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Weather Links for Ireland
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Ireland enjoys a temperate maritime climate. This is due to it's unique position in the Atlantic Ocean and it's proximity to the Gulf stream.
Here are a variety of links to weather forecast sites and met data locations so that you can always take the weather with you. |
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Frank Singleton's excellent educational Weather Site |
Met Eireann
Irish Meteorological Office |
Irish
Sea Area Forecast
Covers the 32 county coast to 30 miles off shore. |
Irish
Sea Area Forecast Book
Download and print your own forecast charts for the Met Eireann Sea Area.
pdf format |
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Rainfall radar |
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Coastal reports and Sea Crossing Forecasts |
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Isobar, Rainfall, Cloud and Temperature charts |
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3 hour forecasts (1 hPa isobars, rainfall and isotachs) |
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Offshore data buoys |
M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6 and Marathon Gas Field from
the Irish Marine Institute
Offshore buoys chart.
Coastal buoys from the BBC Met Office
Atlantic and Coastal buoys from NOAA
Offshore and Coastal Buoys from Weather Underground |
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UK Met Office |
The UK Shipping Forecast
Coastal Forecast to 12 miles offshore, including Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough.
Just for the fun of it:
Listen to humourist Les Dawson's Shipping Forecast,
read by
Brian Perkins of the BBC (wma
file) |
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Dun Laoghaire Harbour |
Current weather conditions |
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Weather Underground |
Current reports from IRL airports, weather stations |
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Windguru
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offers three day wind forecast |
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Windfinder |
offers seven day wind forecast |
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XCWeather |
offers seven day forecast |
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Metcheck |
seven day forecast |
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Magic Seaweed |
Animated synoptic forecast |
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Passage Weather |
Click the map -- North Atlantic then Ireland |
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NetWeather.tv |
UK 7 day forecasts |
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16-day forecast -- select chart type = UK Wind
Speed/Dir |
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Weather Online |
Synoptic Charts for 16 days -- select Wind 10M then choose day or date. |
| Satellites |
Meteo France |
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Meteosat 7 current pressure, vis, wind speed. |
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Infrared from Met Eireann |
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Visible from Met Eireann |
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Animated recent satellite |
| Synoptic charts |
Current
Atlantic Synoptic Chart |
| Atlantic
6 to 120 hours ahead (UK Met Bracknell) |
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BBC five day Atlantic synoptic charts |
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Windfinder fronts, cloud cover, pressure. |
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US Navy Surface Pressure Overlay |
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