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Originally Posted by Lurker
Yeah true. Some of the weather reports are weird here, some channels won't show the weather in Ireland though it's stupid not to, whereas on other channels you even sometimes see the weather for the edges of France, as well as Ireland. It's like somechannels are trying to spite Ireland.
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reason being is that some channels , namely itv, dont actually have a licence to broadcast to ireland (utv is the northern irish channel) so they will not show ireland weather on say news at ten. we get all itv channels here on sky but the box have to be manually tuned to do so. we also get them as overspill on the terrestrial ariel as well but move westwardly the signal gets fainter and fainter until there is no signal at all. bbc have a licence and sky also has a licence to braodcast to ireland therefore we have the irish weather there. bbc is made up of regional channels so we get the regional weather........
we have rte here anyway so the forecasting is pretty good, well as good as it can be.
the storm by the way.... not much down here, a few brances down and a lot pf wiind and rain but nothing major although its coming back in a few hours and the tide is very high in wexford town any more rain may see a breach of the banks at some stage...........