Talks 2022

24th November 2022

David Hare of InProduction.TV gave an entertaining and varied talk on the Great Irish Lighthouses, including tales of construction under extreme conditions, wartime raids and Nuclear Power, while also giving an insight into the difficult conditions under which light keepers worked.

27th October 2022

Dr Gerard McCarthy from Maynooth University spoke on  Sea Level Rise and Ireland, in his talk Gerard included a description of the meteotsuami which affected the South coast of Ireland on 18th June 2022.

June 23rd 2022 “Weather wanderings of an Irishman from around the world” by Dr Eddy Graham

In this easy-going talk, Eddy brought us on a personal journey, how the love of the Irish weather and its landscape, experienced as a child in Ireland, helped him make progress on the wider international field of meteorology and climatology.

May 26th 2022. Airwaves from the Tong-Hunga volcanic eruption.

The violent eruption of the large subterranean volcano Tonga—Hunga Ha’apai in the south Pacific Ocean on 15 January 2022 blew an eruption cloud at least 40 km into the atmosphere and generated a pressure wave which radiated outward from the volcano at close to the speed of sound. This pressure wave was detected across the entire globe, and was first detected in the British and Irish Isles some 14 hours after the eruption. This presentation discusses the event, the largest of its kind since the cataclysmic  eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. 

April 28th 2022. Compound Events: Are We Truly Prepared?

Extreme events are common across the globe and with climate change these events may become more destructive. Historically, these extreme events have been studied as univariate problems with compounding factors not addressed or ignored. This has potentially major consequences when we look at the impacts or try to prepare for future events. This leads to the question are we truly prepared for our future weather events?

23rd March 2022 WMOday Talk: Early Warning and Early Action

Evelyn Cusack,Head of Forecasting Met Éireann

The theme of WMO day. March 23rd for 2022 was “Early Warning and Early Action. Hydrometeorological and Climate Information for Disaster Risk Reduction”, the talk by Met Éireann’s Evelyn Cusack addressed this theme.

Ensemble Forecasting: Probabilities, Chaos and Butterflies“ Dr Alan Hally, Met Éireann , Thursday 24^th February 2022

In his talk Alan brought us through the development of ensemble prediction systems from the butterfly effect to the  Met Éireann  Irish Regional Ensemble Prediction System (IREPS), showing how ensembles can be used operationally to improve warnings of severe weather, using storm Eunice a case study