Fierce Cold Spell from Sunday (February 1st)

Badabing · 03-02-2009 10:05am

timmywex wrote: »

+1 for wexford, any non main road is in a state.

Every fricken thing in this country grounds to a halt witha smalll bita snow, anyone ever been to germany, switzerland, austria etc where they get this amount of snow in an hour, and they roads are still clear and nothing is different!

Timmy do you know if South Wexford got a good bit of snow?

Pangea · 03-02-2009 10:05am

No snow here yet in south donegal, jealous of everyone elses storys. I expected some last night at least.

leahyl · 03-02-2009 10:06am

Solair wrote: »

Cork City has a bit of a weirdly mild microclimate due to the topgraphy sheltering it from northerly winds and the huge harbour acting a bit like a giant hot water bottle. Once you get away from the harbour area, it becomes a lot more frost prone.

Rather more amusingly though, the airport (built on a hill to give the planes a head start) manages to be the only place in the entire city that's regularly fog bound!

Does anyone have any idea when the last time there was a major snow event in Cork City was ? There must be some record of one in the last century or so?

Did we not experience the snow of 87 that everyone is going on about?! I dnt remember cos i was only 2 at the time! My dad was telling me that there was major snow in the year he was born - 1945 - my grandparents couldn't bring him to the church to be christened it was so bad:D

Solair · 03-02-2009 10:08am

timmywex wrote: »

+1 for wexford, any non main road is in a state.

Every fricken thing in this country grounds to a halt witha smalll bita snow, anyone ever been to germany, switzerland, austria etc where they get this amount of snow in an hour, and they roads are still clear and nothing is different!

Well, they all fit snow tyres before snow season and all know how to drive in snow. Any area that doesn't regularly experience serious winter weather usually grinds to a complete standstill once there's anything approaching snow lying on the roads.

I've seen similar states of utter confusion and panic in Vancouver in Canada and various places along the west coast of the US when they get a dumping of snow that they're not used to. Yet, if you go barely 50km inland, everyone has their snow tires and is driving around like there's nothing unusual about it.

The Irish reaction to snow isn't really any different from the reaction you get in other non-snowy spots.

timmywex · 03-02-2009 10:08am

Badabing wrote: »

Timmy do you know if South Wexford got a good bit of snow?

Id say so, im in wexford town and theres about 4inches after falling outside my door overnight! Enniscorthy/olygate will be covered,was yesterday, i can only guess the south of the county will be the same

dedon · 03-02-2009 10:10am

Really heavy snow here in Limerick for tha last half hour. Sky is full of it. Had about an inch last nite. Finally we got it!!

Redsunset · 03-02-2009 10:10am

whats all this talk about rain.its all snow where i am.must be that if your nearer the coast.

leahyl · 03-02-2009 10:11am

dedon wrote: »

Really heavy snow here in Limerick for tha last half hour. Sky is full of it. Had about an inch last nite. Finally we got it!!

Oh my God this is getting beyond a joke now - practically all the counties surrounding Cork get it and we only get a sprinkling - well the City i mean:(

kenmc · 03-02-2009 10:11am

DOCARCH wrote: »

Wife will go nuts - got a text last night to say school would not open today and then got a text this morning to say it would!

Just say you didn't get the second one

leahyl · 03-02-2009 10:12am

kenmc wrote: »

Just say you didn't get the second one

LOL:D

dedon · 03-02-2009 10:13am

Met Eireann forecasting rain and we are getting snow. What a service

Solair · 03-02-2009 10:13am

leahyl wrote: »

Oh my God this is getting beyond a joke now - practically all the counties surrounding Cork get it and we only get a sprinkling - well the City i mean:(

There's plenty of cloud in the skies over Cork City right now. Although, it doesn't seem cold enough to come down as snow.

leahyl · 03-02-2009 10:13am

dedon wrote: »

Met Eireann forecasting rain and we are getting snow. What a service

Is it staying on the ground though?

Pangea · 03-02-2009 10:14am

This was offically the perfect letdown ,Not confident of gettin any snow now ,met eireann it said we would get a good dumping of it in ulster, and that nearly everyone would see snow. met eireann r useless.
Now if we do get any its not gona be much.
No warning for northern ireland on met uk anymore either

leahyl · 03-02-2009 10:16am

Solair wrote: »

There's plenty of cloud in the skies over Cork City right now. Although, it doesn't seem cold enough to come down as snow.

:(sob!

mwrf · 03-02-2009 10:17am

It's bucketing down snow here in Citywest at the moment.

dedon · 03-02-2009 10:17am

leahyl wrote: »

Is it staying on the ground though?

Not really! A bit did from last night. If it snows for long enough it will :pac:

hakaman · 03-02-2009 10:18am

Pictures from Dunlavin as promised.

bennyx_o · 03-02-2009 10:19am

Snowing in Dublin Port now, ground is far too wet for it to stick though

Mobhi1 · 03-02-2009 10:20am

Hail shower a short while ago here near city centre - left covering on cars and started to cover ground. Now light snow. Where is the cold sector at the moment? Is it heading back in over us?

SEPT 23 1989 · 03-02-2009 10:20am

big heavy flakes in Newcastle Dublin:)

leahyl · 03-02-2009 10:20am

hakaman wrote: »

Pictures from Dunlavin as promised.

Oh my god that is UNREAL! You are so freakin lucky!:D

Davo D · 03-02-2009 10:22am

Well for the first time in two days actual proper 100% snow is falling at the Dublin coast. But nothing is sticking. Damn you weather gods!!!

kenmc · 03-02-2009 10:24am

Snowing in dame st now too, but the damage is done, everything is wet, nothing will stick.

Strasser · 03-02-2009 10:26am

hakaman wrote: »

Pictures from Dunlavin as promised.

Similar scenes in Blessington, very impressive accumulations. If only things had been a degree or 2 colder generally we would have had a near '82 type event, really sorry most have missed out. All eyes to the coming artic blast at the end of the week.