Rougies wrote: » He worded it like a true pro though, with words like, IF, MIGHT, POTENTIAL, POSSIBLE etc. before any mention of snow. We all know it's a bit of a ramp though
https://www.met.ie/ is full of bugs on Chrome I'm finding.
working in Firefox now.......though haven't checked all the links, just the weather maps and satellite imagery
Liking the new look website, working great in Chrome , haven't tried in anything else.
I think its far better than many other national weather service websites so fair play to all involved.
I do think the weather radar could be improved - adjustable playback speed, more use of colour in the rainfall ranges, the satellite images could be better too (see sat24) and I'd like a section where you can ssk for permission to share images /links on private non profit websites.
Overall I have to say the website gets better and better, frequently am discovering new things of interest on there so these are fairly minor gripe overall.
No way of getting a full page radar that's being updated ? It's the old archive map which I thought was replaced for more clarity. I can't see any way to get a large map with 5 minute updates as we had before.
regional says dublin even though i'm in waterford
If your device's 'location' isn't turned on, it may be basing that on where your wifi provider is located.
the day to day was fine. Must be still working out the kinks, it's changed to munster now.
I've given it over a week now and still find the new site to be very fiddly. A disimprovement on the previous version IMO.
I get the cookie popup every time on pc.
This is what I've been wondering ever since they updated the website. What's the point of having just the forecast without the chance of checking out what the current conditions are? Is it so no-one can complain how the forecast was inaccurate when compared to the latest reports? All I can find is this and it has fewer locations than before:
The local weather used to be on the top bar and it was at least giving me some idea of the conditions even if not completely accurate for my location. It's funny how other weather services in other European countries have no problems with displaying local weather but do they not have enough weather stations or what is the problem here?
It does come up after a few tries of re entering your area and it will also update the regional forecast. But regional defaults to Dublin yet it can say it's Waterford.
Top loaded this time but regional was back to Dublin
It shows the forecasts yes but no current weather as it is. Or at least I always thought this on the top bar meant that this was the latest observation (as in not a forecast but the actual weather right now):
It's good to have a detailed forecast but I also want the data from the weather station I'm closest to. Maybe I really should invest in one of my own.
I mentioned the lack of current conditions on the home page to ME on Instagram, and they replied that I should click into current observations and look in the table for my location! Crazy.
I have to set my location every time I visit the site to get the regional forecast for my province. It doesn't seem to remember my location, and it has been like that in the previous two versions of the website too.
Pure laziness in that response from them and not professional at all. They keep changing the site and making a balls of it. Its what you could only expect from the Department of Housing, local government and heritage.
Where do you find the predicted rainfall feature for the next week now? Is it there at all?
sigh...
(I know, I can reset the location, but the site already knows it, so why isn't the regional forecast for my area then)
I said it to them and they said oh clear the cache. I said done that used diff browsers etc and the same. Never got back
The location has always been flakey, back to the days of the much older site. It's not a complex issue. They don't care.
I found clearing the cookies worked but then once I put a new location in, it fixes on that one.
to go back to the forecast ive found you can click on the logo , will bring you back .
Has the graphical time scroller (with the hourly cloud, rain, temperature etc) for the eight day forecast disappeared for anyone else? Not working in either mobile web or desktop site for me.
Not going to lie, this is more or less the only part of the site I really look at to get local weather forecasts. Withdrawal symptoms are severe. Somebody do something!
Was doing that for me at the start when they changed over. Try reloading the page and putting your area back in.
Forecast for the waterford way off. Supposed to be just showers confined to the coast but it hasn't stopped since about 9pm. Radar for the area started off with just light rain but its stagnant and getting heavier as the night goes on.
I just got this response from Met Eireann on twitter:
Seems like a terrible decision really...
That makes no sense to me. What do they even mean? Every weather site in other countries display the current weather conditions. It's what most people go to the site for!
Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. This is just a 'this is a feature not a bug' response... god forbid someone would want to see the current weather easily...
I don't fully understand the reasoning behind this update, now I'm talking about the desktop site for now. It used to be relatively clean and clear, but now its a cluttered mess. Rainfall radar far too small, Analysis charts don't need to be taking up so much page space IMO. And the weather warning section is no longer as clear or front and centre.
There's a full page radar here:
https://www.met.ie/full-screen-maps
I don’t like to criticise ME. Eastern inishowen had torrential rain yesterday evening, bridges and roads damaged. Bridges and roads were closed. Structural damage occurred. Not sure how properties faired. I know it was localised to one area of one county but there wasn’t a warning in place.
I’m not for a second saying they should apologise or anything ridiculous like that but an acknowledgment of what happened wouldn’t be hard and having watched the weather there was zero. A pretty poor performance overall. No tweets about it today either. This was there tweet yesterday evening.
It's because they don't give a shite about the west of Ireland.
Awful, sloppy and careless work by ME.
Do they not even bother to keep an eye on they the UK Met Office are publishing for NI? If they had of been, they would have saw the Warning from the Met Office. Maybe that would have prompted ME to check if a warning needs to be applied to Border Counties.
ME need to provide some answers as to what happened and why a neighbouring forecast service humiliated them.
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