Talk:Climate of Northern Ireland

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[edit] why?

why is this article necessary? Surely this information would be better contained in Climate of Ireland. 86.40.181.112 (talk) 02:15, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

It's presumably poltically motivated given the current existence of northern ireland as a separate state to the republic of ireland. Nature surely doesn't care about such petty human boundaries: Ireland (Hibernia) is one island, and differs from north to south climate-wise even less than the island of Britannia does.

Climate of Northern Ireland: "Ever so slightly colder on average than further south in Ireland." Geez. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.45.14.42 (talk) 03:44, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Please desist from political commentary. As you have stated, the Republic of Ireland is a different country to Northern Ireland, like it or loathe it. Therefore, the national meterological service is different (Met Eireann in RoI, Met Office in NI), meaning that the statistics are different. The article "Climate of Ireland" is actually about the Republic of Ireland, not the whole island. EJF (talk) 09:42, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

The very existence of the article is political commentary.

And actually, the climate of ireland article is clearly about the whole island, as you can see from the graphs etc. What's more, Met Eireann routinely covers the whole island of ireland. http://www.met.ie/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.45.14.42 (talk) 18:55, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

No, their statistics do not - they do not have weather stations in Northern Ireland. Therefore all the statistics in the Climate in Ireland article are different to those in the Climate of Northern Ireland article. How is the climate of Ireland article "clearly about the whole island"? Simply, it isn't, check the statistics. I see you mention the graphs - there is one graph, which covers the whole British Isles. Are you therefore saying that because Climate of Ireland has this graph covering the whole British Isles, that Climate of Scotland is redundant to Climate of Ireland? As you can see if you read the article, there are considerable differences in the climate and statistics of the two countries, NI and RoI - and the article was created because of the need for climate articles that accurately show climatic conditions in the Home Nations. Climate of England and Climate of Wales are coming soon as well, am I allowed to write those? EJF (talk) 10:17, 25 May 2008 (UTC)