The Met Éireann Podcast
Few things impact us on a daily basis like the weather; how we work and travel, how we exercise and socialise, how we grow our food, our safety and even how we feel. Our weather and climate are changing, and a better understanding of our atmosphere can help us navigate these changes.
The Met Éireann Podcast explores all things weather and climate, the mysteries of our atmosphere and meets the people that work to understand them. Dr Noel Fitzpatrick is joined by new guests each episode to help uncover the science and its wide-ranging impacts. For more, see met.ie/podcast.
1
Medicanes
In this month’s episode we are exploring how medicanes form, their impacts, and the efforts made to understand and forecast them
31 min
2
The TRANSLATE Project
Rapid and effective action is required to help mitigate climate change and to help adapt to its impacts.
28 min
3
Wildfires
54 min
4
Saving Lives at Sea
Noel visits the Sligo Bay Lifeboat station and speaks with the crew on how they carry out their vital work and the impact that weather can have on their operations
49 min
5
The Sun and Our Skin
Noel is joined by Dr Barbara McGrogan and Dr Triona McCarthy of the National Cancer Control Programme to explore the role of sunlight and UV radiation in skin damage and skin cancer and how best to protect ourselves from the most adverse effects
39 min
6
Aurora and Space Weather
Noel speaks with Dr Sophie Murray to explore the aurora, solar winds, the role of the sun in space weather and the potential for more aurora sightings in the near future.
42 min
7
Noel on 'Basically...with Stefanie Preissner'
Noel joins Stefanie Preissner on the Basically podcast for a fun, wide-ranging conversation covering everything from why Ireland gets the weather it does, how weather forecasting works, your chances of getting struck by lightning and what climate change has in store
36 min
8
How Weather Radar Works, with Sinéad Duffy
Weather radar is one of the most useful tools available to meteorologists or anyone wondering if it is going to rain!
23 min
9
Lift off: The launch of Europe’s new weather sa...
In this month’s episode, we are looking to space and what the future holds for satellite meteorology
34 min
10
Climate impacts and solutions with Prof Peter T...
The extreme heatwaves and droughts of Summer 2022 affected hundreds of millions of people across the Northern Hemisphere, and although exceptional to us, should they now be expected in a warming climate?
34 min
11
Adventures on the Frontiers of Climate Change
Dr Heïdi Sevestre is one of the world's leading voices on the need to protect our planet's cold places and the damage being caused by climate change
49 min
12
Season 4 Trailer
The Met Éireann Podcast is back with a brand new season
1 min
13
IPPC Report - avoiding the worst effects of cli...
Dr. Padraig Flattery is back to take us through the latest instalment of the IPCC's sixth report which focuses on the steps we need to take to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
36 min
14
Top 10 take aways from the IPCC Report on the i...
Dr. Padraig Flattery from Met Éireann's climate services discusses the top 10 messages from a recent IPCC report on the impact climate change is having on the planet.
33 min
15
The influence of the sky on ancient Ireland
Archaeoastronomer Dr. Frank Prendergast joins Noel to talk about the relationship between people in our prehistoric past and the sky above them, particularly how structures they built, such as burial tombs and ritual sites, align with solar cycles and even clusters of stars.
48 min
16
The future of forecasting
Noel and Liz discuss the advancements that will help to predict our weather in the future including the new UWC supercomputer in Iceland.
54 min
17
COP26, Storm Barra and winter weather forecast
In this bumper Xmas edition, senior climatologist Keith Lambkin gives us a round-up of what happened at COP26 and meteorologist Paul Moore joins us to discuss Storm Barra and what lies ahead weather wise this winter.
49 min
18
COP26 - What's at stake and what to look out for.
Dr. John Hanley is a climate scientist at Met Éireann and in this episode he highlights some of the latest findings on climate change as well as the key objectives of COP26, which he will be attending.
58 min
19
How weather affects rescue services
Noel and Liz speak to members of the Galway Mountain Rescue Team and one of the pilots of Rescue 118 to find out how weather impacts these vital services.
50 min
20
The impact of weather on food growth
This month we're exploring the basic science of how plants grow, the risks weather poses to our crops, how climate change may affect food production, and we also get some tips from the experts for those of us growing food at home.
41 min
21
Why ice matters
Most of us live far from the coldest parts of the world, so why should we be concerned by the loss of the earth's ice? Featuring interviews with glaciologists working in the Alps and Greenland, this episode explores the importance of ice to the health of our planet.
47 min
22
How climate influences the spread of disease
Dr. Rachel Lowe Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, explains how climate influences the behaviour of disease vectors, the impact of climate change on ecological systems and if Covid-19 is affected by the weather.
27 min
23
Long-range forecasting
Weather has an impact on everything from economic activity to energy consumption. Being able to spot potential problems or opportunities caused by our weather is really important.
39 min
24
Weather and Climate: Fact and Fiction
In this month’s episode of the Met Éireann Podcast, Liz and Noel are investigating these weather sayings to separate fact from fiction. From red skies at night to cows lying down, we hear about how these sayings may have developed and if they have a meteorological leg to stand on!
55 min
25
Antarctica: Weather & Survival
There are few places on Earth more challenging to live than the southernmost continent, Antarctica, the world’s highest, driest, windiest, and coldest continent. In this month’s episode of the Met Éireann Podcast, Liz and Noel speak to an Antarctic meteorologist about the challenges of working in one of the most extreme locations on the planet.
46 min