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Storm Lorenzo Chat Thread.

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    #1412
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    The top news item at 8 am is that there is no news. No major incidents, flights and trains running as normal. Just 4000 withoutn power George has gone into hiding.

    Still, it is fairly muck here in Celbridge. Steady rain and just breezy enough to make difficult to stay dry.


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    #1413
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,425 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    RTÉ journalist reporting that a “couple of twigs” on the roads in county Clare !!


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    #1414
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,850 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Gaoth Laidir wrote: »
    The top news item at 8 am is that there is no news. No major incidents, flights and trains running as normal. Just 4000 withoutn power George has gone into hiding.

    Reports coming in of some twigs down in Clare! :P

    Storm centre only now just ashore in/around Sligo.


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    #1415
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    So I’m up now, have all the door and windows boarded over....we are all gathered in the most central room in house.....we slept here all night on floor so my back is broke

    When is it safe to come out? This is my 5th day off work


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    #1416
    d'Oracle
    Registered Users Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭d'Oracle


    Widdershins wrote: »
    I think they just don't know definitively which way it will go. They have to inform the public of the possibilities. Some people then hear only the dramatic parts and ignore the other possibilities.

    That's pretty much it, like.


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    #1417
    lleti
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 271 ✭✭lleti


    What a joke from all involved. No warnings should have been sent for the east of the country. No worse than a normal winters night.

    Not once did they say the midlands/east would not be affected. All headlines and news reports and M.E comments should have lead with "west coast", not "countrywide warnings for storm lorenzo".


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    #1418
    lleti
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 271 ✭✭lleti


    RTE know that if carbon taxes are increased there'll be more tax money in the pot they can claim.


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    #1419
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,850 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    lleti wrote: »
    No warnings should have been sent for the east of the country.

    There were no storm warnings for the east coast of the country!!!
    lleti wrote: »
    Not once did they say the midlands/east would not be affected. All headlines and news reports and M.E comments should have lead with "west coast", not "countrywide warnings for storm lorenzo".

    They did!!!

    Problem is people can't or don't want to read!!!


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    #1420
    lleti
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 271 ✭✭lleti


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    There were NO warnings for the east coast of the country!!!

    There was a yellow warning yesterday up to 6pm.

    And even if there wasn't, why would they lead with headlines like "country bracing for impact of storm Lorenzo2?


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    #1421
    lleti
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 271 ✭✭lleti


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    There were NO warnings for the east coast of the country!!!



    They did!!!

    Problem is people can't or don't want to read!!!

    And give over, if you can't trust your state broadcaster who can you trust?


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    #1422
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,680 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    Can we quit bashing M.E? They did an excellent job forecasting this. It’s not like they made the entire country Orange they made 6 counties and lowered it to 5 and then got rid of 3 counties from the late night warnings over all. They did a great job with this. Dublin was yellow, not orange or red. Maybe next time try to look at the actual forecasts instead of just basing everything on tabloids like Dublin live. RTÉ were very bad in this storm and tbh it should be looked into.


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    #1423
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    For the record I’m not criticizing met Eireann.

    Facebook and media on the other hand. Trump is right about this fake news trend.

    The media needs censoring for fake news. If you publish fake news or hype you should have to mention it at the top of the article, like an advertisement.

    I was going to get the first bus this morning and would have been late over this hype if I wasn’t a hardy tough guy with an attitude.

    Some people get in trouble in work for being late. I’m sure all over Dublin there is lads turning up for work an hour late because of this hype.

    Dublin live and radio nova should be fined. Facebook should take people’s likes or shares or whatever off people who publish bull**** and fake videos of the police arresting scrotes with a headline that claims he was just in the library renting a book and the police came in and arrested him.


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    #1424
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,425 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    George Lee should be stood down from reporting on climate and weather.

    He has lost whatever credibility he ever had on this over the Last week.


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    #1425
    lleti
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 271 ✭✭lleti


    SleetAndSnow wrote: »
    Can we quit bashing M.E? They did an excellent job forecasting this. It’s not like they made the entire country Orange they made 6 counties and lowered it to 5 and then got rid of 3 counties from the late night warnings over all. They did a great job with this. Dublin was yellow, not orange or red. Maybe next time try to look at the actual forecasts instead of just basing everything on tabloids like Dublin live. RTÉ were very bad in this storm and tbh it should be looked into.

    Dublin should not have been anything.

    It was a normal winters night.


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    #1426
    Simmer down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭Simmer down


    pburns wrote: »
    Why does everything about weather (and by extension climate) have to be so sensensationalist these days?

    Carbon Tax agenda/scam would be my answer.


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    #1427
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,342 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    George Lee should be stood down from reporting on climate and weather.

    He has lost whatever credibility he ever had on this over the Last week.
    stood down completely hes like that with everything

    My weather

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



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    #1428
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,680 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    lleti wrote: »
    Dublin should not have been anything.

    It was a normal winters night.

    And If you were in ME and every model you looked at showed Dublin getting yellow level winds at least, would you say “era no i won’t give a warning even though everything is showing that I should”? They have obligations. If the path changes it changes but they went off guidance as they are supposed to do

    It was clearly showing yellow level speeds for Dublin until the end and maybe they didn’t happen but cork Waterford and tipp got totally removed from the warnings at 6 so they were actively looking at the models .


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    #1429
    sjb25
    Registered Users Posts: 3,382 ✭✭✭sjb25


    Flooding this morning


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    #1430
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    And every headline had caused by global warming at the end of it.


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    #1431
    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,414 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    Villain wrote: »
    They need to move to impact based system used in the UK!

    https://twitter.com/CarlowWeather/status/1180008921106386944?s=20

    One station is not widespread


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    #1432
    enricoh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,873 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    RTÉ journalist reporting that a “couple of twigs” on the roads in county Clare !!

    Jesus, snowflake generation!


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    #1433
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    Gaoth Laidir wrote: »
    The top news item at 8 am is that there is no news. No major incidents, flights and trains running as normal. Just 4000 withoutn power George has gone into hiding.

    Still, it is fairly muck here in Celbridge. Steady rain and just breezy enough to make difficult to stay dry.

    I heard George got a plane out of here given the danger.


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    #1434
    HBC08
    Registered Users Posts: 3,398 ✭✭✭HBC08


    I have no problem with ME conduct all week,they gave accurate data and were pretty much on the ball.I have no problem with Rte basing their 6 o clock news around this and having reporters live all over the country.
    However once it became clear that this wasnt going to be a major weather event worthy of this kind of coverage then the ridiculous charade began. Instead of reporting accurately on this we had the embarrassing scenes on the 9 o clock news of reporters around the country shouting into the camera and telling us about "lock down" etc as waves lapped about behind them. What was the point of this bizarre effort? did they think people wouldnt notice?
    I lived abroad during the tiger years so only have a vague idea who George Lee is.We need more of him on the telly though,that was the most ive belly laughed at an rte programme in decades!


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    #1435
    The high horse brigade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭The high horse brigade


    So where are these thousands without power the RTE website is reporting?


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    #1436
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    lleti wrote: »
    And give over, if you can't trust your state broadcaster who can you trust?

    That's the part I've the biggest problem with. We all know the papers love to make a meal of stuff. But jesus our national broadcaster was a disgrace. Maybe they are trying to be more like Fox news..


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    #1437
    Comhrá
    Registered Users Posts: 4,768 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    munsterlegend wrote: »
    I heard George got a plane out of here given the danger.

    Rumour has it he's applied for a post with the National Hurricane Center.


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    #1438
    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Widdershins wrote: »
    I think they just don't know definitively which way it will go. They have to inform the public of the possibilities. Some people then hear only the dramatic parts and ignore the other possibilities.

    Yes, and there was ample time for RTÉ to dampen the hyperbole once it was clear the storm was weaker than anticipated. Instead they went about needlessly frightening people with ill-informed ravings about "hurricanes". George Lee was the biggest offender of them all, and rightly faces ridicule in the court of public opinion.


    I can't comment on RTE but I think met Eireann could be spared criticism this time


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    #1439
    Villain
    Registered Users Posts: 15,944 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    irishgeo wrote: »
    One station is not widespread

    Yes but criteria based system is messy in my opinion.


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    #1440
    Allinall
    Registered Users Posts: 6,613 ✭✭✭Allinall


    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    So where are these thousands without power the RTE website is reporting?

    https://www.esb.ie/esb-networks/powercheck/


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    #1441
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    So where are these thousands without power the RTE website is reporting?

    Try here chief

    https://www.esb.ie/esb-networks/powercheck/


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