New Met Éireann Website (beta)

Discodog · 22-08-2018 10:46am

JCX BXC wrote: »

Still gone. Not an issue of the site though more MÉ

It is because there is no mention of it or when it will be working.

Comhrá · 22-08-2018 11:10am

Discodog wrote: »

It is because there is no mention of it or when it will be working.

ME are never great with updates re the radar outages. If it's out for more than 3 or 4 days, they may post something. I've emailed them in the past asking about radar outage duration but never even got a reply.

Comhrá · 22-08-2018 4:56pm

https://www.met.ie/limited-rainfall-radar-images

Shannon Rainfall Radar under service

The Shannon Rainfall Radar is currently under service for the foreseeable future. The Dublin and Belfast Radar are operating as normal.

Digital Communications Unit,

Business Continuity Management Division,

Met reann

Discodog · 22-08-2018 7:25pm

Comhra wrote: »

https://www.met.ie/limited-rainfall-radar-images

Foreseeable future - sounds promising :eek:

Comhrá · 22-08-2018 9:57pm

Discodog wrote: »

Foreseeable future - sounds promising :eek:

Could it be an FI (Fantasy Island) situation?

sumtings · 22-08-2018 10:15pm

Discodog wrote: »

Foreseeable future - sounds promising :eek:

Not good, live in Limerick and totally spoilt being so near the Shannon radar, missing it already. It was drizzling fairly heavy today and wasn't showing from Dublin.

Discodog · 23-08-2018 8:35am

If it needed work it would of been sensible to do it when we had a month of settled weather. It seems to go down every year. Maybe better to invest money in important things like the radar rather than the website.

Comhrá · 23-08-2018 10:08am

I recall there being a major refurbish of the Shannon radar about 3-4 years ago. It was down for a couple of weeks and I was under the impression it was then good for purpose for many years to come, but maybe not?

I'm thinking the wonderful new ME website has used up all their budget.

RoisinD · 23-08-2018 1:26pm

Comhra wrote: »

I recall there being a major refurbish of the Shannon radar about 3-4 years ago. It was down for a couple of weeks and I was under the impression it was then good for purpose for many years to come, but maybe not?

I'm thinking the wonderful new ME website has used up all their budget.

Yes it had a major refurb. Prior to that it was so unreliable. Wish they would explain 'forseeable future'

[Deleted User] · 23-08-2018 4:22pm

"forseeable future" = FUBAR
In other words: it has failed so badly they don't know how long it will take to get fixed!

my3cents · 23-08-2018 4:36pm

The lack of reliable rainfall radar really is the last blow.

I'm not as down on the site as some others here as it works for me most of the time, however as far as I'm concerned The Rainfall Radar Is The Met.ie Forecast. No rain radar and I'm not coming back as often as the site is useless to me. I do live in one of those outlying areas that needs both radars working to give me an idea of what weather is to come.

sumtings · 23-08-2018 4:47pm

Is it back up working? It has the outline and there is rain showing further south in munster.

[Deleted User] · 23-08-2018 4:56pm

dolanbaker wrote: »

"forseeable future" = FUBAR
In other words: it has failed so badly they don't know how long it will take to get fixed!

Looks like the spare part arrived quicker than expected, good to see it back.

my3cents · 23-08-2018 4:56pm

sumtings wrote: »

Is it back up working? It has the outline and there is rain showing further south in munster.

Looks like it.

I can step outside again

sumtings · 23-08-2018 4:58pm

my3cents wrote: »

Looks like it.

I can step outside again

I know of two people today who got soaked as they didn't know the radar was down. It is a great service.

igCorcaigh · 23-08-2018 5:00pm

Location defaults to Dublin on the android app.
I keep on having to manually select my location when I open the app.

Very annoying.

HeidiHeidi · 23-08-2018 5:05pm

Does anyone know of a feedback address that we could send our comments to?

Or would ME know if users are always reverting to the old site and put 2+2 together? (I gave up using the new site a long time ago)

It's such a shambles, I'd love to make my opinion heard, for all the good it might do.

Comhrá · 23-08-2018 5:21pm

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Does anyone know of a feedback address that we could send our comments to?

Or would ME know if users are always reverting to the old site and put 2+2 together? (I gave up using the new site a long time ago)

It's such a shambles, I'd love to make my opinion heard, for all the good it might do.

https://www.met.ie/about-us/contact-us

Harry Palmr · 06-09-2018 9:43am

SATURDAY: Lingering heavy overnight rain in the south and parts of the east at first. Latest indications are for rain to clear with good sunny spells to develop across most areas. Highest temperatures of 15 to 19 degrees Celsius in mostly light breezes.

Leinster (New Ross as location) forecast as of 6 AM this morning

Joe Public · 06-09-2018 11:14am

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Leinster (New Ross as location) forecast as of 6 AM this morning

The sooner they realise that weather for dummies does not add up the better. It's no accident that mother nature is female and thus can not be pigeon holed.

Comhrá · 06-09-2018 12:24pm

Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Palmr View Post
Leinster (New Ross as location) forecast as of 6 AM this morning

Joe Public wrote: »

The sooner they realise that weather for dummies does not add up the better. It's no accident that mother nature is female and thus can not be pigeon holed.

So it's going to rain all day Saturday in New Ross except for one dry hour from 0400 to 0500 hrs?

Harry Palmr · 19-09-2018 10:21am

Is this website still beta?

The image above reminded me to highlight this nonsense - hourly through the night then massive spacing during waking hours! Why is the illustration of weather prediction proving so hard for met.ie?

sumtings · 19-09-2018 10:42am

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Is this website still beta?

The image above reminded me to highlight this nonsense - hourly through the night then massive spacing during waking hours! Why is the illustration of weather prediction proving so hard for met.ie?

Isn't it just that so many hours into the future it only has a few slots a day, every 6 hours but up to that point hourly.

Harry Palmr · 19-09-2018 10:46am

I'll I know is that if the rainfall predictor said a narrow front would cross between breakfast and lunch or mid afternoon and dinner you'd never know it on that graphic

Franz Von Peppercorn · 19-09-2018 5:25pm

Personally I think it’s pretty well laid out. Lots of the complaints here are pretty spurious.

tsue921i8wljb3 · 08-10-2018 6:38pm

Is anyone else having issues with www.met.ie on Chrome on Android? I have tried two different devices and the page takes forever to load. It seems to be related to the rainfall radar map and the various snapshot images it tries to render.

mickmackey1 · 08-10-2018 7:34pm

Working ok for me although it has asked for my location more than once.

[Deleted User] · 08-10-2018 8:44pm

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Personally I think it’s pretty well laid out. Lots of the complaints here are pretty spurious.

Still think the pressure charts look awful. Why map the isobar lines on to a map with a network of roads shown? Hard to make out the lines. A blank landmass would be ok.

tsue921i8wljb3 · 08-10-2018 8:53pm

mickmackey1 wrote: »

Working ok for me although it has asked for my location more than once.

Thanks. It's working fine now for me also. Nothing changed on my end.

HeidiHeidi · 08-10-2018 10:28pm

I've given up on it entirely. Can't find the rainfall radar screen anywhere on phone or laptop, only a rainfall forecast screen - and even when I could, the colours were so bland as to be borderline useless. I'm sick of trying to navigate my way around the site, it's not in the slightest intuitive. I default to the archive site for as long as it lasts.

I emailed Met Eireann with my comments, and have heard not a dickybird back from them (which is surprising and disappointing, as when I happened upon a glaring error in a sea area forecast a few years ago and emailed them about it, the forecaster on duty was straight back to me in jig time, I was most impressed).

New Met Éireann Website (beta)

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