New Met Éireann Website (beta)

spookwoman wrote: »

Top - There was some rain in the morning but after that not a drop and later it changed to partially cloudy when it was clear outside.

This is the national forecaster, farmers, businesses etc all rely on it and it's a joke, especially the regional maps. Shannon and Waterford both have airports so you would think they would be included also Limerick and Waterford are cities which is another reason. We see it nearly every day weather fronts that come from the Atlantic sweep up the west side of the country from Cork/Kerry to Donegal. The lads here laugh about the shield wall around Cork that seems to interfere with the weather fronts moving east.
Then look at the Leinster map which also includes Birr, it does Dublin and Wexford which are about 100km or so apart as the crow flies. Again Dublin has its own little weather system which is affected by the Isle of Man and even Wales so the weather between Dublin and Birr is going to be drastically different. We've often seen squally lines run from Tipperary town to Dundalk. Wexford is another one it's weather is affected by Wales, South England and the Continent. We are a small Island but our weather varies a great deal around the country.


Todays Munster Forecast 09 August 2018 13:00

Today
A mix of sunny spells and scattered showers today with some heavy bursts expected. Light to moderate, west to southwest winds with highest temperatures 15 to 18 degrees.

Tonight
Some scattered showers overnight, but clear spells also, especially in the east. Lowest temperatures 7 to 9 degrees, in mostly light west to southwest breezes.

Now look at todays radar, it's a fine example of weather differences for areas. There are showers along the west heading east and it's like a invisible line running through waterford country, through Kilkenny and up to Mullingar that seem to switch the rain clouds off yet the regional says showers for Munster today.

tiegan wrote: »

Exactly ^^^ what you said. Hate it, and esp the short range forecast now being dropped, so disappointing for a new site

JCX BXC wrote: »

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

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.



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Discodog wrote: »

Foreseeable future - sounds promising :eek:

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.

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.

sryanbruen wrote: »

Error.

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

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).