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Storm Lorenzo Chat Thread.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,835 ✭✭✭dmc17


    gmisk wrote: »
    Poor Teresa give her something with a hood

    That would ruin the dramatic look


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    In Connemara, went for a short walk about 30 mins ago. It is getting very wet but the wind isn't bad at all. Breezy yes.

    The Prom did not look bad at all on the TV. I saw people swimming there at 5:30pm but it was perfectly safe for regulars. Granted Lorenzo was still way off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,766 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    It's just slightly embarrassing watching the news try to hype it up.

    Flights still working out of shannon, can't be that windy so.

    And Gerry Murphy looked embarrassed trying to make it sound dangerous. Had to admit that outside of West coast the rest of us will be grand.

    You'd think we were on the Bahamas getting battered by a hurricane, instead it's a bit windy but if you've hyped this for 2 days you have to see it through.

    I would like to see ME stand up to the media and play it down if it needs to be.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    appledrop wrote: »
    Ffs kite surfer rescued. Seriously I'd leave them there.

    Putting other people at risk because of their stupidity.


    Their argument is that the people that rescue them are funded by 'donations and legacies'.:rolleyes::rolleyes: i kid you not.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 271 ✭✭lleti


    The whole warnings thing was a joke. Yellow warnings for conditions that happen constantly.

    I heard Boxer Moran on the radio defending the warnings on about how "3 people died last year."

    Idiot doesn't realise Ophelia was two years ago.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    Epic fail for RTE. 5 reporters at 6pm, 4 reratporters at 9pm and primetime coming up from lahinch.

    Nothing at all to report except one cancelled flight and a missing windsurfer found ok.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    There is no storm at all. The news people and RTÉ are deliberately lying to us to boost ratings. Their footage is from foreign places that get storms like New Orleans and Indonesia. Dublin is mild and clear blue skies. I won’t ever fall for this storm warning again. Still tho, glad I was able to use it as an excuse to ‘work’ from home today and tomorrow.

    Dublin is not on the West Coast!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,030 ✭✭✭jackboy


    dmc17 wrote: »
    That would ruin the dramatic look

    She is still holding back a little. She has all the trash talk but none of the emotion that she is famous for.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    pad199207 wrote: »
    RTE News is painful to watch.

    It's more than painful, it's embarrassing. I don't know why RTE don't just admit that this 'storm' is not as bad as was forecast and just stand down their roving reporters. You would feel sorry for reporters trying to make a big deal of something that obviously isn't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭UsBus


    They are doing a prime time live next on the storm. Hype it as much as possible, drive ratings and the climate agenda. Pathetic


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    Mad they way we label everything nowadays this would have been a windy day years ago now we have over 160 pages (2threads) about a windy day 🙈🙈Everything is hyped to the last nowadays I suppose with social media and forums ramps everything up. Us Irish do love a good chat about the weather


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭mojesius


    My favourite part was the shot of yer man sandbagging the ATM in Galway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,729 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    UsBus wrote: »
    They are doing a prime time live next on the storm. Hype it as much as possible, drive ratings and the climate agenda. Pathetic

    it is getting ridiculous now, its like they cant give it up

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,835 ✭✭✭dmc17


    mojesius wrote: »
    My favourite part was the shot of yer man sandbagging the ATM in Galway

    Won't somebody think of the money!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭cyclops999


    Look up when landfall is first and come back

    Yup Gerry basically confirmed damp squib for everyone away from the West coast


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 343 ✭✭Wtf ?


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    It's more than painful, it's embarrassing. I don't know why RTE don't just admit that this 'storm' is not as bad as was forecast and just stand down their roving reporters. You would feel sorry for reporters trying to make a big deal of something that obviously isn't.
    Primetime ''Storm'' special after the news. It's like turning up for a gig knowing it's been cancelled !:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Drifter50


    All joking asides, no one will ever take these warnings of Armageddon seriously ever again.
    Met Eireann need to stand up to the slavering media and forecast factually and without emotion.
    RTE are just simply embarassing. Show a Canadian or a Norwegian this stuff and they would laugh at us


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,632 ✭✭✭✭Zeek12


    My experience over the years with the craze around weather warnings is that when met eireann and particularly the press go into overdrive like they are doing now in reality the impact is never that bad however it’s the times when you don’t have any advance warning or hear anything out of the ordinary from the authorities that you get caught out and after you think how the hell did they not have an advance warning for that weather!!

    Quite true.

    Storm Hannah in April received relatively little attention, and whatever media coverage/warnings it got came quite late.
    But that actually ended up being a Red alert for some counties. A lot of structural damage was done in Clare - but with little warning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,393 ✭✭✭JanuarySnowstor


    Disgraceful performance from Rte and not much better from Met Eireann. I have never seen the likes of it in over 40 years of watching TV. ..I mean why don't Met Eireann call a halt and say the storm didn't happen. For 3 or 4 days this storm looked like it wasn't going to happen.
    As for George Lee I used to respect his opinion on the economy now not so sure. Was he ramping up the recession too?!
    Do the decent thing Met Eireann and tell Rte it's not happening


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


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    UsBus wrote: »
    They are doing a prime time live next on the storm. Hype it as much as possible, drive ratings and the climate agenda. Pathetic

    They might get a bit lucky with primetime, its just after high tide so they might get some money shots of breaking eaves behind them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭buried


    Was a far worse day last Monday. At least its warm this evening.

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    cyclops999 wrote: »
    Yup Gerry basically confirmed damp squib for everyone away from the West coast

    And at that with high tide now passed there wont be much of interest there either other than high seas and strongish winds.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Very few ESB outages. 2 in Mayo but only around 100 people affected.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,713 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    Pheonix10 wrote: »
    Is anything happening in Dublin? Seems like absolutely nothing different than a usual Thursday.

    People whining its not windy.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 343 ✭✭Wtf ?


    George Lee doing some serious backtracking there, ''It's slowed down'' lol !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭LastLagoon


    TIME TO DISBAND MET ÉIREANN


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,753 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Ten Pin wrote: »
    VM news headline at 5:30 was that it was that the storm was "intensifying" as if armegeddon was on the way.

    There was a reporter in Lahinch and Colette Fitzpatrick said "you're in the eye of the storm there".

    Whatever about the hype, they're not even being factually correct.

    Seems they're all on some audition for a Bond movie or else a job as a govt spin doctor.

    Saw that. Utterly laughable. The best was some girl down in Ballybunion with her hair barely fluttering in a breeze.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    mojesius wrote: »
    My favourite part was the shot of yer man sandbagging the ATM in Galway

    Well you don't want the person in the ATM that puts the money through to you getting wet. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    Wtf ? wrote: »
    George Lee doing some serious backtracking there, ''It's slowed down'' lol !

    He seemed to imply the heavy rain might bring down trees.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Jeff2 wrote: »
    Well you don't want the person in the ATM that puts the money through to you getting wet. :)



    Nothing angrier than a wet midget


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