Soft Day: Irish Weather

The most accurate short-range weather there is for Ireland, from the people who write it. Soft Day shows Met Eireann's forecast for exactly where you are: the temperature now, the hours ahead, the week ahead, and the words Met Eireann's forecasters write every morning for your part of the country. All of it on a sky that looks like the one outside your window: grey and heavy when it is overcast, clear with a low sun on a bright evening, streaked when it rains. WHY IT IS MORE ACCURATE Irish weather is made over the Atlantic, and it changes by the hour. Most weather apps blend global models that treat Ireland as a few grid squares; they are fine for a week-ahead feel and often wrong about this afternoon. Met Eireann runs a 2.5 km model over Ireland several times a day and has forecasters on duty around the clock who check it against the radar and write down what they expect. Soft Day puts…