Storm Lorenzo Chat Thread.

kilkenny31

easypazz wrote: »

Absolutely. They were correct to take precautions in the usual known flood areas like Lahinch and Salthill. Yes cancel ferries to the Aran Islands.

But dishing out a countywide alert is a flawed system.

Absolutely. Below is an example of a weather warning in Northern Ireland.Its not done by county but a yellow blob covering the area expected to be effected.
Would have worked better here the last few days. Have a orange blob right down the coast extending out into the sea a bit with yellow extending further inland.




Also with the use of postcodes etc it should be possible for someone to search their postcode and see which warning category they fall into.
There could also be a system on met.ie where you could register your phone to your postcode and get a text alert.
I know the weather is hard to predict but people here done a pretty good job.
I think RTE need a serious review of how they handled this. Almost tabloid type reporting from George Lee.

Danzy

Lots of conspiracy talk, plots and describing this to an agenda.

People talking it up in a different way.

Mantis Toboggan

Not sure what all the hype was about, a bit of wind and rain.

I'm sure climate change is responsible, wait until we get the tax hikes in the budget.

Kamili

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Carlow weather fella (waves!) was on Pat Kenny's programme speaking sense. It hadn't occurred to me that there is no official flood warning system in place here - his views that local weather impact rather than catchall "yellow/orange/red" warnings over a swath of land make more sense is also sound.

Heard it too, great sensible piece from Villian!

TheRiverman

We had windy days during the fine weather this Summer which was a strong as what we got last night and this morning here in the Midlands,no yellow warning then.Also sand carried in strong southerly winds from North Africa,didn't see George Lee wiping it off his glasses then.

BarryD2

kilkenny31 wrote: »

I know the weather is hard to predict but people here done a pretty good job.

Met Eireann here do a good job on the whole but my main issue with them is that they've dumbed down the public advice they dispense. They should get rid of these Yellow warnings forthwith as they just describe pretty normal weather that we're all used to - take in the deckchairs, bring a raincoat etc etc.

If they're going to have sweeping colour code warnings, they should limit them to weather events that may cause more serious disruption: certainly the Red and maybe the Orange.

HeidiHeidi

CosmicFool wrote: »

It clearly states Technical discussion only in the thread title.

Try reading the thread title again.

_feedback_

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Try reading the thread title again.

I think the mods must have moved that post pretty sure it was in the technical thread earlier!

All calm here in East Mayo for the past couple of hours

PauloMN

Not sure what the actual impact was on the west coast, but certainly where I was (Meath), this was not a yellow event. Had we not been bombarded with Lorenzo hype the past week, last night would just have gone down as a wet and windy night, like loads of autumn/winter evenings.

The media are much more to blame than Met Eireann tbh for the ridiculous hype, but maybe ME need to revisit the warnings system and up the thresholds a bit. Like a yellow warning has people thinking "maybe I need to leave work early" etc., when there was absolutely zero impact on travel in the Dublin/Meath region anyway.

Bacchus

_feedback_ wrote: »

I think the mods must have moved that post pretty sure it was in the technical thread earlier!

You're not crazy... it was.

Stevieluvsye

What i did laugh at this morning was two girls in my office who said

"My god that's a really bad storm, they should let us go down"

It was raining out

km79

PauloMN wrote: »

Not sure what the actual impact was on the west coast, but certainly where I was (Meath), this was not a yellow event. Had we not been bombarded with Lorenzo hype the past week, last night would just have gone down as a wet and windy night, like loads of autumn/winter evenings.

The media are much more to blame than Met Eireann tbh for the ridiculous hype, but maybe ME need to revisit the warnings system and up the thresholds a bit. Like a yellow warning has people thinking "maybe I need to leave work early" etc., when there was absolutely zero impact on travel in the Dublin/Meath region anyway.

If people think a yellow warning warrants leaving work early they need to read up on the warnings

Zeek12

km79 wrote: »

If people think a yellow warning warrants leaving work early they need to read up on the warnings

That’s not the point.
The OP makes a good suggestion here. If a yellow warning is not even noteworthy enough for us to see any real change from usual weather - why have this warning level at all?

It doesn’t serve much purpose and just leads to confusion.

joeysoap

I know by the garden that it rained a lot last night. I know it won’t last - but it’s like a good July day here now. Warm and Sunny. Dundalk.

the.red.baron

The yellow warning means it's pissing down

Hey now

the.red.baron

the.red.baron wrote: »

The yellow warning means it's pissing down

Hey now

If it's yellow, let it mellow

Roger_007

Roger_007 wrote: »

Greta would be proud of you.:)

To be honest with you, I cycle out of laziness.

It is either walk 10 minutes to a bus stop, be on the bus for 20 minutes, then walk 15 minutes to work, or get up 25 minutes later and cycle to work in 20 minutes.

km79

Zeek12 wrote: »

That’s not the point.
The OP makes a good suggestion here. If a yellow warning is not even noteworthy enough for us to see any real change from usual weather - why have this warning level at all?

It doesn’t serve much purpose and just leads to confusion.

Yellow
Not unusual weather
Localized danger

So people would be aware of possible flash floods , fallen branches etc
Might make them think twice when out driving etc

I just spotted the OP said Dublin/Meath area
That’s all that matters sure
Didn’t affect the rest of the country at all............

Both threads have been an absolute trollfest as usual
We had one poster in the space of 6 hours in Galway region saying
It was scandalous from forecasters due to no wind
Then
Ferocious winds
Then
A complete non event

Look forward to them crawling back under their bridges

(This is not aimed at you or OP )

kingshankly

People blaming hype from media yet arnt we all guilty with over 200 pages on here about a windy wet day in October

teednab-el

Virgin media should realise how silly they were yesterday having reporters around the country saying how bad the storm was. Not a leaf fell off a tree here in kerry. Won't be taking it seriously any more.

uck51js9zml2yt

Windy here in North Kerry last night. No damage as everything was away.

Gusts of 48 knots looking at windy.com.

Still a stiff breeze this morning

CosmicFool

km79 wrote: »

Yellow
Not unusual weather
Localized danger

So people would be aware of possible flash floods , fallen branches etc
Might make them think twice when out driving etc

I just spotted the OP said Dublin/Meath area
That’s all that matters sure
Didn’t affect the rest of the country at all............

Both threads have been an absolute trollfest as usual
We had one poster in the space of 6 hours in Galway region saying
It was scandalous from forecasters due to no wind
Then
Ferocious winds
Then
A complete non event

Look forward to them crawling back under their bridges

(This is not aimed at you or OP )

Thankfully the mods have cleaned up the technical discussion thread

PauloMN

km79 wrote: »

If people think a yellow warning warrants leaving work early they need to read up on the warnings

From Met.ie:

STATUS YELLOW
Weather that does not pose a threat to the general population but is potentially dangerous on a localised scale.

Be aware about meteorological conditions and check if you are exposed to danger by nature of your activity or your specific location. Do not take any avoidable risks

"Potentially dangerous", "Do not take any avoidable risks". People read that and think they'd best head off home early, esp if their journey is a long one. The point is that for the region I was in with a yellow warning, it was a normal autumn evening - there was no potential danger whatsoever and not even any inconvenience! Nothing I saw/read about in Leinster warranted a yellow warning. Can't speak for elsewhere.

There were more incidents on Tuesday in Dublin with trees down and flights cancelled tbh, and there were no warnings that day.

Zeek12 wrote: »

That’s not the point.
The OP makes a good suggestion here. If a yellow warning is not even noteworthy enough for us to see any real change from usual weather - why have this warning level at all?

It doesn’t serve much purpose and just leads to confusion.

Spot on.

yop

Hit us hard for around 5 hours, travelling from Galway late last night it was windy, lots of leaves, lots of surface water, not ideal.
No harm issuing the warning as it made people aware to take caution. It still knocked out the power.

Social media was full of people in certain parts of Ireland whinging about it been a non event etc, but the orange warning wasn't country wide. Just a chance to moan. Imagine if someone was killed due to flying debris or hitting a pile of leaves or flash flood?
Think people just need to relax.

easypazz

yop wrote: »

Hit us hard for around 5 hours, travelling from Galway late last night it was windy, lots of leaves, lots of surface water, not ideal.
No harm issuing the warning as it made people aware to take caution. It still knocked out the power.

Social media was full of people in certain parts of Ireland whinging about it been a non event etc, but the orange warning wasn't country wide. Just a chance to moan. Imagine if someone was killed due to flying debris or hitting a pile of leaves or flash flood?
Think people just need to relax.

Nobody said it was. But it didn't hit the orange areas either seems to be the consensus.

4-5000 people without electricity due to the "storm" and 2 trees down in Kerry ! That's the height of the damage this morning according to Newstalk.
When Teresa Mannion gets wheeled out by RTE with wild hair blowing to screech her weather report from Galway its just pathethic. All jokes about "unnecessary journeys" and "bread" aren't even funny anymore. This so called hurricane took up an entire week of headline news both on TV and newspapers. We are a nation of snowflakes. When I was a child this was called Autumn weather.

irishgeo

easypazz wrote: »

Nobody said it was. But it didn't hit the orange areas either seems to be the consensus.

it hit parts of the orange areas. just because it didnt hit your back garden doesnt mean it didnt go through your area.


It hit in the middle of the night, the majority of the country was in bed so how can they prove it didnt hit them?

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

4-5000 people without electricity due to the "storm" and 2 trees down in Kerry ! That's the height of the damage this morning according to Newstalk.
When Teresa Mannion gets wheeled out by RTE with wild hair blowing to screech her weather report from Galway its just pathethic. All jokes about "unnecessary journeys" and "bread" aren't even funny anymore. This so called hurricane took up an entire week of headline news both on TV and newspapers. We are a nation of snowflakes. When I was a child this was called Autumn weather.

Everything about her in that report looked so staged. I think someone poured water over her head just for effect.

Oasis1974

Teresa Mannion have her wellys on sure sign this storm means business?

The warnings are a decent system.

ME said it would be yellow for most of the country and it probably just about was. Some wind and rain but nothing too extreme.

It was the media that made out that it was doomsday.

The reports didn’t match the warnings at all.