Flood risk in heavy rain warning

UTV usually mentions the weather in the Irish Republic in its weather forecast on the 6 o'clock news. I seldom hear the weather in England mentioned unless it's something that's expected to affect the weather here in N Ireland, same about Scotland who often seem to get snow, heavy rain or gales just before we do. I don't see that it really matters, as long as they cover the weather here in NI. If someone wants to hear details about the weather in the rest of Ireland on in the rest of the UK they can look it up, eg during the recent flooding in southern England I often checked which parts were affected as my sister lives there and I visit her very frequently.

I understand that the remit of the Met Office is limited to the six counties and I am obviously not criticising them here, but it seems strange for UTV to concentrate of Western England as opposed to what the rest of Ireland is getting today. Met Éireann says that Munster and East Leinster are going to take a hammering with the really bad conditions spreading north to include parts of Ulster by tonight. Listening to RTÉ radio on my commute earlier, they said that parts of the south were already flooded (by about 8am). The weather does not respect arbitrary man-made political borders. The conditions in Donegal or Louth are highly likely to affect at least some people in the six counties. Whether it snows in the north of Scotland or rains in Kent is much less likely to affect your target audience. Ireland bears the brunt of winds, etc. coming in from the Atlantic so that they have dissipated by the time they reach Britain. Likewise, Britain partially shields Ireland from any Arctic weather fronts. I would suggest the inclusion of Met Éireann warnings in future - for reasons of physical (as opposed to political) geography. They include Ulster.

After the last flood at end of June this year my family and I had to move out for 3 weeks. My experience of the help we received last time was negative as no one seemed to know who was responsible for sandbags or advice and many calls went unanswered or to voicemail. We r lucky that we got back in so soon. Many neighbours are still not back in. I hope that There is a plan for tomorrow should there be another flood. I have lost all possessions on the ground floor once this year already, I am dreading this rainfall now!!