If we had the technology, would you change our weather?

Augmerson

Imagine there is some method of controlling weather, like say being able to disperse clouds, make it rain, make it snow. Would you be in favour of playing god if it mean't you didn't have to fly down to Lanzarotte to get a tan?

Pantsface

Augmerson wrote: »

Imagine there is some method of controlling weather, like say being able to disperse clouds, make it rain, make it snow. Would you be in favour of playing god if it mean't you didn't have to fly down to Lanzarotte to get a tan?

You fly down to Lanzarotte to get an STD.

mightdomighty

No, No I would hate that

Sunnyisland

Augmerson wrote: »

Imagine there is some method of controlling weather, like say being able to disperse clouds, make it rain, make it snow. Would you be in favour of playing god if it meant you didn't have to fly down to Lanzarote to get a tan?

No, sure then we would miss all the craic in the airport trying to get your ryanair seats

3ndahalfof6

yes if they let wonder woman do it

Pottler

I like the weather here. No, stop laughing, I do. I feckin do.

Teyla Emmagan

No, I burn and I like it cold.

krudler

nope, love the rain

Shryke

I would hold the country to ransom. Keep the money coming and I'll keep us in the tropics.
And any people I don't like? Lightening.
A few places would be washed away with floods while I'm at it, as a show of power as much as because I don't like them particularly.
Good times.

Xavi6

Irish weather is horrendous so any help would be welcome.

NIMAN

Of course you'd change it.

You could set it to HOT for the summer when big events are on, so you could have plenty of BBQs and beer, then allocate certain days when its going to pour down to help the farmers, keep the stuff growing.

And have it MILD all winter. No-one should ever have to live with snow and ice.

mikemac1

With this technology there would be an end to complaining from farmers

Bad Panda

Yes!

Summer - a few rainy days, but mainly warm and sunny. Around 30 degrees would be nice.

Winter - less rain, more snow.

Autumn - less rain

Spring - mild, sunny, a few showers here and there.

People saying they're happy with Irish weather are kidding themselves.

Who the f*ck wants this much rain in summer?!

Duckworth_Luas

What, no more soft days thank God?

strobe

Sure this is perfect weather for growing cabbage it is. You're mad man, mad.

flutterflye

Of course I would.
It's the main thing I hate about this country - way more than I hate the government and everything else crappy about the country.
I love our green countrysides so I wouldn't get rid of the rain entirely, I'd just give us proper distinguishable seasons.
I wouldn't mind the rain and cold and wind etc... if it were in the correct season!

Dirk Gently

nope, because we have a great climate here, not too hot, not too cold and contrary to everyones belief it doesn't rain every day either. I'm not a sun lover though.

TeddyTedson

The weather here reminds me of myself.
Dull, grey and constantly pissing:pac:

the groutch

it'd be great til it starts raining giant meatballs

Pottler

Bad Panda wrote: »

Yes!

Summer - a few rainy days, but mainly warm and sunny. Around 30 degrees would be nice.

Winter - less rain, more snow.

Autumn - less rain

Spring - mild, sunny, a few showers here and there.

People saying they're happy with Irish weather are kidding themselves.

Who the f*ck wants this much rain in summer?!

I do, I fix roofs. And I hate the hot. And I'm waterproof - I tested it, had a good few baths and showers, was grand, didn't dissolve or anything.

bb1234567

NIMAN wrote: »

Of course you'd change it.

You could set it to HOT for the summer when big events are on, so you could have plenty of BBQs and beer, then allocate certain days when its going to pour down to help the farmers, keep the stuff growing.

And have it MILD all winter. No-one should ever have to live with snow and ice.

Unless you love snow and ice which I do:)

Pherekydes

I already have.

I've made it more unsettled, cooler and wetter.


Muahahaha.

Birdie086

No.

I would miss the look of utter shock on Irish people's faces when it starts raining, I mean really come on, it happens to rain a fair bit in our lovely Isle and the general people are SHOCKED when it happens.

If the rain stopped/decreased the farmers would be raging and the general population would be looking ANOTHER thing to be shocked about

Boombastic

Yes I would. Lots more sun in summer and snow in winter. Autum and spring can stay as they are

Pottler

Pherekydes wrote: »

I already have.

I've made it more unsettled, cooler and wetter.


Muahahaha.

You basterd, I can live with your cool wetness, but your unsettled is just unsettling. Knock it off.

TeddyTedson

We're really being pissed on a lot lately:(
**** this, I'm going to sleep.

Pantsface

have to say, i love the rain during the summer, at night. its lovely and mild, have the windows open, and its not too cold to be freezing, so its lovely and fresh. Something really nice about being in bed at night listening to the rain outside, i love it

phill106

Of course i would!
I would make ireland have these things called seasons. There will be 4 of them.
1. Summer. The sun will shine hotly during the day. At night time, between the hours of 4-6 in the morning it will rain.
2. Spring. like Summer, just a tad cooler.
3. Autumn. Cooler again then spring. Perhaps a little breezy.
4. Winter. Cold enough for snow, but will only snow every third day, leaving behind pristine snow. No slush or yellow snow allowed.

christmas2012

if we had the technology we would go out and make more ozone i bet..

Gummy Panda

I'd make it rain constantly and kill most of you in a flood while I sail off on my ark laughing like a manic.

Peetrik

Yes, people always know better than nature

Bad Panda

Dirk Gently wrote: »

nope, because we have a great climate here, not too hot, not too cold and contrary to everyones belief it doesn't rain every day either. I'm not a sun lover though.

Actually, according to Met Eireann, it rains between 150 (east coast)- 225 (west) days a year in Ireland.

Not too hot? It's not hot at all!

Pottler

Gummy Panda wrote: »

I'd make it rain constantly and kill most of you in a flood while I sail off on my ark laughing like a manic.

You're a bad Panda. Your bamboo would rot, that'd soften your cough.

starlit

Yes, probably!

Pherekydes

Pottler wrote: »

You basterd, I can live with your cool wetness, but your unsettled is just unsettling. Knock it off.

Watch it! Just for that, I'm sending snow your way next week.

TheUshMan

I would make it hotter than the middle eastern climate
It wont be the emerald isle no more, it would be the desert isle!!! :eek:
evaporrattttiooonnnn :D:D:D

Pottler

Pherekydes wrote: »

Watch it! Just for that, I'm sending snow your way next week.

woohoo, I love snow, fooled ya. I've even got a snow plough, a real live one, one that cost a bomb, yannow, to plough all that snow we were supposed to get LAST FECKIN WINTER, JUST LIKE THE SNOWY ONE BEFORE, ..when I had no plough. I'm feckin sick of your unsettledness.

bobbytables

No more than a lack of control over the passage of time, the weather is another one of those things that comes in equal measure to all classes of society. Once control is obtained, that would be lost & chaos would no doubt ensue.

Pushtrak

If I had the technology? Probably. Not out of any real desire to change the weather per se, but if you have technology that will do something out of the ordinary, what are you going to do? Look at it?

Pottler

I have a tan anyway, well a builders tan - face and neck, arms as far as my t-shirt. What more could you ask for?

bnt

Oh, no. If I could muck around with the weather, the Law of Unintended Consequences would come in to full effect. We already have Chaos Theory, the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings here could potentally lead to a typhoon in the Pacific. Replace the butterfly with me and my fat fingers. Or imagine trying to keep a bunch of rabid puppies safely inside a flimsy box - and the box is the size of Wales.

Pottler

bobbytables wrote: »

No more than a lack of control over the passage of time, the weather is another one of those things that comes in equal measure to all classes of society. Once control is obtained, that would be lost & chaos would no doubt ensue.

Velly true, glasshopper.

Mr. CooL ICE

Yes, but if we had the controls, we would fcuk up our entire ecosystem.

We need to outsource the controls to a german company who would ensure the farmers get enough rain to keep the crops in check, ensure sun shines on all major events and enough overcast to keep everything in check.

Sindri

CIA intelligence suggests that Ireland is overcast about half the time.

Climate:

temperate maritime; modified by North Atlantic Current; mild winters, cool summers; consistently humid; overcast about half the time

I'd like to change the monotonous grey.

Feathers

What would you talk to strangers about? "It's a very planned summer we've been having, isn't it?"

Pottler

Feathers wrote: »

What would you talk to strangers about? "It's a very planned summer we've been having, isn't it?"

This being Ireland, we could whinge to each other about how badly we feel they are running the weather, whilst doing nothing whatsoever to pursuade them to change. Passive non-resistance. Ghandi had feckin nothing on us.

Run_to_da_hills

They have the technology to change the weather in this country.

http://i46.tinypic.com/ajow12.jpg

bb1234567

There is ways of controlling the weather already, it was used during the 2008 beijing olympics, they managed to prevent it from raining during the opening ceremony when it was forecast to rain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_modification

Yes I would in fact I have often thought of this, it would only be a small change....6 weeks of sunny warm weather in the summer ( not hot weather ) and it would be mostly dry...we would still have the same rain fall, its just we would have a dry season, my husband alway says what about the law of unintentional consequences, but I am sure the weather changing machine would be able to fix that pulse I would be the only one with the power to change the weather that should cover everything.

whendovescry

changing Irish weather by caprice would have a major impact on our biodiversity, so no I wouldn't.

IvySlayer

I'd split the country into 4 different weather zones.

Tropical, snowy tundra, bland overcast, monsoon. No more feckin moaning about the weather.