RTÉ's George Lee says Ireland is not using key water‑level data to prepare for stormsRTÉ's environment correspondent, George Lee, has said more future planning could be done based off of available water-level data. Speaking on RTÉ's Six One News, he said Met Éireann did all it could ahead of Storm Chandra, but there needs to me more cross-agency collaboration. "Met Éireann has a huge amount of data. "For instance, they have got lovely graphs in terms of cumulative rainfall over the past week, loads of graphs in terms of where we are in terms of average rainfall compared to monthly figures compared to where we are. "Nobody seems to be using any of that.

Source: Irish Independent January 27, 2026 21:01 UTC