Altix ICE 8200EX computer with 2,560 processors and 5,120G RAM. Basically...a few million quids worth.

But...there is a problem you see. It's over 3 years old (closer to 4 actually), and in 'computer years' that is ancient. It's no wonder the predictions are so vague and useless.

So...all they need to do is upgrade the server. Stick in an extra 2gb of RAM, double the processors and install Windows 7 as the Operating System and everything will be fine.

**(This post is sponsored by Intel and Microsoft)

No way a supercomputer with 5,120 processers and 7G of RAM is powerful enough to run Windows at a useable speed :rolleyes:

Duiske

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

So...all they need to do is upgrade the server.

Or maybe move to Algeria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl2dvHEqvMg

jk86

Black Magic wrote: »

Gerald Fleming put his autograph up for sale. Must be hard up. Poor soul.

http://www.bendunne.com/ads/9500-gerald-fleming-autograph

Wow, Ben Dunnes website really is as bad as it sounds from the radio ads

tech77

Duiske wrote: »

Or maybe move to Algeria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl2dvHEqvMg

Class.
That guy has the easiest job in Algeria- he even seems to smirk half-way through.
Much funnier than The Fast Show.

BluesBerry

Black Magic wrote: »

Gerald Fleming put his autograph up for sale. Must be hard up. Poor soul.

http://www.bendunne.com/ads/9500-gerald-fleming-autograph

OMG I bought it best 50 euro Ive ever spent hurrah *jumps for joy*



Its mine I tells ya all mine

tech77

jumpguy wrote: »

The way he said it to a layman was:
"The pressure...the pressure...ehh...could snow, could rain"

Give the guy a break.
By the looks of that quote, he's under severe stress.

jumpguy

tech77 wrote: »

Give the guy a break.
By the looks of that quote, he's under severe stress.

The guy is. I love John Eagleton, but it's actually pretty important I know if it snows or not tomorrow, and he made a balls of it on the wrong night.

Que the weather guys saying: BUT JUMPGUY IT'S NOT HIS FAUUUULT!!!

tooler08

tech77 wrote: »

Give the guy a break.
By the looks of that quote, he's under severe stress.

You mean high pressure

tech77

jumpguy wrote: »

The guy is. I love John Eagleton, but it's actually pretty important I know if it snows or not tomorrow, and he made a balls of it on the wrong night.

Que the weather guys saying: BUT JUMPGUY IT'S NOT HIS FAUUUULT!!!

My post was a joke.
Didn't think i'd have to embolden "the pressure, the pressure" bit to make that clear.
I will now.

tech77

tooler08 wrote: »

You mean high pressure

Yeah that was kinda the joke in my post.
Seems to have been missed though.

jumpguy

tech77 wrote: »

Yeah that was kinda the joke in my post.
Seems to have been missed though.

I know tech man, hence I said "seriously".

Your joke was hilarious man! Look, I'll even thank it...

EDIT: Oh wait I never said seriously. Apologies!

Jev/N

Well at least he's being honest, he said it'd be more probable to see snow on Thursday but tomorrow it's not definite

It'll either fall as rain, sleet or snow depending on the location, altitude and temp. (JC science there for ya) so I don't see how you found issues with the forecast??

It's not an exact science, like

tooler08

tech77 wrote: »

Yeah that was kinda the joke in my post.
Seems to have been missed though.

What you said in your post went over my head like a fooking jumper

kraggy

beauty101 wrote: »

It's RTE, the people who have kept Fair City on the air for 20yrs..what do you expect?

It's not RTE. It's Met Eireann.

RTE have no input towards what's said about the forecast. They just broadcast it.

Blackbetty68

kraggy wrote: »

It's not RTE. It's Met Eireann.

RTE have no input towards what's said about the forecast. They just broadcast it.

true words

Ciaran187

In Soviet Russia, the weather predicts you.