THE PUBLIC COMPLAINED to Met \u00c9ireann about wildly differing temperature forecasts during the summer\u2019s first heatwave, including one that gave a 10-degree difference for the same town.<\/p>\n
A weather watcher checking conditions in June was told it would be 26 degrees and sunny when they searched for \u2018Tralee, Co Kerry.\u2019<\/p>\n
However, entering only \u2018Tralee\u2019 produced a forecast of just 16 degrees and cloudy conditions on the same day.<\/p>\n
In response, Met \u00c9ireann said its regional forecast at the time was predicting highs of between 26 and 31 degrees right across Munster.<\/p>\n
The weather service suspected the lower temperature reading was an error or old data that was held on the user\u2019s device.<\/p>\n
Another person in Cork complained that Met \u00c9ireann\u2019s website was routinely showing temperatures of only 15 or 16 degrees while other forecasts were suggesting highs of 25 to 27 degrees.<\/p>\n
They said the problem had persisted for months and claimed the website was displaying almost identical temperatures \u201cday and night\u201d despite much warmer conditions.<\/p>\n
A separate complaint asked whether they would be better off deleting the Met \u00c9ireann app altogether after it predicted a less than five per cent chance of rain only for heavy rain to fall while they were cutting their grass.<\/p>\n
They asked whether AccuWeather or \u201cthe guy in Carlow\u201d might be more reliable.<\/p>\n
Another complained of the lack of a wind warning on a blustery day in June saying they\u2019d seen calmer days in November and that it was \u201cnot good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Met \u00c9ireann response said: \u201cWhile unseasonably breezy, the wind is not forecast to reach levels considered strong enough to trigger weather warnings.\u201d<\/p>\n
One person was unhappy with the colours the meteorological service used for recording how hot it was.<\/p>\n
They said nine degrees was marked yellow which was \u201cnot warm\u201d and that anything below 18 degrees should be a shade of blue.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been very confusing to understand the weather at a glance since the temperature colours changed some time last year,\u201d said their message.<\/p>\n
In response, Met \u00c9ireann said the colour scheme used had been changed in 2022 but that they would be happy to review the feedback.<\/p>\n
Another lamented the fact that one page of the Met \u00c9ireann app contained no fewer than five spelling errors.
They wrote: \u201cNot the end of the world I know but should be spell checked at least.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Met \u00c9ireann response said: \u201cApologies for the spelling errors in the Farming Commentary issued yesterday, it has since been updated to fix those on the app and on our website.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE PUBLIC COMPLAINED to Met \u00c9ireann about wildly differing temperature forecasts during the summer\u2019s first heatwave, including one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,201055,80693,6,270830,19,17,11,12,15,16,5602,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-640314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-foi","tag-forecasting","tag-headlines","tag-hot-and-cold","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-met-eireann","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117105851664760519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}