back in stock at ChainReactionCycles, EUR48 each. bookmarking to buy in case the weather forecast turns shitty again this year...

Yes! short-term weather prediction and dataviz. I've been vaguely considering ideas along these lines recently, but these guys have gone much further. US residents, fund it -- I really hope this gets made and makes it to Ireland...

using SNAP, the Norwegian Meterological Institute's nuclear-fallout modelling system. Very useful, much niftier than the UK version, and much more *publicly available* than the Irish version

updated 4 times daily, maps of Europe indicating coverage of the ash cloud. I'm going to be F5'ing this constantly over the next week as I'm supposed to be flying on Sunday :(

Russ Garrett with another set of near-realtime desktop weather imagery (cf. http://taint.org/xplanet/ )

chains -- for your shoes. basically crampon overshoes, to deal with ice and snow, EUR45

live weather-station data from across Ireland, overlaid on a Google Map, using amateur and professional stations. fascinating

good thread, despite a lot of patronising asshattery

another weather forecasting service which may be more reliable than Met Eireann, this time from yr.no, the joint online weather service from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. if only Met Eireann spent our taxes on something of this quality (via Stephen Mulcahy)

so Met Eireann's crappy weather forecasts are actually just what they give out "for free"; if you pay extra, they have more accurate forecasts. what a scam for a govt department! Handily though, they are mandated by law to give out decent forecasts to pilots -- which are available online