Kristopherus wrote: » Here you go. From the met.ie website "Southerly winds will reach gale force early tonight on Irish coastal waters from Valentia to Slyne Head to Malin Head, and from Malin Head to Howth Head to Carnsore Point and for the Irish Sea tomorrow morning."
fin12 wrote: » Fairly windy here tonight in Kerry, didn’t see or hear any warnings.
Cork Boy 53 wrote: » You do know that Met Eireann meteorologists are not RTE employees?
jackboy wrote: » George lee showed himself to be a trash journalist who makes entertainment a priority over truthful reporting. He should not be let report on the weather again. Rte have plenty good meteorologists who could do those segments.
Weltsmertz wrote: » How about. *There's a chance there might be a bit of rain" instead of WARNING WARNING YELLOW ALERT
is_that_so wrote: » Which suggests that the warnings themselves do not clearly communicate what they are intended for. I think they need to fine-tune them, especially the lowest one.
Weltsmertz wrote: » Met Eireann issued "warnings". Many people are confused and differentiate between different colours. If they wanted to avoid scare mongering there is an easy enough solution. Get rid of warnings for normal weather.
Widdershins wrote: » It makes sense to ignore media coverage after this farce but If still follow met eireann's forecasts and warnings-which were proportionate and accurate. It seems like people barely differentiate between the hype on news stations and what met Eireann actually said.
teednab-el wrote: » Storm in a teacup Lorenzo was.
NIMAN wrote: » I'd say they were praying for a bad storm so they could say afterwards, "what about our great reporting of it, now you know we deserve that extra e50mill we're looking for". In hindsight, it looks like they sent loads of reporters and crews out all over the country at great expense, and end up looking more like money wasters than they ever did.
iamwhoiam wrote: » Well I remember the days when we got no warnings red or yellow or any other colour . We had to look out the window to know it was stormy and when the neighbours patio table landed in our garden we knew it was fierce!
[Deleted User] wrote: » Two things happened that allowed the sensationalism to take over - switching from mph to kph & introduction of the colour-coded warning systems. Culminating in RTÉ fuelling a near hysteria on Thursday, dispatching numerous reporters to breezy shores at considerable expense. You'll end up with a "boy who cried wolf" scenario when people inevitably start ignoring the daft hyperbole. With lives possibly endangered, and the same irresponsible media deflecting all responsibility to Met Éireann. Rinse and repeat.
Jemma Rough Coin wrote: » Last storm my bench outside got knocked backwards. This time an old fence panel fell over.
Kamili wrote: » I can't understand why they went all out on this, when they're screaming about being broke and not getting enough licence fees etc. It was actually embarrassing.
lleti wrote: » Yep true. Weather today was worse than during the week, good job I wasn't driving or it would be dangerous but not a weather warning in sight! I drove home this evening + roads were very dangerous. The main road to Donabate/ Lusk had very bad flooding in certain lanes. I slowed down in my lane but idiot beside flew through it + so much water thrown up on my windscreen for 2/3 sec I couldn't see out. That could easily cause an accident. Why wasn't there weather warning about today. It's a joke.
Deleted User wrote: » Just a little ‘aside’ , has anyone ever heard a more doom laden voice than George Lee ? He’d make you think you were going to your own funeral . Wonder does he speak to his missus like that ?
ZX7R wrote: » [Deleted User] wrote: » I thought ME were fairly spot on with the forecasts. Obviously they have to play it a bit on the safety first side, they’d be criticized badly if they didn’t. But most of the country had a yellow warning and that was just about justified. Some windier than normal weather but nothing major. And then orange for coastal areas were apparently it was a good bit worse. What’s baffling is why the media went all out predicting a doomsday storm when that was never forecast. The national broadcaster at least should have a duty to give accurate news reports. Irish media should be ashamed of themselves,due to rte dropping in numbers viewing they are trying to attract younger audience so there basing there news feed on American trash news sites. Plus a number of members not ALL on here who have Facebook pages also feed the ignorance of the uneducated. Posting there own weather warnings since last Monday and those warnings based on extreme charts at the time even using similar Warnings to met earann. This just caused confusion people believing someone down the road trowing warnings around because they think they know better than met earann. The masses eat it up. Nobody is been held responsible for the driviel they produce , wether it main stream media or online. And it's only going to get worse, wait for a decent winter charts to come and you won't have to worry about mail saying months of snow. It will be on the news and Facebook and people will believe it sadly.
[Deleted User] wrote: » I thought ME were fairly spot on with the forecasts. Obviously they have to play it a bit on the safety first side, they’d be criticized badly if they didn’t. But most of the country had a yellow warning and that was just about justified. Some windier than normal weather but nothing major. And then orange for coastal areas were apparently it was a good bit worse. What’s baffling is why the media went all out predicting a doomsday storm when that was never forecast. The national broadcaster at least should have a duty to give accurate news reports.
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