Ireland Regional Weather Chat

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Still have had a number of showers rattling through here,

[Downburst]

Checking Met.ie website the predictable in "much of the country" for tonight or for tomorrow "in many parts" of the country in the forecast. how they get away with the general forecast? No competition and no one measures their performance. I know they have the tools to give a more accurate local forcast, or attempt one, but they don't. A lot in my experience depends on who writes the forecast, I reckon there must be a team as sometimes it's far more informative for a given type of weather than others, I'm not comparing apples and oranges.

 

Anyway if I lived in Kerry or Donegal what use is "A cold start for much of the country on Thursday with more wintry showers in many areas" - then they go on to mention the wind at great length, just a filler as it's always windy.

 

Rant over

[Sperrin]

Met.ie continually have crap forecasts online, bit of a joke from a publicly funded body.

[Sparky72]

Ok so I'm watching the radar and figuring it's just not gonna happen for me tonight

[Weegaz]

Snow starting to turn slushy now on the drive, temp must be increasing slight!!

Anyone think we'll get much overnight?

[BIG LAD]

couple of heavy showers there with proper big flakes. fair covering now and stars out so hopelfully will freeze up.

[mountain shadow]

Cheer up. Will be plenty overnight. Showers still coming in from the north West.

[Rocheydub]

Checking Met.ie website the predictable in "much of the country" for tonight or for tomorrow "in many parts" of the country in the forecast. how they get away with the general forecast? No competition and no one measures their performance. I know they have the tools to give a more accurate local forcast, or attempt one, but they don't. A lot in my experience depends on who writes the forecast, I reckon there must be a team as sometimes it's far more informative for a given type of weather than others, I'm not comparing apples and oranges.

 

Anyway if I lived in Kerry or Donegal what use is "A cold start for much of the country on Thursday with more wintry showers in many areas" - then they go on to mention the wind at great length, just a filler as it's always windy.

 

Rant over

 

 

Met.ie continually have crap forecasts online, bit of a joke from a publicly funded body.

What else do you expect? This is an evolving situation and impossible to nail down to local stuff. There will be periods of heavier showers country wide more common in the NW, where there will be some larger accumulations and it will be very cold tomorrow in the strong wind.

You're knowledge of meteorology is poor if you're slating Met Eireann in this set up. This is a perfect forecast for this set up.

Edited January 28, 2015 by Rocheydub

[be cause]

you up in Altmore Be cause?

sorry Pom .. I meant Galbally not Cappagh .. last time I was up to Altmore was to retrieve my then girlfriend's stolen car .. police don't attend to such things in the area :)

[ronan]

Big rattle of thunder there! No lighting though. Wish things would hurry up and pepp up!

[Sparky72]

Ha ha ha I saw lightning no thunder!

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Would love a bit of lightening you jammy gits, swap you all my snow for it

[Rocheydub]

I'd swap all of my 7 minutes of sleet shower for either of your snow or thunder :-)

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

I'd swap all of my 7 minutes of sleet shower for either of your snow or thunder :-)

done no wait hang on...

[ronan]

First thing I done was check the lightning app. Nothing except across the water.

Edited January 28, 2015 by ronan

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

The sky is getting that nice orange look again

[Will Padz]

Wow wind gust blew snow off neighbours roof..... Huge cloud..... Hammering it down.....

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

The girlfriend reporting thunder and lightning in Buncrana, blizzard conditions again here wind is rising I expect some decent drifts in the morning

[Juuyoku]

Absolutely stained glass window all happening here

[ronan]

Showers increasing to North West. Could just miss.me depending the track they take.

[BIG LAD]

have a couple of cms here now. road and pavements are a slushy mess. need the sky to clear for a while to get temps down to freezing and stop any thaw.

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

You swearing again juuyoko

[SnowJon]

snow starting to lie here now in Bangor 

[Juuyoku]

You swearing again juuyoko

I spelt the F word with an E instead of U. Still is a bad word it seems .

[Downburst]

What else do you expect? This is an evolving situation and impossible to nail down to local stuff. There will be periods of heavier showers country wide more common in the NW, where there will be some larger accumulations and it will be very cold tomorrow in the strong wind.

You're knowledge of meteorology is poor if you're slating Met Eireann in this set up. This is a perfect forecast for this set up.

 LOL, look I understand that. I don't think it's rationale to judge our knowledge based on our views of the bland non descriptive or committed forecasts from met.ie. All the charts show no snow in the far south, why not say that clearly, whats with "Much of the country"? Don't you see the irony in the fact you've been more descriptive in your "forecast" than met.ie have in theirs. I find the website written forecast generally very poor, including today.