New Met Éireann Website (beta)

M.T. Cranium · 15-02-2019 8:14pm

Does anyone know what is up with the radar on the site? No link to radar has been showing up for past two days.

I have managed to find a route to the old archived site, you go through "accessible forecasts" at bottom of menu under forecasts, and the header for that contains a link. Then over on that site, there is still the old style radar.

Joe Public · 15-02-2019 10:50pm

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Does anyone know what is up with the radar on the site? No link to radar has been showing up for past two days.

I have managed to find a route to the old archived site, you go through "accessible forecasts" at bottom of menu under forecasts, and the header for that contains a link. Then over on that site, there is still the old style radar.

Don't call it the "old style radar", call it something like the normal radar or you might be giving them ideas

M.T. Cranium · 16-02-2019 7:59am

I hear you, the new style radar looks nice enough but it goes only 90 minutes (or so) and I preferred the six hour sequences.

Jpmarn · 17-02-2019 8:39pm

I am missing the link to the rainfall radar under the latest weather reports menu on the new site. Still available on the archive site.

highdef · 18-02-2019 2:36am

When I go to https://www.met.ie/ I'm not seeing any changes, on Chrome. The rainfall radar is still the first thing I see when I go that site.

Gaoth Laidir · 02-03-2019 11:29am

I downloaded the app and am fairly happy with it, though I note that they state that the wind forecast chart shows the wind at 2 metres and not the standard 10. I wonder if it's a typo or actually the case. If it is the case then it's not comparable to other model output data.

r93kaey5p2izun · 31-03-2019 12:52pm

Can anyone link to the monthly data records for all the weather stations on the new site? The new site is barely functional on my phone, the text is all on top of itself and charts don't display. I cannot find the monthly data section where you choose a station and it shows rainfall, average temp to date etc for each month. The page on the legacy site under "past weather" stopped updating on 5th March.

Harry Palmr · 31-03-2019 1:32pm

First time I've bothered checking the "new" site for ages, finally it works in opera 12.18

sryanbruen · 31-03-2019 7:17pm

Karla High Mathematics wrote: »

Can anyone link to the monthly data records for all the weather stations on the new site? The new site is barely functional on my phone, the text is all on top of itself and charts don't display. I cannot find the monthly data section where you choose a station and it shows rainfall, average temp to date etc for each month. The page on the legacy site under "past weather" stopped updating on 5th March.

https://www.met.ie/climate/available-data/monthly-data

JCX BXC · 08-04-2019 9:29pm

The android app won't load the warnings! Anyone else having these issues?

Gooser14 · 08-04-2019 11:19pm

Yes.

Edit: Reinstalled the app & it's working fine now.

Meteorite58 · 08-04-2019 11:25pm

JCX BXC wrote: »

The android app won't load the warnings! Anyone else having these issues?

Can see the warnings on my phone on Android.

JCX BXC · 08-04-2019 11:29pm

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Can see the warnings on my phone on Android.

As can I now, was not working all day.

AndrewJRenko · 09-04-2019 9:51pm

Do Met Eireann provide UV Index information? I saw something that said they would provide it from April to September, but I can't find anything on the site.

JCX BXC · 09-04-2019 10:26pm

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Do Met Eireann provide UV Index information? I saw something that said they would provide it from April to September, but I can't find anything on the site.

They did on their old website, I don't see any provisions for it on the new.

Jpmarn · 11-04-2019 9:40am

Just noticed on the Rainfall Radar chart on the new site has been improved. You get a choice of 12, 24 or 48 hours to aminate to. It is a far cry to just 6 hours on the new site to 12 hours on the old archive.met.ie site.

ronnie3585 · 11-04-2019 10:16am

Jpmarn wrote: »

Just noticed on the Rainfall Radar chart on the new site has been improved. You get a choice of 12, 24 or 48 hours to aminate to. It is a far cry to just 6 hours on the new site to 12 hours on the old archive.met.ie site.

How do you select this extended range, I can't see it on the site?

Comhrá · 11-04-2019 10:22am

Jpmarn wrote: »

Just noticed on the Rainfall Radar chart on the new site has been improved. You get a choice of 12, 24 or 48 hours to aminate to. It is a far cry to just 6 hours on the new site to 12 hours on the old archive.met.ie site.

I'm using a Windows laptop and I can't see any option for the 12,24 or 48 hrs. animation. Am I missing something or is it just the Android app that has the improved options?

https://www.met.ie/

axe2grind · 11-04-2019 1:52pm

Jpmarn wrote: »

Just noticed on the Rainfall Radar chart on the new site has been improved. You get a choice of 12, 24 or 48 hours to aminate to. It is a far cry to just 6 hours on the new site to 12 hours on the old archive.met.ie site.

Where is this? Just looked and its only 90mins

Latest Rainfall Radar showing live precipitation and the last 90 minutes precipitation over Ireland, updated every 5 minutes.

sryanbruen · 11-04-2019 2:04pm

Comhra wrote: »

I'm using a Windows laptop and I can't see any option for the 12,24 or 48 hrs. animation. Am I missing something or is it just the Android app that has the improved options?

https://www.met.ie/

axe2grind wrote: »

Where is this? Just looked and its only 90mins

Windows computer:

axe2grind · 11-04-2019 2:20pm

Thats great, but now I cant find the 90min radar. Recent Rainfall Radar seems to default to the 12hr version.
It would be nice if these 3 variants had the slider option like the 90min one.

sryanbruen · 11-04-2019 2:22pm

axe2grind wrote: »

Thats great, but now I cant find the 90min radar. Recent Rainfall Radar seems to default to the 12hr version.
It would be nice if these 3 variants had the slider option like the 90min one.

The 90 minute one is on the home page when you go onto met.ie.

Jpmarn · 11-04-2019 5:17pm

The mobile version of the website defaults to 12 hour. Scroll down for links to 24 and 48 hour charts.

AndrewJRenko · 18-04-2019 9:36am

JCX BXC wrote: »

They did on their old website, I don't see any provisions for it on the new.

Madness to leave this information out, given that all the cancer prevention advice is to watch the UV Index to know when you need sunscreen.

20-04-2019 12:09pm

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Madness to leave this information out, given that all the cancer prevention advice is to watch the UV Index to know when you need sunscreen.

That's not rocket science is it ? if people need to be told when to wear sun cream then ....................

my3cents · 20-04-2019 12:27pm

Deleted User wrote: »

That's not rocket science is it ? if people need to be told when to wear sun cream then ....................

Sort of

No harm in a reminder.

Current weather is a classic example. Its the first sun this year that could cause bad sunburn but some people won't cop on because its not really summer yet.

Joe Public · 21-04-2019 11:41pm

JCX BXC wrote: »

They did on their old website, I don't see any provisions for it on the new.

https://www.met.ie/forecasts/dublin

They had UV index down as moderate today

AndrewJRenko · 23-04-2019 9:32am

Joe Public wrote: »

https://www.met.ie/forecasts/dublin

They had UV index down as moderate today

Thanks, good to see it.

23-04-2019 4:59pm

I noticed that the rainfall radar isn't accurate at all, showed mist or light rainfall this morning over this part of Dublin and there wasn't a drop of rain/mist. I've noticed this before a lot and it shows heavier rainfall than is actually falling.

AndrewJRenko · 23-04-2019 5:06pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I noticed that the rainfall radar isn't accurate at all, showed mist or light rainfall this morning over this part of Dublin and there wasn't a drop of rain/mist. I've noticed this before a lot and it shows heavier rainfall than is actually falling.

There were short periods of rain over south Dublin this morning.

23-04-2019 6:10pm

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

There were short periods of rain over south Dublin this morning.

Perhaps where you are but I've seen this at home too.

Comhrá · 23-04-2019 6:23pm

It's fairly common to see rain evaporate before it reaches the ground even though the radar shows a return from higher levels where precipitation is present.

Rainfall radar can be a bit unreliable. Sometimes when there's heavy drizzle falling, the very opposite happens - it's wet at ground level but the tiny droplets of drizzle are not picked up by the radar.

Discodog · 24-04-2019 9:14am

It's ridiculous that, whoever designed the new radar, allowed the rainfall to block the outlines on the map.

24-04-2019 1:21pm

Comhra wrote: »

It's fairly common to see rain evaporate before it reaches the ground even though the radar shows a return from higher levels where precipitation is present.

Rainfall radar can be a bit unreliable. Sometimes when there's heavy drizzle falling, the very opposite happens - it's wet at ground level but the tiny droplets of drizzle are not picked up by the radar.

It also shows heavier rain on the radar than is actually falling, It was never this bad,

Comhrá · 24-04-2019 10:40pm

Discodog wrote: »

It's ridiculous that, whoever designed the new radar, allowed the rainfall to block the outlines on the map.

Agreed. A very poor effort. Probably the worst rainfall radar display you'll find on any national meteorological website.

Joe Public · 14-06-2019 12:18pm

I see a note at the top of http://archive.met.ie to say it will soon be unavailable which I'm not happy about as I still don't like the replacement.
Re. the unexciting looking rainfall radar page is there any other websites showing the counties of Ireland as a background to a see through rainfall radar?

ronnie3585 · 14-06-2019 12:28pm

Joe Public wrote: »

I see a note at the top of http://archive.met.ie to say it will soon be unavailable which I'm not happy about as I still don't like the replacement.

That's disappointing, it's much better than the current version.

Re. the unexciting looking rainfall radar page is there any other websites showing the counties of Ireland as a background to a see through rainfall radar?

I find Netweather's radar excellent. Much clearer than ME's and is updated in 5 minute increments.

https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar

dmc17 · 14-06-2019 12:39pm

Joe Public wrote: »

I see a note at the top of http://archive.met.ie to say it will soon be unavailable which I'm not happy about as I still don't like the replacement.
Re. the unexciting looking rainfall radar page is there any other websites showing the counties of Ireland as a background to a see through rainfall radar?

Anyone got ideas on the best alternatives to Met Eireann? I have also been using the old website due to the poor design of the new one

Comhrá · 14-06-2019 1:56pm

dmc17 wrote: »

Anyone got ideas on the best alternatives to Met Eireann? I have also been using the old website due to the poor design of the new one

Here are a few that I use from time to time. None are perfect but most of them are better than the new ME effort imho.

https://meteoradar.co.uk/expected-rainfall#

https://www.rainviewer.com/

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observation/rainfall-radar#?map=Rainfall&fcTime=1560472500&zoom=6&lon=-4.00&lat=53.51

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/uk-rainfall-radar.aspx

Auld Jim Halpin · 20-06-2019 3:51pm

Joe Public wrote: »

I see a note at the top of http://archive.met.ie to say it will soon be unavailable which I'm not happy about as I still don't like the replacement.
Re. the unexciting looking rainfall radar page is there any other websites showing the counties of Ireland as a background to a see through rainfall radar?

That is very disappointing, I hope they don't get rid of it, I haven't used the new one at all in months, going on comments in here it never got much better since March when it launched. They don't listen to users it would seem, they must have made the new webpage for themselves. Can they not put their hands up and say we got it wrong, mea culpa, lets start again with the users input in mind. Or why not host the old and the new on the same server and let users choose what suits them best. I suppose they won't release figures of visitors number to old and new in the last 3 months or release the cost to the taxpayer for that new one. Spin it up as an outright success, the FG way.

Joe Public · 02-07-2019 7:35pm

archive.met.ie has gone :-(

HeidiHeidi · 02-07-2019 7:43pm

Joe Public wrote: »

archive.met.ie has gone :-(

Still working on my mobile.

Keeping my fingers crossed here, I hate the new site

Joe Public · 02-07-2019 8:22pm

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Still working on my mobile.

Keeping my fingers crossed here, I hate the new site

http://archive.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

I'm getting HTTP/1.1 New Application Failed

what URL are you using?

HeidiHeidi · 02-07-2019 8:39pm

Joe Public wrote: »

http://archive.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

I'm getting HTTP/1.1 New Application Failed

what URL are you using?

m.met.ie is still working on the mobile for me.

The archive site on the laptop is giving the same failed message as you're getting.

I presume the mobile site will go the same way fairly soon

zom · 02-07-2019 9:57pm

zom wrote: »

http://archive.met.ie/

But not sure how long they will keep it alive ...

archive.met.ie down, wonder if this is the end...:(:(:(

Auld Jim Halpin · 02-07-2019 11:19pm

zom wrote: »

archive.met.ie down, wonder if this is the end...:(:(:(

At 10:55 I loaded the radar page and it was up to date, any subsequent clicks are giving the 1.1 App error. Since they announced they were retiring the old site I have been trying to use the new one but its just dreadful. I may use the m.met.ie on the PC and phone as a workaround until I find something else. Very disappointing that they took this route, I have completed multiple surveys for them over the years and emailed in suggestions, complaints and faults. I can only hope that they overhaul the new site asap.

I just loaded the new site on my phone, www.met.ie, IOS 12, via the browser, the very first page it loads is the rainfall radar, is there any way to see the entire island of Ireland at once, I can only see 1/3 of the island at once, can't zoom out any further. - Apologies if this has already been discussed on this thread, I stopped following it a while back.

Jpmarn · 03-07-2019 8:45am

It seems that the archive.met.ie is up and running this morning.

zom · 03-07-2019 12:12pm

Yes I see archive.met.ie working back again. I actually realized in the morning when I checked what weather will be for the rest of the day.

@Auld Jim Halpin : I agree old website works much better on mobile than new one, especially radar subpage (http://archive.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp). Old website is simple and fast but probably not carrying all modern metrics allowing traffic monetization.

Old website on webpagetest.org (3 sec load, 600kb)
https://www.webpagetest.org/result/190703_KG_a307b47ff862887ae8d4a860351328d3/

New website on webpagetest.org (11 sec load, 3000kb)
https://www.webpagetest.org/result/190703_SA_9d96b1188d62f51fa74058fa427d5922/

r93kaey5p2izun · 10-07-2019 10:56am

Old website is gone again for me. Was working a couple of hours ago. I'll never take to the new one. It's just so clunky and difficult on mobile.

mickger844posts · 10-07-2019 11:16am

Karla High Mathematics wrote: »

Old website is gone again for me. Was working a couple of hours ago. I'll never take to the new one. It's just so clunky and difficult on mobile.

Gone for me too. I was using their old radar for my website and the image is not loading

New Met Éireann Website (beta)

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