Weather and environment panel
This guide explains how to open the Weather panel and what each section shows — live conditions, forecast, marine data, solar potential, and flood zone context.
Opening the panel
- Select Weather from the layer toggle on the left side of the screen.
- Click anywhere on the map to open the Weather panel for that location.
- The panel is draggable — click and hold the header bar to reposition it on screen.
Current conditions
The top section shows live weather conditions for the clicked location, sourced from Met Éireann:
- Temperature (°C)
- Wind speed and direction
- Rainfall
- Humidity, atmospheric pressure, and cloud cover
A 24-hour hourly forecast is shown directly below the current conditions.
Marine data
If you click near the coast, the panel shows the nearest Marine Institute buoy reading:
- Wind speed and gusts at the buoy
- Wave height
- Air temperature
Buoy data is not available for inland locations.
Solar potential
This section shows the estimated annual solar energy yield for the clicked location, based on EU Science Hub (PVGIS) long-run climate averages for a 1 kWp solar system.
Flood context
This section shows whether the clicked location falls within an OPW CFRAM flood zone:
- No flood risk zones found — the location is outside all mapped flood zone boundaries.
- Zone A — high probability fluvial flood zone (annual exceedance probability ≤1%).
- Zone B — medium probability fluvial flood zone (annual exceedance probability 0.1–1%).
If the source line shows Update pending, the OPW data service is temporarily unreachable. The result shown reflects the default assumption (no flood zone found) and will refresh automatically once the service recovers.
Data sources
- Current conditions and forecast — Met Éireann
- Marine buoy data — Marine Institute
- Solar potential — PVGIS (EU Science Hub)
- Flood zones — OPW CFRAM via EPA GeoServer