Met Eirrean

UKMO playing it a little too cool?

The Met Office are playing it cool about issuing a warning for the forecast strong winds associated with low Gudrun later this week. Met...

Friday’s low

Nothing particularly unusual about Friday’s low for May. The ECMWF hires model has it’s minimum central pressure at around 970 hPa at midnight on...

Interesting contrast between UKMO and Met Eireann

I applaud Met Eireann’s efforts in trying to unify the weather forecast across the whole of Ireland, after all the weather (and Covid-19) doesn’t...

A tricky question

I wonder how far Met Eireann would get if they treated the people who lived in countries Mayo or Donegal like the Met Office treat the people who live in the north and west of Scotland?

Don’t mention the wind, I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it

Better late than never the Irish have now woken up and decided to issue an orange alert for storm Jorge.

Storm naming game gets even more farcical

The Spanish Met Service AEMET have surprised everyone in naming this weekend’s low storm Jorge, which as far as I can see won’t impact Spain with much in the way of severe weather at all.

Early warning of another windy Saturday

Somethings brewing this weekend and Saturday looks likely to be a very windy day especially across Ireland.

Met Office conjure up an amber alert for Sunday!

Met Office salve their own conscience about naming storm Ciara by conjuring up an amber warning for Sunday

Met Office get in first to name storm Ciara

The Met Office are obviously flexing their supercomputer muscles and feel confident enough to nip in ahead of Met Eireann for once.

Strong winds but which are they blowing?

Thursday is shaping up to be an interesting day with all the NWP models at sixes and sevens about exactly what track low Clara is taking

Warning systems – which is the most helpful?

I’m quite sure that in the near future the warnings system will be run by computers interrogating mesoscale NWP models and issuing warnings automatically using a GIS based system.