Bring on the snow

Longfield

Longfield wrote:

The buggering things are growing in the Irish sea though, maybe Arklow or one of the coastal towns in Wicklow might see some as the east coast bulges a little out to the sea there.

Soo close to Dublin..but yet so far..a tiny bit of easterly would push them ashore!

Or (but get her to put her coat on)

SpitfireIV

Is there room for me on that boat?? :v: :v:

(Thats a mechanical vechicle, you'll scare away the non existant snow :v: )

NW wind

Landfall by those showers is unlikely.
They'll hit Pembroke before morning though.

Theres 2 seats in the back

dloob

Well it's not a mechanical vehicle that travels on snow so maybe it will attract it instead

Not much happened in Galway today a light dusty shower that lasted all of 5 minutes and that was it. Oh well.

SpitfireIV

Is everyone in the 'anti-climax' stage after todays no show? I know I am, what a kick in the ass that was.

Anyway, I assume this weather wont be sticking around for too long more, anyone have any idea of whats on the cards (or is there at least ONE more chance for snow??)

Gonzo

i doubt there will be anything more unless you live in Mayo, Sligo, Donegal or Northern Ireland. All we can hope for now is a surprise snow event sometime over the next 4 to 5 weeks... I remember in the 80s we often had snow in March and I even once remember getting 8 inchs of snow in April.

Snowbie

Gonzo wrote:

i doubt there will be anything more unless you live in Mayo, Sligo, Donegal or Northern Ireland. All we can hope for now is a surprise snow event sometime over the next 4 to 5 weeks... I remember in the 80s we often had snow in March and I even once remember getting 8 inchs of snow in April.

Great pics today gonzo
Remember the good old snow 80s, 1981 1982 1987 were all exceptional for snow,it snowed for fun back then,none of this hoping for that shower to take a detour off the sea.IN 1992 JAN4 FEB7 FEB9 we had great snow then too,then you had to wait untill march1 2001 a polar low formed off the NW and moved SE to hit dublin early on the 1st,4 inches fell that day in 10hrs of snow,that my friend are the last times we got decent snow in dublin,a few dustings here and there not worth talking about.

Mothman

The radar is not lying

Snow

A good fall of big flakes. Deck is 50% covered.

Temp up to 1C and grass temp just below zero.
Dp -2C

Mothman

I've put the halogen security light on

Mothman

Didn't last long, but at least it stuck. About 70% covering on the deck.

Snowbie

Mothman wrote:

The radar is not lying

Snow

A good fall of big flakes. Deck is 50% covered.

Temp up to 1C and grass temp just below zero.
Dp -2C

Nice one,least you got some after your no show today,how heavy is it flurried here about 2 hrs ago?

damo605

Right you b*stards (with central heating wishing for snow).... Can someone tell me when this bloody cold spell is going to end?????? Currently -4 here in West Cork and only have 16amps, half a bottle of gas and feck all insulation to keep warm :mad:

SpitfireIV

Met Eireann's 3 hour precip chart:



I might get a teeny bit tonight, hmmm. There is no chance of that stuff to the north west and north east being blown down, no?

Snowbie

Here is a statistic,its been the coldest march since i have been taking readings,and thats over 16 years here were i live.it has got down below -1 for three consecitive nights.-3.4 i recorded last night which has been the coldest ever in any month of the year here at the coast.Coldest last year 2005 was 0c recorded in late nov.

Has anyone got info about weather maps or charts archived from the 80s or beyond,as i have tried everywhere to get my hands on them for the snow received in them years,be interesting to look at for them snow years,any help here would be great.

highdef

The heavy showers moving through the north at the moment....Is that a trought that could affect more southern areas (such as Dublin) or just the showers getting going again from the north which disipate when they reach the border - even the shaggin weather is political, it seems!!!

highdef

Just looking at the stats so far this month (yeah I know it's only the 3rd) but the average temp at Casement since the start of the month is -0.2 - WOW!!!

snow scorpion

You guys over there are useless. How many inches? (Or centimeters)

I saw the news report on RTE. Looked like Sligo got about 2 inches. What did the rest of the country get?

highdef

well the snow stuck in the shade (where the sun hadn't shone all day) for about 30 minutes maybe - thats how bad it was in Dublin

T'was very VERY scary :eek:

fatherdougalmag

Well I suppose it would have hit some places so late that, like SW Dub, it's still there. Might have a photo op tomorrow. Kind of like the photo opportunity you might get standing beside Jesus on the cross. Once in a lifetime. That's my recurring dream, eh, Crowdedhouse?

Gonzo

we still have most of our snow that fell around 2 or 3pm

lucernarian

Yesterday was a bit of a non event at home. Suprisingly Drogheda itself got a good bit of frozen rain and the place was white briefly at around 2pm.

I preferred Thursday to be honest, at least it was proper snow.

ninebeanrows

The last chance fo this cold spell comes later then thats it for winter 06'

A ban of showers will push in to affect Ulster, Leinster and the Midlands
from 1600-1900hrs... Hopefully the later with some frost on forming before
the likely 2mm of precip in the Dublin region;)

Scubadevils

Hopefully WC, would be nice to see a final snow shower! Only 9 months or so before we all hop on the rollercoaster again

I'm off to Hamburg and Hannover next Sunday for 3 days with work. Am I likely to see snow there???

CrowdedHouse

fatherdougalmag wrote:

That's my recurring dream, eh, Crowdedhouse?

Good one Dougal !!

Four seasons in one day
Lying in the depths of your imagination
Worlds above and worlds below
The sun shines on the black clouds
Hanging over the domain
Even when you're feeling warm
The temperature could drop away
Like four seasons in one day

darkman2

I just want to emphasise that Winter as such is not over for us till the end of March. Indeed its still possible to get snow in late March. It has happened several times before. Last year for example our last snow shower was in April! So I wouldnt rule out a return of Winter at some stage through March. However it is scraping the bottom of the barrel a bit at this stage.


Roll on a hot summer I say:D

P.S BEST CHART OF THIS 'SEASON' FOR US:



:cool:

Gonzo

I think this cold spell is practically finished now, temps today are around 5 to 7c across most of the country, it will be very cold again tonight but tomorrow shud see 7 or 8C in most parts, any showers in the NW will be of rain/sleet/hail.

Supercell

Rain shower in Clones!.

The fat lady is officially singing in Dublin !!

Gonzo

yeah its over more or less, 8C in Kilkenny.. could see 9 or 10C tomorrow

Scubadevils

I was out the back having a smoke and it was actually nice to feel some warmth in the sun I get sick of the cold when there is no snow potential. Bring on the summer! Next winter will be the big one, its been brewing for a while

Gonzo

im not so sure next year will be the big one.. back in november every newspaper and weather centre claimed this year would be record breaking when in fact barely anything deliveryed... many places still havent seen a flake this year. I think there might be more of a snow risk next year,it's not possible for it to be much worse than this year's insulting efforts. Now that this cold spell is over, I want the temperatures to really start lifting up now and the progression of warmish sunny days from the middle of April onwards with some hot and sultry week long scotchers in June, July & August with a couple of violent thunderstorms thrown in for good measure:)

billy the squid

It is like this. you wont see the next big winter coming. it will just come out of nowhere. it will just happen.

Danno

Winter 2005/6

R.I.P.

Duiske

Gonzo wrote:

.. back in november every newspaper and weather centre claimed this year would be record breaking when in fact barely anything deliveryed...

Not sure what weather centre said that this was going to be a record breaking year. British met office said " a 66% chance that this winter would be the driest and coolest since 1995". They got it bang on as far as I can see.

Danno

Starting a new thread discussing the by-gone winter here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=50986421

Snowbie

Our only chance of getting a bitterely cold winter with lots of snow is
1.Move to north of scotland ie:Aberdeen/Inverness:cool:
2.Atlantic conveyor shuts down
3.The continental plate Ireland is on moves further north faster than 3 inches a year.:rolleyes:
4.Nucleur winter :eek:
5.Meteor/comet hitting the Earth,throwing up debris blocking out the sun :eek:
6.Sallys gap in Dublin mtns
7.PRAY
lol

kaizer

Alright friend sorry for not gettin back to ya Ive been busy - Before I say anythin we gettin sleet now nothin to spectalar - wet snow- although I went out coast road to collect me ma and da last night round 1 !one) am and put it this way 3 miles an hour back in it was that bad. (and that was coast road)

I reckon I will never see lyin snow on any coast road for at least ??? years to come


Anyway Im from the coast Whitehead and ur man asked me to take pics.

I took pics

http://img419.imageshack.us/img419/9696/10000215ts.jpg

This was lookin down the coast road incoming over the irish sea- t minus 5 minutes

http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/6332/10000254kw.jpg

she hit and came from the sea - blizzards



http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2663/10000244af.jpg

total whiteout mates.

As I say sleet now is all we gettin in these heavy showers - I really wished u guys seen some snow--

Always next year!!!

kaizer

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2663/10000244af.jpg

snow? what snow

snow scorpion

So, basically, you guys got a "dusting" that was gone in a few hours? :rolleyes:

kaizer

snow scorpion wrote:

So, basically, you guys got a "dusting" that was gone in a few hours? :rolleyes:

wrong - I pulled me camera out when it got started - They asked for some pics you got em.

Yes the cold snap is over but I took those pics just when it started

SpitfireIV

snow scorpion wrote:

So, basically, you guys got a "dusting" that was gone in a few hours? :rolleyes:

Thats basically it SC, The North and parts of the North west have been getting snow all week though. But hey, we're not in charge of the weather, mother nature decides what we get

kaizer

All we gettin is heavy wet sleet showers - Winters over?

kaizer

http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/6306/snw11zf.jpg

snow scorpion

I know it doesn't snow very often in Ireland, but I didn't know you guys got so excited when it does snow.

I wonder how you would have reacted if you were here three weeks ago when we got 27 inches of it in 24 hours?

(Of course, the big storm was followed by a warm front and almost all the snow was gone just six days later.)

Mothman

Can we keep pictures out of these threads. I'm sure they must be good, but taking too long to download.
I'm on diap-up

Still waiting for broadband to come to my area :mad:

No air or ground frost this morning.

Supercell

My car passed its NCT this morning, so i feel its only right to bring it up the Wicklow mountains for a spin (and to take some snow pics before it all goes!).
Will put the pics in the pics thread.

darkman2

Be careful. Dont worry folks there is always next year. Only 9 months to go!:rolleyes:

Villain

Poor Swizz http://www.breakingnews.ie/2006/03/05/story247759.html are getting too much!!

lucernarian

This winter in terms of synoptics has actually been very great I believe. It is certainly an unusual winter (should I speak in the present tense?) and this bodes well for the future.

I notice that there is a vague pattern in the weather lately. During late Jan and early Feb we had that mucky HP parked over us. Then the zonality rushed in for a few days and the LP then migrated SEwards, setting up a less-than-impressive easterly. The HP responsible then moved to Greenland giving us a relatively prolonged Northerly. Now we have the atlantic rushing in over us for nearly a week. This, if forecast correctly by the model charts, will stay with us for a few more days until a LP basically dies out over us and an easterly rushes in again:)

Nothing spectacular forecast but the chance of snow is there.

Winter is not pushing up the daises yet;)

LOL I looked at FI just there and the HP that was over Scandi moves to Greenland!

fatherdougalmag

Any comments on the potential for the end of the coming week? Or are we all just fed up