That does not look too bad does it?a little rain. a little cloud, a little sun.....
Weather impacts on all our activities and watching the news is not a strong enough source for info - so what do we use?
Well for a start we would be fans of Met Eireann - this gives us a definitive and accurate source of data. So looking for today we have some serious weather to contend with :-(
But there is more - as forcasting gets more acccurate we can predict the exact imppacts on the beach - given that we have a great big hill behind us wind can sometimes be sheltered when the rest of the city is in a mess. Three great sites that are used by members are magic seaweed, wind guru and accuweather. these are great because they give specific and time based weather predictions - want to know what the wind will be like at three - check out sutton/burrow on windguru and you get everything you need to know , water state check out magic seaweed, rain - well accuweather's hourly predictions are pretty much on the money.
so how bad is today - looking out over Barnageara strand now its not great and getting worse- predications for the afternoon are bad and getting worse. Thats laymans terms. the tech.....
Met Eireann: East to southeast gales today on Irish Coastal Waters from Malin Head to Carlingford Lough to Wicklow Head and the Irish Sea north of Anglesey will veer south to southeast. 2) Southeast gales this morning on Irish Coastal Waters from Wicklow Head to Hook Head to Valentia and the South Irish Sea will veer south to southwest and increase to strong gale force.
Issued at 05:00 on 16-May-2009. There is also a blight warning (so no fish OR chips)
Meteoalarm has us at a yellow warning (low to high- white, green, yellow, orange, red)
Gale warnings make swimming unlikely even though the wind may just favour us - but we will work on gear and find somewhere dry and warm for beach lifeguards. Don't cycle anywhere today - it may just be the day to keep numbers low
how bad is a gale? - check out the lifeguard site here
and check out Sea Fever: TG4 on May 16th 2009 at 6pm
