They agree on this one, but he still thinks the system needs work.
You may have heard, but Ireland is about to be battered by yet another storm on Tuesday night, with Met Éireann seeing fit to issue a status orange weather warning for the entire country.
Storm Georgina is the fourth storm with a name attached to it to hit Ireland in the last month after Dylan, Eleanor and Fionn, although Met Éireann’s naming of the last one didn’t go down well with a fellow meteorologist in Channel 4.
Last week, Liam Dutton, a weatherman on Channel 4, expressed bemusement at the decision to name Storm Fionn by Met Éireann, insisting that there was a problem with the naming system and the joint initiative between Met Éireann and the Met Office in the UK.
This is the problem with the storm naming system. The Irish Met Office, @MetEireann, have different (lower) criteria that are numerically driven, compared to the @metoffice’s impact-based criteria. How can something be a joint initiative when each use different criteria?!🤨 https://t.co/S17U7PAKKv
— Liam Dutton (@liamdutton) January 16, 2018
Taking to Twitter, Dutton said: #StormFionn that has been named by @MetEireann shouldn’t have been named. It needs no more than a standard weather warning. It’s not even a low pressure with a storm centre, just a squeeze in the isobars. What next? Naming raindrops? It’s ridiculous!”
#StormFionn that has been named by @MetEireann shouldn’t have been named. It needs no more than a standard weather warning. It’s not even a low pressure with a storm centre, just a squeeze in the isobars. What next? Naming raindrops? It’s ridiculous! pic.twitter.com/WylG2Ym65d
— Liam Dutton (@liamdutton) January 16, 2018
Perhaps mindful of the fact that people would be interested in his views on Storm Georgina in light of his comments causing a small furore last week, Dutton acknowledged that Met Éireann had good reason to name this storm, although he maintained the view that joint criteria needs to be worked out.
Good to see @MetEireann has named a real storm this time round, although they and @metoffice still need to work out joint criteria. #StormGeorgina to bring strong and potentially disruptive gusts of wind to Ireland and the NW of the UK tonight into tomorrow. Warnings issued. pic.twitter.com/CEFCD0pm1k
— Liam Dutton (@liamdutton) January 23, 2018
You heard the man. Best batten down those hatches.
LISTEN: You Must Be Jokin’ with Aideen McQueen – Faith healers, Coolock craic and Gigging as Gaeilge
