Shannon Radar being replaced.

Discodog · 15-10-2023 11:25AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121240337#Comment_121240337

https://www.weatherandradar.co.uk/weather-map?center=53.28,-9.04&placemark=53.2724,-9.051&zoom=8&layer=wr

Zoom out to get wider view.

They have a good app & an excellent widget.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=weather+and+radar&c=apps&hl=en-GB

Discodog · 23-10-2023 09:21AM

Very strange that minute cast sites like Accuweather are showing the new radar but their forecasts are totally wrong when they used to be excellent.

Chris_5339762 · 23-10-2023 10:52AM

Netweather still isn't showing it, which is maddening because I pay for NW Extra!

CrowdedHouse · 23-10-2023 01:05PM

I wonder could they turn up the power and vapourise this rain 😁

Discodog · 23-10-2023 01:33PM

I have emailed ME to ask what the situation is with third party users.

natexornate · 25-10-2023 10:31AM

On the met.ie site there seems to be a rendering bug where it cuts off the Shannon radar along a line 30ish km south of the coast. On mobile web home page I see the full circle of coverage, but not if I click on the map to go "full-screen". See the cut off in the screenshot:

WattsUp · 25-10-2023 11:16AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121281584#Comment_121281584

Saw that on the app, seems to be okay on the main website

StormForce13 · 26-10-2023 09:31AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121273500#Comment_121273500

I emailed them (netweather) to ask why and they responded that they're aware of the new radar but it will be "a while" before it's integrated into their maps.

JCX BXC · 26-10-2023 11:50AM

And it's down since 10:55am.

Chris_5339762 · 26-10-2023 11:54AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121285258#Comment_121285258

Thanks. Annoying, but at least they know.

Discodog · 26-10-2023 01:22PM

Seems to be coming & going

pureza · 26-10-2023 07:59PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121273500#Comment_121273500

Neither is the UK met office

Reason being it hasn't been officially commissioned yet properly probably, even if its feeding into everything properly

InAtFullBack · 27-10-2023 08:51AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121281584#Comment_121281584

That is quite annoying - but it seems to be the way the website is coded - all overlays to fit in to a set frame and while radar data exceeds this set frame it just gets disregarded on the main site. A bloomin' pain in the butt for southwest coastal dwellers who'd rely on rainfall detection much further out over the ocean to see what is coming their way over the next few hours.

Bsal · 28-10-2023 02:30AM

Windy now has data from the new radar! Netweather and UK met still don't have the data.

StormForce13 · 08-11-2023 07:21PM

The new radar appears to be down! Thanks a lot, ME! 😣

Oscar Bravo · 08-11-2023 08:18PM

Goosed . A tweet with very little detail from met Eireann

"The images from the Shannon rainfall radar are currently unavailable. Local observation reports are available here⬇️"

met.ie/latest-reports…

pauldry · 08-11-2023 09:09PM

There's a spider in it. Someone needs to climb it and take him out. Well that sorts my rain gauge when it's "goosed"

StormForce13 · 08-11-2023 10:26PM

The spider has been removed so it's back up again!

sparrowcar · 17-11-2023 01:42PM

Is it down again...?

pauldry · 17-11-2023 04:03PM

The coverage from it quite poor. Look at Netweather and its not there. Look at met.ie and it shows rain in most of Ireland but rain is just in the South so its wrong. A waste of time. Forecast radars apps are better coz at least theyr close to the reality. This Shannon radar is a sham.

JCX BXC · 17-11-2023 04:14PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121380591#Comment_121380591

Netweather don't have the Shannon Radar.

Raining in Galway City, radar was correct for that.

pauldry · 18-11-2023 11:58AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121380643#Comment_121380643

Ya what's the point in that?

There's nowhere reliable to see where the showers in Southwest are. Why don't Netweather have it? They used to. Is there any app that does have it? Why is the Met Eireann Radar so utterly crap. Like yesterday it was lashing in Cork and Kerry and their radar on site showed light blue which to me means light rain. They used to have a better radar on their website before they "improved" it

pauldry · 18-11-2023 12:28PM

As I'm just to the South of Sligo and its absolutely teeming it down I've compared the 3 radars I'm using

1.Met Eireann -shows nothing

2. Netweather - Shows it approaching but can't get coverage for South and West

Screenshot_20231118_112111_Netweather Radar.jpg

3. Weather and Radar > mainly a forecast site to use as a guide to see if its raining in South and West

Screenshot_20231118_112247_Weather&Radar.jpg

delly · 22-11-2023 07:53PM

Excuse my non weather expertise knowledge, but what the feck is going on with met.ie rainfall radar? It currently shows no rain and the UK met office site says the country is covered in light rain. I'm in the north east and it's been raining for a while now. Is it all Shannon related?

Comhrá · 29-03-2024 07:58AM

….and it's down. The newly installed Shannon radar is broken again. Heading into the long Easter weekend hopefully it won't turn into another protracted outage.

pauldry · 29-03-2024 09:47AM

Ya it NEVER works on Netweather App. Its a piece of shyte.

squonk · 29-03-2024 10:09AM

it’s particularly annoying. The west pretty much did without a rainfall radar last summer but with the hope of a much better resolution and rock hard reliability as it is a new installation. Sadly it looks like things have only improved a little. I don’t think anyone would mind a blip but it’s been gone since last night. Dublin seems way more reliable. I wonder why that is?