Met Éireann should consider a new weather warning system that disregards county borders, according to a Professor of Geography.
'We should now consider drawing – as the UK system does – more abstract boundaries to tightly encompass the area at risk'.During last week’s cold snap , some places under orange weather warnings did not experience severe weather, while other areas in the same county were hard-hit.“If you take County Galway, a weather alert for Portumna or for Ballinasloe may be very much different from that applying in Clifden or Roundstone,” he said.
“The same kind of issues come up with East and West Wicklow, North and South Kerry, counties like Mayo and Cork as well. “Now, I realise fully that the logic of county boundary based system is of course that the local authority is responsible for taking the steps necessary to salt the roads and so on.
“That is a very valid argument to make, but I think it may well be that maybe we should now consider drawing – as the UK system does – more abstract boundaries to tightly encompass the area at risk from a particular climate hazard.”Prof Sweeney acknowledged that this type of information is available through Met Éireann’s website, but questioned how many people would check this.
“That’s just one suggestion; I don’t want to in any way say that the data from Met Éireann is not good in this area – the website is great.”“There is increasing concern that we may actually be tampering with the jet streams’ stability by warming up the Arctic to the extent that we are – five times faster than the global average,” he said.Prof Sweeney said it is ‘quite dangerous’ for us to think that our weather will not become more extreme in the years ahead.
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