{"id":641280,"date":"2026-08-17T05:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/641280\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T05:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:56:18","slug":"person-caught-in-downpour-while-cutting-the-grass-among-complaints-to-met-eireann-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/641280\/","title":{"rendered":"Person caught in downpour while cutting the grass among complaints to Met \u00c9ireann \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The public complained to Met \u00c9ireann<\/a> about wildly differing temperature forecasts during the summer\u2019s first heatwave, including one that apparently gave a ten-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 \u201cTralee, Co Kerry<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, entering only \u201cTralee\u201d 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<\/a> 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

In a separate complaint, a person asked whether they would be better off deleting the Met \u00c9ireann app after it predicted a less-than 5 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 \u2013 a reference to meteorological commentator Alan O\u2019Reilly, known as Carlow Weather \u2013 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, adding 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 they would be happy to review the feedback.<\/p>\n

Another lamented the fact that one page of the Met \u00c9ireann app contained 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":641281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5602,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-641280","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-headlines","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\/117109311698121025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641280","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=641280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}