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Met Eireann Weather Forecasting accuracy Ireland

Morpheus · 2019-01-30 09:25:32

Couple of questions. Would met eireann have limited equipment? Should there be more investment? I recall reading somewhere that they rely on a lot of input from amateur weather stations as well as a limited number of not so modern weather stations dotted in a couple of places around the country? Do they need more weather…

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30-01-2019 10:25am

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Morpheus

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Couple of questions.

Would met eireann have limited equipment?

Should there be more investment?

I recall reading somewhere that they rely on a lot of input from amateur weather stations as well as a limited number of not so modern weather stations dotted in a couple of places around the country?

Do they need more weather stations and technology? If so and if you were able to kit Met.ie out with state of the art tech - what would you buy and set up and where?

Cheers!

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#2 30-01-2019 11:12am
donal.hunt

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This is what they have right now:

5 manned weather stations
20 fully automatic weather stations
60 climate stations
500 rainfall stations

The last two are supported by volunteers and state agencies.

source: https://www.met.ie/climate/the-national-observing-network/

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