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All Things Met Eireann Related Go in Here (MOD NOTE #1)

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    #422
    mattser
    Registered Users Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭mattser


    Amateurs, Ted, amateurs.


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    #423
    hawkwing
    Registered Users Posts: 1,803 ✭✭✭hawkwing


    Gerry just now on the sixone bringing wind,rain,hail and much cooler weather,then said with a smile "but we had a good run of it"! Maybe if he stayed away it would have continued:o


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    #424
    Discodog
    Registered Users Posts: 15,822 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    The relatively new Short range forecast is pretty poor. It says that it's updated every 50 mins or so but it can't be. It seems to be several hours behind the rainfall radar & isn't being updated. It's a pity because it could of been very useful.

    Did anyone fill out the customer survey that was a pop up on the ME site ?


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    #425
    Jpmarn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Jpmarn


    Discodog wrote: »
    Did anyone fill out the customer survey that was a pop up on the ME site ?

    Yes and I requested that they post hourly weather reports for past hours up to 24 hours ago as well as the current latest hour.


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    #426
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Anyone interested in observations and their use and how they are used might look at

    http://www.met.ie/news/display.asp?ID=288


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    #427
    No Bills
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭No Bills


    Saw this event mentioned in the Weather News section on the Met Eireann website:

    "Ensemble Prediction Systems : Probably the best forecasting
    systems in the world…

    22 December, The Custom House, Dublin, at 6pm

    Alan Hally, PhD Post-doctoral researcher at Météo-France, Toulouse"

    Thought it might be of interest to some people on here.

    More details on the Irish Meteorological Society website: irishmetsociety.org


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    #428
    MadYaker
    Registered Users Posts: 12,140 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Just looking at 5 day rainfall forecast there and it looks like saturday is going to be a washout. I'm driving from Galway to Kerry that day I hope theres no serious flooding.


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    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea



    Met Éireann plans to start naming storms from next year
    http://www.thejournal.ie/met-eireann-naming-storms-1842107-Dec2014/


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    #430
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,075 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Pangea wrote: »

    Met Éireann plans to start naming storms from next year
    http://www.thejournal.ie/met-eireann-naming-storms-1842107-Dec2014/

    Seeing as they're old fashioned/out of date and all bet the first one will be called Assumpta. ;)


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    #431
    mattser
    Registered Users Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭mattser


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Seeing as they're old fashioned/out of date and all bet the first one will be called Assumpta. ;)

    :D You really couldn't make this stuff up.


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    sunnyagain
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭sunnyagain


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Seeing as they're old fashioned/out of date and all bet the first one will be called Assumpta. ;)

    Which are you talking about UKMO or the Irish Met Service?


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    sunnyagain
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭sunnyagain


    No Bills wrote: »
    Saw this event mentioned in the Weather News section on the Met Eireann website:

    "Ensemble Prediction Systems : Probably the best forecasting
    systems in the world…

    22 December, The Custom House, Dublin, at 6pm

    Alan Hally, PhD Post-doctoral researcher at Météo-France, Toulouse"

    Thought it might be of interest to some people on here.

    More details on the Irish Meteorological Society website: irishmetsociety.org

    Did anyone go to this?


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    Storm 10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Can anyone tell me why ME presenters dress like they are going to a ball, the cost of clothes must be crazy when you look at other station presenters who dress casual , what the he'll is the point of dressing up its just a weather forecast no one is looking at you


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    #435
    red_bairn
    Registered Users Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    sunnyagain wrote:
    Did anyone go to this?


    I know somebody who went to this.


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    #436
    joujoujou
    Registered Users Posts: 13,499 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    Storm 10 wrote: »
    [...] its just a weather forecast no one is looking at you
    They want to be looked at. :p


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    #437
    sunnyagain
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭sunnyagain


    Storm 10 wrote: »
    Can anyone tell me why ME presenters dress like they are going to a ball, the cost of clothes must be crazy when you look at other station presenters who dress casual , what the he'll is the point of dressing up its just a weather forecast no one is looking at you

    I suspect that it is a decision of RTE, probably the Weather Producer and the wardrobe department.

    I doubt if the Met people have much say in the matter.


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    Joe Public
    Registered Users Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭Joe Public


    Storm 10 wrote: »
    Can anyone tell me why ME presenters dress like they are going to a ball, the cost of clothes must be crazy when you look at other station presenters who dress casual , what the he'll is the point of dressing up its just a weather forecast no one is looking at you

    I guess 99% of people do notice what they are wearing and the presenters like looking well. Maybe RTE, or Met eireann, need to reintroduce a few male weather presenters on TV to help bring down the fashion a little :)


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    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Very slip shod again just now - "Sunday will be the cooler of the two" (weekend days) says she, up comes the end of forecast 5 days graphic showing Saturday at 5 c and Sunday at 8 c.


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Where is it zooming in on? 1700 08/01/15
    bmWbylp.png?1


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    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭tanko


    I'd just like to say thanks very much to met Éireann for their rubbish forecasts yesterday afternoon. So much for it being dry this morning and rain spreading west in the afternoon. 9am must be in the afternoon now. Muppets.


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    #442
    Storm 10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,872 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Torrential rain here in Galway did not expect this, roof in company where I work could not take the rain and its pouring into the premises. They gave rain for the North and North West but the radar shows far more of the Country getting heavy rain in fact parts of the North are not getting rain, :mad::mad:


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    Harps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    Forecast at nine last night said 'Rain spreading from the west early on and to all areas by afternoon'. Six One said 'Rain in the west early on spreading across the country', One o'clock said 'An improvement first thing tomorrow followed by heavy rain pushing in from the atlantic.' All three showed graphics with heavy rain in the west in the morning and everywhere in the afternoon. Don't know how much clearer they can make it...


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    Joe Public
    Registered Users Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭Joe Public


    I got caught out this morning as I wasn't expecting rain until this afternoon, the rainfall radar did look a bit ominous ok but I was still hopeful going on the forecasts.


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    #445
    Lumi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Lumi


    Just spotted this
    Historical data sets containing hourly, daily and monthly climate data from Met Eireann Synoptic stations are now freely available to download by completing this form http://www.met.ie/climate-request/ .


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    #446
    abaddon_ire
    Registered Users Posts: 73 ✭✭abaddon_ire


    Just a curious, but is there anywhere that explains the symbols ME use on their website maps? Most are straightforward, but some are obscure.


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    #447
    jim-mcdee
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭jim-mcdee


    Does anybody else think Met are going a bit mental on the weather warnings? A few drops of rain and a sprinkling of snow and there is a new status 'insert colour here' weather warning? FFS its winter. Save the weather warnings for actual bad weather. And read Peter and the wolf.


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    #448
    Joe Public
    Registered Users Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭Joe Public


    jim-mcdee wrote: »
    Does anybody else think Met are going a bit mental on the weather warnings? A few drops of rain and a sprinkling of snow and there is a new status 'insert colour here' weather warning? FFS its winter. Save the weather warnings for actual bad weather. And read Peter and the wolf.

    No!

    Met Eireann have yellow warnings for wind and snow
    MTC is on bold italics so that's at least a yellow
    Most of the UK is on the same yellow warning.

    Some places will get a lash of bad weather so the warning is out.


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    #449
    tphase
    Registered Users Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭tphase


    Lumi wrote: »
    Just spotted this
    Historical data sets containing hourly, daily and monthly climate data from Met Eireann Synoptic stations are now freely available to download by completing this form http://www.met.ie/climate-request/ .
    pity there's a limit on how far back the records go...


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    #450
    Lumi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Lumi


    tphase wrote: »
    pity there's a limit on how far back the records go...
    I have all of the historical records for Galway in excel/PDF form if you'd like a copy?


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    #451
    tphase
    Registered Users Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭tphase


    Lumi wrote: »
    I have all of the historical records for Galway in excel/PDF form if you'd like a copy?
    Thanks Lumi, I have access to data. I'm just wondering why they would put time limit on how far back you can go. Possibly this is just the first step in the process and eventually all historical data will become freely available


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