Amid all the talk of weather warnings, wildfires and parched earth across Europe, there was a gentle drizzle falling on the Céide Fields in north Mayo on a
With a hosepipe ban set to come into effect from Friday for the whole of the State, households with outdoor space might be wondering how they should mind
Temperatures up to 24 degrees are forecast on Tuesday with sunny spells gradually increasing in the afternoon after a cloudy start to the day. But forecasters
After a discussion last week about naming storms, I wrote to the UK Met Office suggesting that we start naming heatwaves, similar to the way we name storms. I got this reply
Thank you for your email and for sharing your suggestion.
We appreciate your idea of assigning names to significant heat events in a similar way to our named storm system. The Met Office currently names storms as part of a joint initiative with Met Éireann and KNMI to help communicate the potential impacts of high-impact weather. Heatwaves are communicated through forecasts, weather warnings where appropriate, and Heat-Health Alerts issued by the UK Health Security Agency and Met Office. We value public feedback on how weather information is communicated and have passed your suggestion to the relevant team for consideration. Thank you for taking the time to contact us.
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Germans braced for sweltering conditions on Saturday as a heatwave linked to dozens of deaths in western Europe was expected to move east after temperatures
United Nations (UN) climate change executive secretary Simon Stiell has said the heatwave across Europe this week was due to climate change and there would be
Ireland’s hottest May day would not have happened without human-caused climate change, scientists who studied last month’s record-breaking temperatures have
Calling all Irish weather and climate enthusiasts!
Just a quick post to share an opportunity to get involved in a bit of Citizen Science. The inestimable Zooniverse has teamed up with Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, in a project called Irish Weather Rescue. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help digitize historical weather records that currently only exist on paper. Currently only a few percent of the available records have been digitised.
The project aims to provide access to valuable data that will improve our understanding of how rainfall patterns have changed over longer timescales and provide context for the changes we see in our current climate and possible future climate.
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Calling all Irish weather and climate enthusiasts!
Just a quick post to share an opportunity to get involved in a bit of Citizen Science. The inestimable Zooniverse has teamed up with Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, in a project called Irish Weather Rescue. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help digitize historical weather records that currently only exist on paper. Currently only a few percent of the available records have been digitised.
The project aims to provide access to valuable data that will improve our understanding of how rainfall patterns have changed over longer timescales and provide context for the changes we see in our current climate and possible future climate. Met Éireann’s archive contains an extensive collection of historical weather observations that include meteorological registers, rainfall registers, climatological reports, weather diaries, monthly weather bulletins and maps. These handwritten paper records are at risk of being lost due to the vulnerability of the original paper documents. By creating a digital copy of these records and extracting the data contained in them we can use the data to monitor climate variability and change, support effective climate risk management and improve climate model projections.
To read more about the project and/or volunteer, see here.
The collapse of the Atlantic ocean current that warms Ireland could see Dublin experiencing temperatures of minus 22 degrees and more days reaching a maximum
