New Met Éireann Website (beta)

silverharp · 27-05-2018 11:24am

im not sure about their hourly slide along, if gives a false sense of certainty ,for example today im looking for a bright 2 to 3 hour slot today to do some outdoor stuff and every time i check it gives something different. On such a day i'd prefer a general forecast and the weather radar would give me a sense of whats coming.

JCX BXC · 27-05-2018 11:30am

silverharp wrote: »

im not sure about their hourly slide along, if gives a false sense of certainty ,for example today im looking for a bright 2 to 3 hour slot today to do some outdoor stuff and every time i check it gives something different. On such a day i'd prefer a general forecast and the weather radar would give me a sense of whats coming.

Don't take it as accurate either, I was promised sun yesterday 11-1, then 3-4.....no sun until after 6.

Joe Public · 27-05-2018 12:32pm

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

I have to say - having waited a while - that the old android app was much more user friendly.
I prefer the old radar. I don't see the point in 5 minute intervals. It is a pain in the ass to use the new app.

Edit: Any idea why the Europe visible satellite images don't show the whole of Spain, Italy, etc
It would seem a necessary thing with many people going on holiday there.

Just forget about the new site and app.
Bookmark this link on your phone's browser and work from there
archive.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

lolie · 27-05-2018 12:36pm

Joe Public wrote: »

Just forget about the new site and app.
Bookmark this link on your phone's browser and work from there
archive.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

Was just about to post asking if anyone had a link to that radar.
Cheers.

silverharp · 27-05-2018 1:23pm

Joe Public wrote: »

Just forget about the new site and app.
Bookmark this link on your phone's browser and work from there
archive.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

tis a thing of beauty :pac:

sryanbruen · 30-05-2018 6:19pm

Met Éireann's site has me set as Derry every time I go into it now.

HappyDaze007 · 31-05-2018 7:55am

New website is garbage... really is a step back when it comes to user friendliness..
Oh where is the 3 hour forecast gone..

Don’t ever shut the old website down... so much better

Comhrá · 31-05-2018 10:07am

HappyDaze007 wrote: »

New website is garbage... really is a step back when it comes to user friendliness..
Oh where is the 3 hour forecast gone..

Don’t ever shut the old website down... so much better

How true. I have totally given up on that new website. Using the old one, though outdated, is so much easier and user-friendly.

JCX BXC · 31-05-2018 4:11pm

Well, something's not right here!

Comhrá · 31-05-2018 9:24pm

The sooner that ME website goes the way of those electronic voting machines from way back, the better. :pac:

JCX BXC · 31-05-2018 9:26pm

Comhra wrote: »

The sooner that ME website goes the way of those electronic voting machines from way back, the better. :pac:

I actually quite like it.

SleetAndSnow · 31-05-2018 9:28pm

I do prefer the new site, looks more modern and fresh too me and still has all the same info that I used on the old one but easier for me to find. Oh well I am a minority.

Joe Public · 01-06-2018 10:57am

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

I do prefer the new site, looks more modern and fresh too me and still has all the same info that I used on the old one but easier for me to find. Oh well I am a minority.

Today is June 1st, not April 1st

SleetAndSnow · 01-06-2018 11:09am

Joe Public wrote: »

Today is June 1st, not April 1st

I realised , shocker that I have a different opinion then other people

my3cents · 01-06-2018 11:37am

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

I realised , shocker that I have a different opinion then other people

I also like it as it works for me fine on a PC, the forecasts have been very accurate recently but thats my big problem with the site the forecasts are so granular they can't be right all the time.

[Deleted User] · 01-06-2018 11:55am

Might not be the right place to ask but is there a map of weather stations available. Looking at the locations there's none mentioned for Clones now leaving a pretty big area of north Leinster and south Ulster with no data at all.

Gaoth Laidir · 02-06-2018 8:34am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Might not be the right place to ask but is there a map of weather stations available. Looking at the locations there's none mentioned for Clones now leaving a pretty big area of north Leinster and south Ulster with no data at all.

Clones closed in 2008. There have been no reports from there since then. It was replaced by Ballyhaise.

All the station locations are available on a click able map on the Current Observations page.

Artane2002 · 08-06-2018 6:32pm

I think I know why the new website sets our default station to some random place! I had mine set to Dublin but I clicked on Galway on the rainfall radar to zoom in on a thunderstorm. When I did it, my default station was immediately set to Galway and a circle appeared over the area that I clicked to zoom in.

Sorry if someone else said this, I haven't been following this thread.

Jpmarn · 08-06-2018 11:30pm

Today with the thunderstorms going around I love that they included lightening sferics in the rainfall radar on the new site. But it only shows the last 90 minutes of rainfall activity as appose to 6 hours on the old site archive.met.ie.

kavanagh_h · 11-06-2018 10:16pm

Not sure where to post this but if anyone is missing the old met eireann rainfall radar there is another app called weather&radar that is similar. Its just as good. Im notvhappy with the new radar in the met app.

Tigerandahalf · 11-06-2018 10:43pm

kavanagh_h wrote: »

Not sure where to post this but if anyone is missing the old met eireann rainfall radar there is another app called weather&radar that is similar. Its just as good. Im notvhappy with the new radar in the met app.

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

igCorcaigh · 11-06-2018 10:47pm

Artane2002 wrote: »

I think I know why the new website sets our default station to some random place! I had mine set to Dublin but I clicked on Galway on the rainfall radar to zoom in on a thunderstorm. When I did it, my default station was immediately set to Galway and a circle appeared over the area that I clicked to zoom in.

Sorry if someone else said this, I haven't been following this thread.

Mine always resets to Dublin.

Zxthinger · 12-06-2018 12:39am

I don't like it. It's too much of an overhaul. From the mobile it's poor

Graces7 · 12-06-2018 8:07am

I hated it at first and went back to the old page, but getting used to it now.

Ardrageen · 12-06-2018 8:08am

It works fine on my computer but the rainfall radar/forcast do not work on my phone. Maybe my phone is too old?

DX85 · 12-06-2018 10:33am

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my3cents · 13-06-2018 2:53pm

Are we going to be bombarded with black crosses?

Wanderer78 · 13-06-2018 6:39pm

my3cents wrote: »

Are we going to be bombarded with black crosses?

ninja stars, take cover!

my3cents · 14-06-2018 9:56am

Two genuine points here....

Firstly the national warnings. I have to go looking for them or I miss them. They were far better placed and more obvious on the old site.

Secondly the weekly weather rainfall graphic, I need to double check this but their doesn't seem to be any consistency in the scale. One day 0.1mm seems to be shown as one height and the following day it seems to be higher. Currently I can see 0.2 mm and 0.3 mm side by side and the scale is all wrong as the 0.2 mm is 3 units high and the 0.3 mm is 4 units high.

my3cents · 25-06-2018 9:18am

Another anomaly that doesn't add up. There's a decent amount of rainfall forecast for my chosen area next Sunday (5mm in total)as seen when I scroll across the forecast on the home page, yet when I look at the rainfall forecast for that day and step through it no rain shows up.

New Met Éireann Website (beta)

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