John Creedon's Weather Sunday 6.30pm RTE1

BabysCoffee

Anyone watching John Creedon's weather on RTE now?

finnharpsboy

Look at all that wonderful snow

BabysCoffee

Is this guy a volunteer for Met Eireann?

finnharpsboy

BabysCoffee wrote: »

Is this guy a volunteer for Met Eireann?

whatever about going up there on a nice sunny day, imagine going up there with his bits of paper and pen in the lashing rain and gale force winds :eek:

amdublin

I remember that summer well!

BabysCoffee

finnharpsboy wrote: »

whatever about going up there on a nice sunny day, imagine going up there with his bits of paper and pen in the lashing rain and gale force winds :eek:

Going up there to get a measurement of -16.4 on the grass in 2010!!! :eek:

amdublin

Awww the poor animals

is mise spartacus

An hour long program about Irish weather
It's official, we are obsessed.

finnharpsboy

I wonder does he get to go to the ME christmas party??

BabysCoffee

finnharpsboy wrote: »

I wonder does he get to go to the ME christmas party??

No. He has to take a recording on the hour every hour 365 days a year. He can't leave his post!!!

finnharpsboy

this fella now is boring, give us more of the volunteer

Limestone1

Is that guy actually a volunteer ? i.e. he doesn't get paid anything ?

BabysCoffee

Cloud spotting! I'd love to get up in a plane like this

BabysCoffee

Limestone1 wrote: »

Is that guy actually a volunteer ? i.e. he doesn't get paid anything ?

Probably just gets expenses

finnharpsboy

i wouldnt have the nerve to be going cloud touching in that thing

BabysCoffee

Is that the music from "An officer and a gentleman"?

Pumpkinseeds

Yeah, what a great use of TV licence money, sure of course he needed an all expenses paid jolly to Miami to patronisingly explain the difference between weather and climate to the licence payers of Ireland, what a fecking joke

fryup

ah will ya shush

finnharpsboy

i prefer cloud touching up the old military road with the window down on the ford focus

BabysCoffee

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Yeah, what a great use of TV licence money, sure of course he needed an all expenses paid jolly to Miami to patronisingly explain the difference between weather and climate to the licence payers of Ireland, what a fecking joke

I'm finding it very entertaining!

Reckless Abandonment

Enjoyed that.. none of that "irelands extreme killers storms" ****e you'd get from tv3

HeidiHeidi

Thank the lord for these threads! Just back from holidays and had forgotten all about this - and just caught it on +1.

Thought it was really interesting - especially the farmer taking the daily readings. Reminded me of a time years ago that we were driving around Malin Head and passed the met station and went noseying around a bit. We practically got kidnapped by the fella working there, whom we suspected was a bit starved of company! He showed us all around, and we were gobsmacked at the low-tech nature of it all - basically jugs to collect rain and thermometers - just like that farmer in his field. Sometimes stuff really is just that basic.

I'm insanely jealous of him going cloudspotting in that plane - he sounded comically nervous, I thought the pilot might do a sneaky roll without saying . Although when it comes to it, haven't we all touched a cloud at some point, when they descend to our level instead of us having to go up to meet them?

Anyway, I thought it was great - very interesting to me as a sailor - and am looking forward to the next one.

Call me Al

I enjoyed it and it was very informative in basic and visual terms for people who know little about ocean currents and where some of our weather comes from.

Irish Steve

OK, some of the people here may pour scorn on the programme, (and remember it's a series), but to be fair, it's one of the better weather programmes that's been broadcast over the last while. It was informative, interesting, and accurate without being sensationalist, so unless you are a total weather nerd, it should have been a good watch.

I found it helpful, and interesting, I had to do weather and met as an exam subject for aviation licences, and a long time ago, I was a volunteer observer in the UK, and my wife who has no real interest in weather other than as a victim of it's effects also found it to have been an interesting watch, so that gives me the impression that the overall balance of the programme was pretty good, in that it held both of our attentions.

I learnt some new facts about the Gulf Stream, like I didn't know that the currents off Namibia were part of the same flow, and the time the water spends at low levels came as a surprise as well.

It made a good programme to watch having seen the recent BBC programs Cloud Lab, which was a lot more technical, but very interesting as well, how many of us knew that a small "fair weather" cumulus cloud weighs about 4 tonnes, a developed Cumulo Nimbus could be as much as 30,000 Tonnes, and the weight of water in the atmosphere at any time is only massive, I think the figure was 29 Billion Tonnes, or along those lines.

If the rest of the series is as good as the first programme tonight, they will be both interesting and enjoyable.

Rougies

RTE Player link
http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10312164/

vicwatson

is mise spartacus wrote: »

An hour long program about Irish weather
It's official, we are obsessed.

And two more parts to go

Penname

Really enjoyed the programme. It was very informative and as someone else said not the usual sensationalist tripe that is often shown. Loved David, the volunteer. Between his accent and passion for what he does, I could listen to him all day.

sunbabe08

Watched a bit of this morning & loved it :-):-) very fascinating stuff. Can't wait for more

PukkaStukka

I really enjoyed it and I have to say that John Creedon is excellent. He is someone I hold in very high regard for his love of music generally and last night was a display of what a good all-rounder he is. The structure was very good and content was simple and understandable for everyone both lay and enthusiast alike.

Highlight for me was a shot of slightly younger looking Evelyn Cusack with big 80's style hair. She looked the biz!

Layinghen

Really enjoyed the show. Thought John Creedon was great explaining things for someone like me who knows very little about why we have the weather that we do.

piuswal

John is obviously very good at assimilating information and passing it on; and that is meant as a big compliment.

Red Nissan

I tend to like John's shows, he brings a nit of not tooooo seriousness to subjects and is pleasant enough.

finnharpsboy

its on now

BabysCoffee

Aaagh forgot this was starting......have just clicked on now

finnharpsboy

not nearly as interesting as last weeks

BabysCoffee

That 1am conference call did not look fun

finnharpsboy

BabysCoffee wrote: »

That 1am conference call did not look fun

John's live weather forecast does though haha

Call me Al

finnharpsboy wrote: »

not nearly as interesting as last weeks

I thought the piece on the satellites that are in the sky was extremely interesting and informative.

Outkast_IRE

Good mix of bit of science/interviews and on location examples.

Solid program, interesting to watch whilst maintaining it at understandable level.

HeidiHeidi

I thought it was great again - despite the infuriating glitches on UPC's player that meant I had to stop and start it about 20 times :mad:

I especially enjoyed the Dublin Airport segment - I've always been fascinated by the inner workings of an airport and would LOVE to spend a day (or a year!) hanging around watching how it all works. Onsite weather forecasters and weather management are only a tiny part of the whole thing - but what a vital part!

Was also interested to hear the guy in Kerry saying that on balance he'd let nature take its course when the likes of the damage happened at Rossbeigh. I'm familiar with a beach in NW Donegal for the last 30-odd years, and it's gone from being unrelieved white plaster-smooth sand to being 95% rocks for a significant portion of its length, and back again, I've lost count how many times now. I never knew if it was that the sand got sucked out, or the rocks got thrown up. I now guess it was that the sand got washed away. All seems to be fairly cyclical though - so while it may be hard on the families/farms etc that are left exposed, I'm not sure that you can fight nature and stop the march of the sea

Fascinating programme, I'm well impressed with it so far.

vicwatson

Red Nissan

FAIL big time.

MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE.

Poor man is disillusion.

I can see by his body language he is not comfortable with this line, he is aware of climate, weather, climate change and global warming, and has got confused.

finnharpsboy

its starting now in two minutes with creedon giving a live forecast

finnharpsboy

haha this should be good

finnharpsboy

good man John

HeidiHeidi

Just tuning in now..... the paper says this is last in series, but I thought it was a 4-parter?

finnharpsboy

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Just tuning in now..... the paper says this is last in series, but I thought it was a 4-parter?

so did i

piuswal

Pretty good presentation.

Interesting though that RTE only showed Nuala Carey explaining the mechanics of the actual presentation; no mention at all of where/how she (and John) got the actual forecast information.

Red Nissan

I did like his last comment about Taxing Climate Change.

HeidiHeidi

piuswal wrote: »

Pretty good presentation.

Interesting though that RTE only showed Nuala Carey explaining the mechanics of the actual presentation; no mention at all of where/how she (and John) got the actual forecast information.

That was covered earlier by Evelyn Cusack at the start of the programme.

Not in any detail, mind you - which I would have been very interested to see. Maybe that's for the next series. If you're reading this John......

I remember years ago seeing a BBC/UTV programme where people swapped jobs, and a weather forecaster/presenter from UTV (don't know her name but you'd definitely know her) swapped with an RSPCA officer. They showed a lot of the mechanics of putting the weather forecast together and it was fascinating. (They also showed a LOT of the weather forecaster squealing in terror at the animals she had to deal with )

Red Nissan

piuswal wrote: »

no mention at all of where/how she (and John) got the actual forecast information.

Evelyn showed him the computers and the maps that he was to extrapolate his forecast from, I don't have time to take all that in he said.