Meteorologists Séamus Walsh and Evelyn Cusack on weather reporting, climate change and their new book They Say It Might Rain

Evelyn Cusack: ‘Social media forecasters - stop issuing your own weather warnings. It’s an official thing. You don’t want someone sitting in their front room doing it’

For decades, meteorologists and friends Evelyn Cusack and Séamus Walsh kept the Irish public informed about the forecast at Met Éireann. Now – as they launch a book all about the weather – the pair discuss how climate is changing from a local to a global concern, their despair at fossil-fuel driven policies and their hopes for the future

The day I meet Evelyn Cusack and Séamus Walsh is pleasant autumn weather, but a few days later, I find myself writing up the interview in the middle of a Status Orange warning for Storm Amy. Over 200,000 properties are without power, and a man has died in Letterkenny. In the UK, the storm