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Storm Brendan Orange Warning

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  • #62
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,430 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    WhatsGoingOn2 wrote: »
    Every single time there is a storm, same threads.
    If it didn't happen in Dublin, it didn't happen...
    Look at this to see how many power outages there are countrywide

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

    Sure they don't have internet down the country how are are they suppose to tell us on boards? :rolleyes:

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #63
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,401 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    wiggle16 wrote: »
    And you thought it's what I wrote too. You can write but can't read, apparently. I'm not annoyed that the weather wasn't worse. I'm slightly irritated that a general warning was given where it needn't have been general, and it's not the first time.

    And no, before you say it, that's not the same thing.

    I wouldn't say it's the same thing because it's not.

    Yes, I can read, if you can't fully understand my point that's a different issue. You did a bit of a Cathy Newman on it... "So you're saying I think..."

    I must say you've a very confrontational style for someone who is - apparently - a Mod of Personal Issues.


  • #64
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Flooding along the coast in the North East. Had it hit an hour or 2 earlier to fully coincide with high tide there would have been serious damage.


  • #65
    wiggle16
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭wiggle16


    Arghus wrote: »
    I must say you've a very confrontational style for someone who is - apparently - a Mod of Personal Issues.

    :rolleyes:


  • #66
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Some people seem to hold Met Eireann in the same regard as the emergency services or a public service organisation. In reality they are as much a bloated taxpayer funded fossil as RTE. In some sense even worse than RTE because the job they do, and check out the salaries they get, is now almost redundant because of online access to all the satellites and charts that were once their alchemy and exclusive domain. There is no magic to meteorology, it is a science, an interesting one with many variables, but still just an analysis of available data.
    On the weather forum there are a few people who do the same job for free. They would disagree and say they are amateur while Met. Ie are professional, but they're all just analysing the same data.
    The problem Met Eireann has is PR. Distributing their message to the people. Well that's a job for PR people, not meteorologists.

    Dublin was never going to see orange warning winds today. For ophelia they issued the same warning to the west coast as they did to the East, be inside at 4pm, even though the weather front was miles off the East Coast at that time. Its just Lazy. And they should do better for the salaries we pay them.


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  • #67
    Letwin_Larry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 615 ✭✭✭Letwin_Larry


    https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/incredible-footage-shows-trampoline-blown-21270650

    talk about hyping it up. i love the headline "INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE shows trampoline blown on to M7 in Limerick as Storm Brendan hits Ireland"

    sorry but what's so incredible about a piece of garden furniture being blown by the wind? hardly earth shattering is it?


  • #68
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,401 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    wiggle16 wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    Once again, judging by your response, I am completely right.


  • #69
    M5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭M5


    Henceforth I think we should allow twitter (with the benifit of hindsight, of course ) to assign the warnings in areas of 1m^2


  • #70
    M5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭M5


    Letwin_Larry wrote: »
    https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/incredible-footage-shows-trampoline-blown-21270650

    talk about hyping it up. i love the headline "INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE shows trampoline blown on to M7 in Limerick as Storm Brendan hits Ireland"

    sorry but what's so incredible about a piece of garden furniture being blown by the wind? hardly earth shattering is it?

    Click bait headlines in a click bait paper!

    Pro tip 1) don't click on baity headlines
    Pro tip 2) don't read the flipping mirror


  • #71
    greenspurs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,065 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    Hyped up , wanna be American forecasters + government agencies....

    "WARNING - winter weather expected in Winter"

    "Turn on your wipers when it rains"
    "Slow down when it rains/snows/foggy/windy"

    If you need to be instructed/informed how to behave/not get killed/injured , then you should not be driving/alive.....


    (but then again you get fupping idiots that go swimming/surfing/whatever when its just not safe to do so.... Leave them off I say.. Darwinism will sort it out )
    247469249_2017413731748359_7675802031635703098_n.jpg

    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn



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  • #72
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,337 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    The conditions and subsequent damage yesterday was bang on the criteria of an orange warning.

    They got it spot on.


  • #73
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Tabloid weather warnings is all they are. There have been worse days than yesterday already this winter. Absolute farce.


  • #74
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,946 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Tabloid weather warnings is all they are. There have been worse days than yesterday already this winter. Absolute farce.

    I'm sorry you didn't suffer more damage, a roof cave in at least. Hope for better worse next time.


  • #75
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Letwin_Larry wrote: »
    https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/incredible-footage-shows-trampoline-blown-21270650

    talk about hyping it up. i love the headline "INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE shows trampoline blown on to M7 in Limerick as Storm Brendan hits Ireland"

    sorry but what's so incredible about a piece of garden furniture being blown by the wind? hardly earth shattering is it?
    Will this do you instead?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwWv6UphTWM


  • #76
    Hammer Archer
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,938 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hammer Archer


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Dublin was never going to see orange warning winds today.
    Except it did....


  • #77
    crossman47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭crossman47


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Some people seem to hold Met Eireann in the same regard as the emergency services or a public service organisation. In reality they are as much a bloated taxpayer funded fossil as RTE. In some sense even worse than RTE because the job they do, and check out the salaries they get, is now almost redundant because of online access to all the satellites and charts that were once their alchemy and exclusive domain. There is no magic to meteorology, it is a science, an interesting one with many variables, but still just an analysis of available data.
    .

    And you think any person could do that analysis? Cop on.


  • #78
    maccored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,844 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    wiggle16 wrote: »
    In Dublin here, so I'm not commenting on what it was like in the West, only in the East of the country really... but:

    Was that it? Was that seriously it?? That bit of rain was worth a weather warning?

    The weather was worse last Saturday morning FFS. I know forecasts can be wrong, but the only weather warning that was in any way justified was for Ophelia - which turned out to be nothing major in many parts of the country. I say it was justified only because of the two people killed, one of which was a freak event in all fairness.

    Anyone else think the warning system should be scrapped?

    It was pretty ****ing bad yesterday in portlaoise. stupid posts on boards should be scrapped


  • #79
    crossman47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭crossman47


    maccored wrote: »
    It was pretty ****ing bad yesterday in portlaoise. stupid posts on boards should be scrapped

    It was also bad in Dublin despite the post you read. My bins and garden chairs were blown all over the garden.


  • #80
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,946 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    crossman47 wrote: »
    It was also bad in Dublin despite the post you read. My bins and garden chairs were blown all over the garden.

    As bad as this ?

    rebuild.png


  • #81
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    crossman47 wrote: »
    And you think any person could do that analysis? Cop on.


    Why are you so cross, man?
    Any competent person with basic knowledge and training (all available online) can do it. It's not magic. It's just science.


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  • #82
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hammer Archer wrote: »
    Except it did....

    Orange warning level wind criteria were not met in Dublin. See this post from the excellent Sryanbruen in the weather forum.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=499951&d=1578938738


  • #83
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,337 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Orange warning level wind criteria were not met in Dublin. See this post from the excellent Sryanbruen in the weather forum.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=499951&d=1578938738

    Am.

    3rd one down.

    Casement Aerodrome.

    111.

    Orange.


  • #84
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Boggles wrote: »
    Am.

    3rd one down.

    Casement Aerodrome.

    111.

    Orange.

    :mad:


  • #85
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,337 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Deleted User wrote: »
    :mad:

    They got it spot on.

    It's the reason we don't rely on blowhards from the internet to issue warnings.

    If they can't actually read past wind speeds on a simple chart how are they going to forecast anything?


  • #86
    Nollog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,910 ✭✭✭Nollog


    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    Better they are over cautious then under cautious.

    Unfortunately Dublin folk are too many, so next time RTE will say it's not as big a deal because last time the orange warning meant light rain in Dublin.

    Meanwhile, the other side of the country gets battered.


  • #87
    Hammer Archer
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,938 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hammer Archer


    Deleted User wrote: »
    :mad:
    Indeed. It's easy to predict future weather but you can't even read past weather?


  • #88
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Play the ball not the man, Lads.

    Point remains, Met Eireann are an overpaid bloated organisation that are becoming less and less relevant with each passing year.


  • #89
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Play the ball not the man, Lads.

    Point remains, Met Eireann are an overpaid bloated organisation that are becoming less and less relevant with each passing year.

    The record is skipping, you ought to change it. Once you become a qualified meteorologist, your opinion might hold some validity. Until then, you're just another generic poster mouthing off for attention.


  • #90
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    The record is skipping, you ought to change it. Once you become a qualified meteorologist, your opinion might hold some validity. Until then, you're just another generic poster mouthing off for attention.

    Wonderful logic. Only politicians may criticise politicians, only teachers are qualified to discuss teaching, and only premiere league footballers may hold forth on the value of VAR.
    What planet are you living on by the way? Do they have discussion boards there?


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  • #91
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Wonderful logic. Only politicians may criticise politicians, only teachers are qualified to discuss teaching, and only premiere league footballers may hold forth on the value of VAR.
    What planet are you living on by the way? Do they have discussion boards there?

    You can have an opinion. Nobody is obliged to respect it.


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