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Are these Weather warnings overblown?

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  • #32
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,407 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Should stop naming bad days and calling storms.


  • #33
    alta stare
    Registered Users Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭alta stare


    The problem isnt the issue of warnings per say, the problem is people either not reading the warnings or misinterpreting exactly what is due to hit.

    One big issue i see on Boards is the posters who act as if the apocalypse has arrived when in fact its just a passing shower or wind event. This drives on the sensationalist reporting of what is supposedly happening across the country. People have lost all sense of what bad weather is.


  • #34
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    The parameters for a weather warning seem to be much lower than years ago.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #35
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,453 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Feisar wrote: »
    The parameters for a weather warning seem to be much lower than years ago.

    They never warned us about the Night of the Big Wind.


  • #36
    Wheres Me Jumper?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Wheres Me Jumper?


    alta stare wrote: »
    The problem isnt the issue of warnings per say, the problem is people either not reading the warnings or misinterpreting exactly what is due to hit.

    One big issue i see on Boards is the posters who act as if the apocalypse has arrived when in fact its just a passing shower or wind event. This drives on the sensationalist reporting of what is supposedly happening across the country. People have lost all sense of what bad weather is.

    thank you. i'm not going insane after all.


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  • #37
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    The last time there was a thread complaining about weather warnings was a couple of months ago. On the same day they posted the thread this was in the news.
    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/swiss-tourist-dies-after-caravan-blown-off-cliff-in-galway-870002.html


  • #38
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,453 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    The last time there was a thread complaining about weather warnings was a couple of months ago. On the same day they posted the thread this was in the news.
    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/swiss-tourist-dies-after-caravan-blown-off-cliff-in-galway-870002.html

    Before that it was the big snow, which cause havoc. People on Boards dismissed it at the start as a non event.


  • #39
    Wheres Me Jumper?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Wheres Me Jumper?


    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    The last time there was a thread complaining about weather warnings was a couple of months ago. On the same day they posted the thread this was in the news.
    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/swiss-tourist-dies-after-caravan-blown-off-cliff-in-galway-870002.html

    very sad and sincere condolences to the lady's family, but we need a little perspective here.
    how many people die on our roads every week? should we all refrain from driving? of course not.


  • #40
    green123
    Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭green123


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    Indeed they are overblown. A yellow or an orange warning for every gust. Conspiracy theorist in me says Met Eireann have been given instructions to play up the bad weather in order to make impending carbon taxes more palatable

    They are also exaggerating things to make themselves seem more relevant and important.


  • #41
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,177 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    green123 wrote: »
    They are also exaggerating things to make themselves seem more relevant and important.


    Feeling the pressure from http://yr.no perhaps?


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  • #42
    Wheres Me Jumper?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Wheres Me Jumper?


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Before that it was the big snow, which cause havoc. People on Boards dismissed it at the start as a non event.

    i recall the whole country went mad buying sliced pan.
    the weather was very bad in many parts, but quite manageable in others, yet they shut the whole country down. no need imo.


  • #43
    alta stare
    Registered Users Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭alta stare


    The media dont help either. Then theres social media. People have lost the ability to think for themselves. I see my mother gets suckered in by facebook posts about the impending doom everytime there is a chance of a bit of wind rain snow etc.... If my mother and people alike actually took time to read a weather report they would usually see the event wont be as bad as they have been told.

    I always go to the weather section here and follow the postings of MT, Meteroite, Gaoth Laidor (apologies if i misspelt them) i find they are usually accurate in their outlook.


  • #44
    Sycamore Tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Sycamore Tree


    I dont think the weather warnings are overblown. MetE are usually spot on.

    However I think the warnings will lose their effectiveness as time goes by. They are so frequent and even localised that people will just decide themselves or completely ignore them. People in Galway often tell me they ignore them now.

    That said, I was out and about during Ali with trees falling all around me so I will never take the weather for granted.


  • #45
    Wheeliebin30
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Wheeliebin30


    You’re billy big balls until a tree falls on your car and you’re dead.

    Then the government will get blamed.


  • #46
    STB.
    Registered Users Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭STB.


    Wheres Me Jumper? wrote: »
    i recall the whole country went mad buying sliced pan.
    the weather was very bad in many parts, but quite manageable in others, yet they shut the whole country down. no need imo.


    Another spanner who cannot understand how weather forecasting works.

    Just because it didn't hit the few square metres you occupy you think its an over reaction. Besides the few gobshítes who ignore any warnings, the warnings are generally for the preservation of society. Be it signalling potentially power outages to a tree coming down on you because you are unnecessarily on the road or thinking of going for a swim.

    Then there are the unscrupulous employers who expect you to risk life and limb no matter what the weather.

    Until you devise an early warning system for your area, we will continue to have I'm alright jack, don't know what all the fuss is whataboutery.


  • #47
    Wheres Me Jumper?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Wheres Me Jumper?


    Feisar wrote: »
    The parameters for a weather warning seem to be much lower than years ago.

    the snowflake effect?


  • #48
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users Posts: 14,991 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Feisar wrote: »
    The parameters for a weather warning seem to be much lower than years ago.

    There were no weather warnings years ago.

    You were told there would be winds of a certain force based on a victorian measurement system or x inches of rain.

    No one knew what it was actually expected to be like.

    Coloured warning first appeared this decade and I'd say it's only this century that the switched from using the Beaufort scale to Km/ph for wind speed.


  • #49
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I agree. I’m in Letterkenny and while we had a wet and windy day it was far from stormy. I didn’t even bother putting the bins into the garage and they’re still standing and contents intact.


  • #50
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,781 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    This is a dangerous system causing squals and lots of surface water locally for a couple of hours at a time.

    In Dublin at 6pm the wind was gusting 13kph, by 7pm it was howling at over 100 kph with driving rain. Risky for flying debris, high-sided trucks and aqua-planing cars, especially with all the festive outdoor activities that take place this weekend

    The warnings are tied to the science, and they're not overblown, they are sensibly vigilant. If your bins didnt blow over in Donegal, isnt that a good thing, if you had to go and fetch them in Sligo you'd be complaining Eoghan Murphy should resign.


  • #51
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,279 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    I’m convinced that Met eireann get a bonus every time they issue these warnings.


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  • #52
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭buried


    Meteorologists are the new rock stars in this modern wanky world

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • #53
    Wheres Me Jumper?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Wheres Me Jumper?


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    I’m convinced that Met eireann get a bonus every time they issue these warnings.

    and the girls get to appear on Tubs, or d'Arcy.
    Oh the life of a meteorologist isn't what is used to be




    it's all champagne, caviar, and parties now!


  • #54
    rat catcher
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭rat catcher


    Well bloody tile from neighboring house just broke my car window in Drogheda!
    So yes its bloody windy!


  • #55
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Completely over the top. It’s a bit windy for sure, but the weather nerds love to make it seem like the world is about to end. Just out of the Aviva stadium and there was a big crowd there.


  • #56
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    A 9-year-old girl was rushed to hospital in Cork earlier today after being struck by a tree during Storm Deirdre.
    If warnings were noted, perhaps cycling near the Marina in Cork wouldn't have seemed like such a good idea.


  • #57
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,150 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Completely over the top. It’s a bit windy for sure, but the weather nerds love to make it seem like the world is about to end. Just out of the Aviva stadium and there was a big crowd there.

    That's why Dublin and a few other counties were down graded to yellow warning earlier on!


  • #58
    Sycamore Tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Sycamore Tree


    Dangelo Helpless Thundercloud wrote: »
    A 9-year-old girl was rushed to hospital in Cork earlier today after being struck by a tree during Storm Deirdre.
    If warnings were noted, perhaps cycling near the Marina in Cork wouldn't have seemed like such a good idea.

    I hate when people use isolated incidents involving injuries or fatalities to prove a point and shut down a discussion. It's ghoulish.


  • #59
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    This thread is getting more and more ridiculous.


  • #60
    martingriff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,679 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Sycamore Tree wrote: »
    I hate when people use isolated incidents involving injuries or fatalities to prove a point and shut down a discussion. It's ghoulish.

    I think there point is well made as they were not over blown warnings. Same with the post on the roof tile. Or would you like us just to all agree yes there over blown to make you happy


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  • #61
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Wheres Me Jumper? wrote: »
    and the girls get to appear on Tubs, or d'Arcy.
    Oh the life of a meteorologist isn't what is used to be




    it's all champagne, caviar, and parties now!

    They should be smoking pipes with leather patches sewn onto the elbows of their sports jackets not dancing with the stars


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