Irish Examiner view: Forecasting good days ahead

Met Éireann has joined forces with weather services in Iceland, Denmark, and the Netherlands to operate a new supercomputer to improve short-term forecasting

Dark clouds above Cobh, Co Cork, in August.

There is an old adage about the unpredictability of Irish weather: if you don’t like the forecast, just give it 10 minutes. 

As a nation, we’re weather-obsessed, it dominates conversation with no shortage of opinions, no shortage of experts.