RTE weather forecast Summer 1996

IMBACKLATER

A piece of Nostalgia which may of be interest to some. So it looks like summer of 1996 was a warm,humid thundery one??? I'm too young to remember. The graphics and presentation style look very dated now but the way in which the forecaster presented the information seems very coherent and pleasant.

April O Neill

I prefer those graphics to the crappy ones we have now!

Larbre34

RTE graphics got an upgrade tonight by coincidence!

mike65

Proper weather forecasting back then, a Dr and everything!

The OP may not recall when RTE decided they were going to get "hotties" to present the weather rather than Met Error people, the Liveline switchboard nearly melted.

highdef

Good find. I must admit, I'm the person who put that up on youtube. Found it on old VHS tape and though youtube was the place to out it!!

April O Neill

Larbre34 wrote: »

RTE graphics got an upgrade tonight by coincidence!

:eek: - must see, must see!!!!

Chemical Burn

Should be back to Meteorologists, someone who knows what they are talking about. Instead of someone just mindlessly parroting back the forecast.
Like me giving a fucking quantum mechanics lecture from powerpoint and just reading. Ludicrous.

April O Neill

mike65 wrote: »

Proper weather forecasting back then, a Dr and everything!

The OP may not recall when RTE decided they were going to get "hotties" to present the weather rather than Met Error people, the Liveline switchboard nearly melted.

If I remember rightly, it was more to do with their strangulated pronunciations than their appearance. :pac:

snowstorm445

April O Neill wrote: »

:eek: - must see, must see!!!!

It's not a huge change. A few of the icons and the text have changed but that's about it. It certainly hasn't become 3D like BBC Weather, not yet anyway!

April O Neill

snowstorm445 wrote: »

It's not a huge change. A few of the icons and the text have changed but that's about it. It certainly hasn't become 3D like BBC Weather, not yet anyway!

I still prefer the BBC's old weather symbols, they are absolute classics.

Sensual Cucumber

Larbre34 wrote: »

RTE graphics got an upgrade tonight by coincidence!

Saw that it wasnt much of an upgrade really, made the temperature symbols a bit bigger a couple of other small changes. Considering how much computers have come on since 96, met eireanns animations havent really come on that much at all!

And I do like the rain animation back in 96;)

April O Neill

Sensual Cucumber wrote: »

And I do like the rain animation back in 96;)

The snow one was even better!

Sensual Cucumber

April O Neill wrote: »

The snow one was even better!

Haha i searched and find it!

April O Neill

Sensual Cucumber wrote: »

Haha i searched and find it!

What did you put into the search?

Sensual Cucumber

April O Neill wrote: »

What did you put into the search?

ooops i meant couldnt find it

SEPT 23 1989

I would like to see one the forecasts from the long hot summer of 95

downwiththatsor

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I would like to see one the forecasts from the long hot summer of 95

Its not the forecast but you can read the monthly report for july 1995 here-

http://www.met.ie/climate/MonthlyWeather/clim-1995-Jul.pdf

Sea Temps close to 17 degrees off the south coast, nice :cool:

dm09

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I would like to see one the forecasts from the long hot summer of 95

Here ya go!

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

Sensual Cucumber

dm09 wrote: »

Here ya go!

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

We sooo deserve one of those summers after the rubbish of the last 10 years:cool:

Speak Now

April O Neill wrote: »

I prefer those graphics to the crappy ones we have now!

Yeah i was particularly impressed with the air flow going anti clockwise around the Scandi high at about 2 minutes 6 seconds :rolleyes:

Speak Now

Chemical Burn wrote: »

Should be back to Meteorologists, someone who knows what they are talking about. Instead of someone just mindlessly parroting back the forecast.
Like me giving a fucking quantum mechanics lecture from powerpoint and just reading. Ludicrous.

The forecasts on the 6 and 9 o'clock news are Meteorologists, only ones worth watching.

octo

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Yeah i was particularly impressed with the air flow going anti clockwise around the Scandi high at about 2 minutes 6 seconds :rolleyes:

Well spotted. Looks like Dr Aidan made an error. Also looks like a clockwise spin around the 'L'.

April O Neill

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Yeah i was particularly impressed with the air flow going anti clockwise around the Scandi high at about 2 minutes 6 seconds :rolleyes:

Ooh, burn!

I meant I prefer them aesthetically so put your rolleyes away.

Macy0161

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

The forecasts on the 6 and 9 o'clock news are Meteorologists, only ones worth watching.

I think it's only those European/ International Forecasts that are non meteorologists at this stage iirc. The ones after all the main news shows at lunch and mid afternoon are generally the same person who's doing 6.1.

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downwiththatsor wrote: »

Its not the forecast but you can read the monthly report for july 1995 here-

http://www.met.ie/climate/MonthlyWeather/clim-1995-Jul.pdf

Sea Temps close to 17 degrees off the south coast, nice :cool:

June was hotter: http://www.met.ie/climate/MonthlyWeather/clim-1995-Jun.pdf

old hippy

Aah, '95. I recall the ice cream machine kept breaking down and an irate customer, who having queued for 10 mins threw her cone on the ground claiming it was "too big". Normally customers would complain it was "too small" :rolleyes:

The other memory from that Summer was an article in one of the papers on how we would be switching to citrus cultivation, if the weather remained as good. Wishful thinking!

April O Neill

dm09 wrote: »

Here ya go!

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

Interestingly, this clip shows that we did have a few dud days that summer. Very few, mind, and if I recall they coincided with thundery conditions but many people seem to forget about them!

Wasn't 95 the really good one?




That forecast looks perfect, somehow we managed a grey, mild, drizzly, ****ty summer last year and how next to no exciting storms. 5 days of heat and 2 days of heat and thunderstorms all summer will do.

SEPT 23 1989

April O Neill wrote: »

Interestingly, this clip shows that we did have a few dud days that summer. Very few, mind, and if I recall they coincided with thundery conditions but many people seem to forget about them!

They were a welcome relief:D

SEPT 23 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZETnvBkoI0g

Pretzill

dm09 wrote: »

Here ya go!

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

Thanks for that, I was trying to recall whether it was '95 or '96 - it was a long, hot summer, I remember all the forest fires in the Wicklow hills - those sort of summers are few and far between - I remember one in the '70's too and I think 1984 started off pretty warm. Can't really remember a good warm summer since 1995 though, aren't we due one?

ongarboy

We had some very hot spells in 2003 and 2006 with 30 degrees or more but those spells didn't last very long so they aren't as imprinted in people's memories as previous ones that lasted weeks on end (76, 83, 84 and 95).

I worked in Shannon the summer of 95 and remember counting at least 20 days where the mercury hit 27 degrees or more! I remember going out in the evenings and it being so balmy - still 20 degrees and so humid at 11pm...the memories!

April O Neill

ongarboy wrote: »

We had some very hot spells in 2003 and 2006 with 30 degrees or more but those spells didn't last very long so they aren't as imprinted in people's memories as previous ones that lasted weeks on end (76, 83, 84 and 95).

2003 was warm but overcast. Really horrible, humid, hazy, dull weather. That 2006 spell was great, I certainly remember it!

1989 was also a good 'un.