Not pointless. If you saw the state of the footpaths around where I live you’d understand. Haven’t been able to walk around for a week as it wont thaw. Also many of us now are unable to afford to heat our homes properly so prolonged cold warrants a warning more than it did a few years ago.
And there’s a point to you making this post??
> STATUS ORANGE – Weather Warning – Be PreparedThis category of ORANGE level weather warnings is for weather conditions which have the capacity to impact significantly on people in the affected areas. The issue of an Orange level weather warning implies that all recipients in the affected areas should prepare themselves in an appropriate way for the anticipated conditions.
It’s not pointless. They are telling you to prepare appropriately for the conditions, that’s it.
There’s a difference from it being cold and the roads/footpaths being covered in ice.
Plenty of people driving too fast down my way and the road is like oiled glass in parts, they should be taking heed but aren’t.
They’re not just throwing random colours out there
This is such an inane thing to complain about, did you need to hit a moaning quota or something?
I agree it’s pointless that Met Éireann would warn people about extremely cold weather. What are they thinking
First time in a long time, the south’s more orange than the north
I thought we were beyond complaining about the alerts. It was done to death last year, and the year before that, and and…
If they didn’t warn us, you’d be on here giving out about how you slipped on the foot path like the poor fella on RTE news years back.
Its outrages is what it is!
The nerve of Met Éireann reporting on the weather…
Clown..
Their role is to inform us of the weather. That is literally what they’re doing with this warning.
Jesus, people can really make a huff about nothing.
Weather warnings, alerts and updates aren’t just for you sat at home and thinking I better put on an extra layer. They’re for people across the country who work outside, going out to sea or are making travel arrangements.
Take your head out of your arse
So the weather folks shouldn’t tell us about the weather, got it 👍
It’s embarrassing to see such hysteria in the media over a bit of frost and black ice after almost every major road in the country has been well gritted.
What exactly, and I mean EXACTLY, do you want met eireann to do if NOT report on the weather
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You’d be bloody moaning if they didn’t give an orange warning.
Most people will know, but Donegal have to be informed not to venture anywhere else.
how is that pointless
How dare they do their job!
The moaning about Met Eireann doing its job isn’t new but it seems to have pick up a bit recently.
For instance, this from DCU prof and Sindo columnist Eoin O’Malley: https://mobile.twitter.com/AnMailleach/status/1602583061144674305
Not pointless. If you saw the state of the footpaths around where I live you’d understand. Haven’t been able to walk around for a week as it wont thaw. Also many of us now are unable to afford to heat our homes properly so prolonged cold warrants a warning more than it did a few years ago.
And there’s a point to you making this post??
> STATUS ORANGE – Weather Warning – Be PreparedThis category of ORANGE level weather warnings is for weather conditions which have the capacity to impact significantly on people in the affected areas. The issue of an Orange level weather warning implies that all recipients in the affected areas should prepare themselves in an appropriate way for the anticipated conditions.
It’s not pointless. They are telling you to prepare appropriately for the conditions, that’s it.
There’s a difference from it being cold and the roads/footpaths being covered in ice.
Plenty of people driving too fast down my way and the road is like oiled glass in parts, they should be taking heed but aren’t.
https://www.met.ie/met-eireann-warning-system-explained
They’re not just throwing random colours out there
This is such an inane thing to complain about, did you need to hit a moaning quota or something?
I agree it’s pointless that Met Éireann would warn people about extremely cold weather. What are they thinking
First time in a long time, the south’s more orange than the north
I thought we were beyond complaining about the alerts. It was done to death last year, and the year before that, and and…
If they didn’t warn us, you’d be on here giving out about how you slipped on the foot path like the poor fella on RTE news years back.
Its outrages is what it is!
The nerve of Met Éireann reporting on the weather…
Clown..
Their role is to inform us of the weather. That is literally what they’re doing with this warning.
Jesus, people can really make a huff about nothing.
Weather warnings, alerts and updates aren’t just for you sat at home and thinking I better put on an extra layer. They’re for people across the country who work outside, going out to sea or are making travel arrangements.
Take your head out of your arse
So the weather folks shouldn’t tell us about the weather, got it 👍
It’s embarrassing to see such hysteria in the media over a bit of frost and black ice after almost every major road in the country has been well gritted.
What exactly, and I mean EXACTLY, do you want met eireann to do if NOT report on the weather