Alan O'Reilly
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But theirs only gives every hour really for, again, the next two days.
Yeah, and it's funny you say that because to me, the weather model is useful for that, but the radar is actually more useful for that in terms of making a decision in the very short term.
Because if you look at the radar, you can see a band of showers, say, for example, generally in Ireland, moving west to east, obviously it can happen the other way around, and you can see how quickly it's moving, how heavy it is, is it breaking up?
But you're right, their weather app is a sharper app.
But the only problem I find with it is
people don't, Metairn don't differentiate.
You're now going from the Harmony model to the ECMWF, which is the next model that you use.
So you'll go, oh, hour by hour.
And then say, for example, it's a bank holiday weekend coming up.
You want to know what it's going to be like for the whole bank holiday.
Well, once you go beyond Sunday evening now, you're now into them using the ECMWF, which is a much lower resolution and a shorter update cycle.
So
You're not realizing that you're going from less accurate or more accurate.
These are different computer models, so different models that run on supercomputers.
And very often I talk about the Ryder Cup or weather models because you have the GFS, which is the American model, and then you have the ECMWF, which is the European model.
And they were kind of traditionally, they were the two models that most services either use.
But we've got a lot more models now, and especially these local high-resolution weather models because another high-resolution weather model, which I think...
would give harem a good run for its money is the french army model it's a high resolution weather model the only problem is if you live in the northwest of ireland it doesn't cover the very far ends of dunny gall why not so i will so they break it into a region and the supercomputer runs for a region and that region stretches to most of ireland but it just misses the tip of the northwest of ireland so it just looked at the tip of dunny gall and said nah
I don't, yeah, I don't know.
I'd imagine when a decision was made, someone hasn't been to Guido and said, we need to cover here.
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