November 2025. They Say it Might Rain
As well as giving an overview of the content and answering your questions, Evelyn and Séamus will delved into the process of writing a book together on Ireland’s weather and climate. How they sourced material, what made the cut and what didn’t and how they managed to keep their sanity while constantly revising their text and never missing a deadline.
Evelyn Cusack and Séamus Walsh started their careers together as weather forecasters in Met Éireann in the 1980s. Evelyn went on to become Head of Forecasting and Séamus Head of Climatology and Observations. Drawing on their vast experience and knowledge, their book explains the vagaries of Ireland’s weather and climate and is sprinkled throughout with humour and personal stories.
October 2025. From Sunshine to Shamrocks. Maureen McCann is a broadcast meteorologist from Spectrum 13 News channel in Orlando, Florida, USA. Maureen will talk about hurricane news coverage in Florida, and storms which affect both Florida and Ireland.
Maureen McCann knew she wanted to be a broadcast meteorologist since the age of 4 when Hurricane Gloria blew through her New England hometown. So, it’s fitting that Maureen has landed in Florida, since it was a hurricane that sparked her interest in weather in the first place. Maureen is currently the weekday morning meteorologist at Spectrum News 13 in Orlando, the 24-hour station serving Central Florida. Her TV career has taken her around the country to experience a wide range of weather patterns starting in Bangor, Maine, followed by stations in Syracuse, NY, Austin TX, and Denver, CO. A Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), Maureen holds both the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and Certified Consulting Meteorologist seals and has served as the AMS Commissioner on Professional Affairs. Originally from Arlington, Massachusetts, Maureen graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Atmospheric Science and has earned a Master’s of Emergency and Crisis Management from the University of Central Florida with a focus on geographic information systems.
September 2025. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in a high-resolution climate model with and without Greenland freshwater input
Tido Semmler studied meteorology at the Free University of Berlin, did
his PhD at the University of Hamburg when he started to pursue
climate modelling. After several climate research positions at Max
Planck Institute in Hamburg, Met Éireann, and Alfred Wegener
Institute in Bremerhaven, he returned two and a half years ago to Met
Éireann, where he assumed a position as Senior Research Fellow in
global and regional climate modelling. His focus is on refined climate
modelling of the North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean to study the
impacts of changes in ocean circulation on the climate of Ireland.
June 2025. Forecasting for D-Day: How Meteorology shaped one of the most significant moments of the 20th century.
Conor Thompson Lally is an Applications Meteorologist for Met Éireann’s Research and Application Division. He has a BSc in Physics and a MSc in Software Engineering. Since joining the organisation in 2007, he has worked in various sections across Met Éireann including Aviation, Climate, and Observations, and has contributed to several papers in these areas. Conor is a long time member and supporter of the Irish Meteorological Society and currently serves as its Vice-President. Outside of Meteorology his interests also include History and Art History.
May 2025. Professor Andrew Parnell from UCD gave a presentation on Weather extremes in Ireland from 1942-2022.
Andrew Parnell is the Met Éireann Full Professor of Data Science for Weather and Climate at University College Dublin. His research is in machine learning and statistical modelling applied to many different weather, climate and ecological areas. He has co-authored over 110 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, including in Science, Nature Communications, Nature Plants, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and has contributed foundational methodology in journals such as Statistics and Computing, Knowledge-Based Systems, and Environmetrics. He is currently Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of the Research Ireland Co-Centre Climate+ in Climate, Biodiversity and Water.
April 2025. Dr John O’Sullivan from Met Éireann gave a presentation on how Ireland’s maximum temperature of 33.3 C has been re-investigated.
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