This message has been edited - 15-aug-2012 @ 09:18

Originally posted by Young Hopper:
Where are you getting this forecast?I am reading Met.ie website and also looking at their online 5 day forecast which is extremely accurate. The vast majority of the country will be getting nothing more than strong winds tomorrow according to that.

Originally posted by tones67:
You may want to look again, couple of inches over most of country by lunch time tomorrow

Originally posted by Young Hopper:

Well the last time I looked a couple of inches of rain does not equate to a hurricane.
Or maybe I am wrong.

Originally posted by cussler:
Met Eireann are no better. No doubt tomorrow will be wet and windy. Boo fcuking hoo. But hey let's not waste an opportunity to scare the sh1t out of everyone.

Originally posted by Hitch:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0814/weather.html

Originally posted by Larkin:
And I'm going to a f@#~king wedding! I'd rather be going to court. All this rain will only make the day worse than expected. I detest weddings, absolutely detest the f@#~king things.

Originally posted by Young Hopper:

Well the last time I looked a couple of inches of rain does not equate to a hurricane.
Or maybe I am wrong.

Originally posted by Young Hopper:
I stand by what I said-a couple of inches of rain is not a hurricane.
Strong winds do not constitute a hurricane.Take a closer examination at Met Eireann's own forecasts and you will see that the country is expecting heavy rain and relatively strong winds for about 20% of the country, with non exceptional winds elsewhere. Am I a meteorologist? No.
Can I predict the future? No.
Can I process information presented to me in various formats? Yes.
Do I take misleadiing headlines at face value without carefully reading the article and researching what it is based on? No. Gimp.

Originally posted by Bagger Vance:
Ha I thought I was just being a misery guts. Detest isn't a strong enough word there Larkin.

Originally posted by JHume:
Give that man a Mars bar.This 'weather alert' is plying some pile of horse manure. What it should have said was it's going to be wet and windy in Dublin and Cork and areas in between.Here's what Irish Weatheronline has to say: "Southern Munster and eastern parts of Leinster are most at risk of experiencing flooding and wind damage. The risk for other parts of the country remains moderate and caution is advised."Moderate risk, but it has been presented like some kind of Armageddon. The sun is shining, the sky is blue and it's a beautiful morning here in Donegal.And two inches of rain? Don't make me laugh. 55mm of rain fell at Malin Head on a day last month, and there was nary a mention of it before or afterwards.

Originally posted by Young Hopper:
The point is this;Met Eireann provide forecasts in various formats. I am in midlands. I could clearly tell last night that it was going to be persistently raining from about 9/10am throughout the day. Relatively light at first and getting heavier in late afternoon.
I could also tell that winds were going to be light enough. And getting a little stronger for a few hours from about 6pm. Light again tonight. This is playing out exactly as their forecasts predicted. So all the misleading headlines and alerts are overly dramatic. If there are hurricane conditions expected in small pockets of the country then tell us that but highlight where. I have already encountered about 4 elderly people in my area awfully worried about a hurricane tonight. Are Met Eireann in competition and feeling the need to dramatise their forecasts to attract attention or something? Hurricane my arse as Jim Royle would say.

Originally posted by Larkin:
And I'm going to a f@#~king wedding! I'd rather be going to court. All this rain will only make the day worse than expected. I detest weddings, absolutely detest the f@#~king things.