Why do the tan weather reports not show the weather in ROI

veryangryman

I mean you can't show the North without us being there beside it? Is it a passive aggressive slight that we might get some information. When and how did this begin?

veryangryman

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EmmetSpiceland

It’s a different country.

branie2

We're (ROI) not part of the UK anymore

IngazZagni

Sky News show and mention areas in ROI.

Ultimately though we don't pay the license fee for the BBC and simply aren't the target audience for them.

pjohnson

Why is Fabio doing the weather?

tdf7187

RTE weather reports dont show tan weather.

That said, props on your use of the word tan. Its probably next on the politically correct/West Brit brigade's hitlist. **** them and the horse they rode in on.

Wanderer78

A tan, in Irish weather, you must be fcuking joking!

EmmetSpiceland

tdf7187 wrote: »

RTE weather reports dont show tan weather.

Do they give a UV level, at least? Was at 4 today, moderate.

Tyrone212

veryangryman wrote: »

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That wig.

The RTÉ weather is strange, they always begin with what has already happened today! why? everyone knows what the weather was, they then skip forward a few days and then try explain what is happening tomorrow,

Wanderer78

Jakub Zytecki wrote:

The RTÉ weather is strange, they always begin with what has already happened today! why? everyone knows what the weather was, they then skip forward a few days and then try explain what is happening tomorrow,

We like alcohol, but sometimes it causes you to miss stuff, such as the weather

odyssey06

North of the wall it's winter all year round, dragons and ice zombies.
And that's before you get to the warlike politics.

We did build the wall like I instructed, to keep the ******* out, right?

Quantum Erasure

veryangryman wrote: »

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Thought you meant this:

wandererz

It's not needed. Nobody from the UK travels to the ROI, so they have no need knowing the weather here.

Sure, why know the weather of some place "just for the craic".

Pauliedragon

Jakub Zytecki wrote: »

The RTÉ weather is strange, they always begin with what has already happened today! why? everyone knows what the weather was, they then skip forward a few days and then try explain what is happening tomorrow,

You've read my mind. I've been saying this for years. Someone at RTE who's in charge of the weather needs to get a dictionary and look up what the word forecast means.

Hamsterchops

veryangryman wrote: »

I Why do the tan weather reports not show the weather in ROI?

Probable because of the lack of pigmentation in the Irish skin. We as a race are very pale, many Irish people also have red hair & freckles, so it's not good to be out on the sun too much. Skin cancer rates are quite high here to so best to get your tan from a bottle.

branie2

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Thought you meant this:

You don't see ceefax these days

Spain doesn't show Portugal, France or gibraltar. They don't show Spain. The us excludes Canada and Mexico. Why would they show it?

I get the impression that if the "tans" did show our weather you would be giving out about that too.

Montage of Feck

Im always disappointed when RTE doesn't show the weather for Transnistria. Oblvious pro Moldovan bias.

Zaph

Apart from the browning of the skin that would rarely occur in Irish weather, wtf is a tan?

I'm assuming that the BBC get their weather from the Met Office in the UK, who would not be responsible for forecasting in Ireland, which is why it's not included. But complaining about another country's broadcaster not mentioning weather in your country has to go down as one of the more baffling complaints I've ever seen in AH, which is some achievement.

Ger Roe

Both territories have separate national weather forecast organisations. I am sure the BBC and ITV have data for Ireland, but it is not their responsibility to forecast for us. Imagine the confusion if there was a difference in forecasts for the same area, from two different organisations.

I once installed a telephone conference system in the UK Met Office HQ that was used to co-ordinate weather forecasts across the different UK regions, from the TV reports perspective. Several times a day, before TV news forecasts, all the regions would get together on the conference and reveal what they were going to say - the idea was to ensure that the forecaster in Tyne Tees (Newcastle) wasn't going to mention heavy showers heading further north, while the STV (Scotland) forecaster was going to announce bright spells coming up from the south. They would agree a coordinated national forecast across all regions with the senior met officer on duty there to make a decision if agreement could not be reached.

It would be the same for international forecasting, if there are two separate organisations reporting on the same area, there would be an extra layer of discussion required to make sure both forecasts agreed.

Mullaghteelin

veryangryman wrote: »

I mean you can't show the North without us being there beside it? Is it a passive aggressive slight that we might get some information. When and how did this begin?

You are only noticing this now?
I remember asking my mam about this when I was about 4, circa 1986.


The maps on the BBC UK forecast serve us pretty well these days though.

Ger Roe

Ger Roe wrote: »

Both territories have separate national weather forecast organisations. I am sure the BBC and ITV have data for Ireland, but it is not their responsibility to forecast for us. Imagine the confusion if there was a difference in forecasts for the same area, from two different organisations.

I once installed a telephone conference system in the UK Met Office HQ that was used to co-ordinate weather forecasts across the different UK regions, from the TV reports perspective. Several times a day, before TV news forecasts, all the regions would get together on the conference and reveal what they were going to say - the idea was to ensure that the forecaster in Tyne Tees (Newcastle) wasn't going to mention heavy showers heading further north, while the STV (Scotland) forecaster was going to announce bright spells coming up from the south. They would agree a coordinated national forecast across all regions with the senior met officer on duty there to make a decision if agreement could not be reached.

It would be the same for international forecasting, if there are two separate organisations reporting on the same area, there would be an extra layer of discussion required to make sure both forecasts agreed.

The us stations all have their own people doing their own thing. It's a competition isn't it? Having the best weatherman

Hyperbollix

It makes perfect sense. It probably started out with the notion it's pointless showing "Paddy weather" when they're not in the UK anymore and no one knows much or gives half a shít about the place anyway.

In latter years this has transformed into assorted luvies at the British met / tv channels thinking it would be hugely inappropriate and political insensitive to give a forecast for "Eire" since it is now an independent nation.

looksee

They used to show RoI on UK weather and some RoI people made a huge fuss that they were 'claiming' Ireland and Ireland was independent and similar stuff. So they stopped.

looksee

looksee wrote: »

They used to show RoI on UK weather and some RoI people made a huge fuss that they were 'claiming' Ireland and Ireland was independent and similar stuff. So they stopped.

Source?

I mean it could be true but seems odd.

I remember reading that the BBC’s weather forecast (or some other U.K. channel) used to cut of the ROI, on the map. Basically they sunk us.

DeanAustin

On a related note, it makes me laugh when I see RTE showing the weather in Australia.

Why? Even if you decided there and then to book a flight to Sydney for the next morning, you'd still miss what they're forecasting by the time you got there.

Cabaal

veryangryman wrote: »

I mean you can't show the North without us being there beside it? Is it a passive aggressive slight that we might get some information. When and how did this begin?

sigh
tans, really?
:rolleyes:

They can't give the weather in Jersey without showing a part of France, it doesn't mean they do French weather reports either.

GreeBo

veryangryman wrote: »

I mean you can't show the North without us being there beside it? Is it a passive aggressive slight that we might get some information. When and how did this begin?

Is it because they don't like some people referring to them as tans?

Bobblehats

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Thought you meant this:

NI looks like something I blew chunks out of in Space Invaders

wandererz

wandererz wrote: »

It's not needed. Nobody from the UK travels to the ROI, so they have no need knowing the weather here.

Sure, why know the weather of some place "just for the craic".

Literally, nobody, huh?

I’d like to check that statement. Give me a moment.

wandererz

fvp4 wrote: »

Literally, nobody, huh?

I’d like to check that statement. Give me a moment.

??
Sarcasm radar needs activation.

Ted_YNWA

Let's take a rain check on this not so subtle sectarianism.