Annamoe, Wicklow Snow - Far Too Many Pictures

Supercell

Last night there was a nice topping up of the snow already lying here. But instead of turning to slush overnight it froze so I was able to go out and take pictures this morning.
This is what snow mad people dream about, utterly fantastic conditions outside with snow stuck to everything.
If the roads don't look like there's much on them its simply because they've already been ploughed but the effect is still beautiful.
Hope you like them (I've added some more on page two of this thread of around the area..if you can handle that much snow!!)

Supercell

kerry1960

Fantastic , simply fantistic .

Wibbler

Great pictures. I'm jealous. Maybe I should move to Wicklow?

jambofc

wow
totally envious of you

Lumi

So jealous - what a beautiful scene. Lucky you!!

Pangea

OMG what fantastic pictures supercell ,incredible ,and great scenery too.

homersimpson

Brilliant photo's :eek::eek::eek::eek:

andrewh5

I love virgin snow without any footprints etc in it. It always looks beautiful.

DOCARCH

Smashing!

Overblood

Bleedin' rapid!

BNC

Great pics there. I really like this one.

Mothman

Wibbler wrote: »

Great pictures. I'm jealous. Maybe I should move to Wicklow?

Exactly what SC did couple years back and has been rewarded big time. There is the flip side of course with crap driving conditions more often (esp next monday :pac: ) but SC is very happy with the trade off.

Supercell

Thanks for the feedback everyone, Mothman your bang on there, they'll drag me kicking and screaming from this place

Here's some more photos (yes yet more!!) from this afternoon of the weird features caused by the wind on the powdery snow, pretty cool as well as come shots of Scarr mountain. Note the depth of the tracks left by the tractor in the second pic, the snow here is so deep its just silly now

























Now I'm all snowed out

wicklowgirl

lovely pics, where exactly is Scarr mountain?

Supercell

wicklowgirl wrote: »

lovely pics, where exactly is Scarr mountain?

If you mean in which photo, its the alpine looking white mountain in the background of picture 2 with the tractor tracks.

Scarr Mountain is right behind Annamoe village, and I suspect a major reason for the area getting dumped on in an easterly wind and lashed out it on rain events from the SE
You get a great view of it leaving Roundwood village heading towards Laragh and Glendalough.

wicklowgirl

Sorry I meant location, I live not to far from Annamoe but had never heard of Scarr mountain..

Supercell

Heres a better view of it, normally in the snow you can make out heather etc..but not today..



While I'm at it heres a few more, I promise no more

Roundwood Waterworks :-



And a couple of random field shots, the sun on the snow in the second one was almost blindingly bright.

wicklowgirl

You will have a nice collection of photo's from this!!! Hoping to have pics from the Wicklow gap tommorrow

Carter12

That is just gorgeous beautiful pictures

arctictree

Some amazing pics there SC - It really is very Alpine here ATM!

Scubadevils

They are absolutely amazing shots, what I would do to live around those parts - one day maybe!

You lucky, lucky bast*rd...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5-YmMxXQK8

Min

Those are real good pictures

Sammag

Gorgeous photos. Haven't seen snow like that in Ireland for years.

andrewie

Fantastic pictures Supercell!

So jealous!!

Darwin

Wonderful pictures SuperCell, I took a holiday in the log cabins in Glenmalure last September (not too far from your location) and the surrounding countryside is stunning, snow or no snow.

Supercell

Darwin wrote: »

Wonderful pictures SuperCell, I took a holiday in the log cabins in Glenmalure last September (not too far from your location) and the surrounding countryside is stunning, snow or no snow.

Glenmalure is a lovely spot indeed though its a bit lower than here so may not have as much if the white stuff, that said its a gorgeous area in its own right.

VeeEmmy

For me (and I suspect most others here), there's no such thing as "too many pictures" of the fabulous snow around you there, Supercell. You have a lot of truly spectacular shots, beautifully captured.

Thanks for sharing so many with us.

Takeshi_Kovacs

Thats a lot of snow, how high is your elevation again? I doubt there is even that depth of snow on top of Baurtregaum mountain overlooking Tralee atm which is 850m.

Mothman

Takeshi_Kovacs wrote: »

Thats a lot of snow, how high is your elevation again? I doubt there is even that depth of snow on top of Baurtregaum mountain overlooking Tralee atm which is 850m.

This month
Valentia 5mm
Here in Ashford down the road from Annamoe 59mm

Gonzo

wow those pics are amazing:)

Supercell

Takeshi_Kovacs wrote: »

Thats a lot of snow, how high is your elevation again? I doubt there is even that depth of snow on top of Baurtregaum mountain overlooking Tralee atm which is 850m.

I've four things on my side here in an easterly :-

1) Elevation - just over 200 metres
2) Distance from coast - I'm about 10km inland, even at the same elevation as I drive directly east towards Ashford the snow depth noticeably decreases in the fields.
3) Proximity to Scarr mountain, what a lot of people don't know is that just being beside a mountain gives you a different local microclimate to say the same elevation further way - cooler winds swoop of the mount slopes in certain conditions giving snowfall to levels below where its possible away from the mountain and
4) Orographic lift - I get my heaviest rains from a SE wind and it seems my heaviest snows from a NE wind - with Scarr mountain right behind me it obviously lift the clouds giving heavier rainfall here than would be the case further away from the mountain slopes.

I went for a walk earlier today after the snow this morning and its no exaggeration to say the drifts in the higher fields are easily 5 metres plus high - they go right over the ditches and hedges, its quite a sight

Straatvark

Hi, I'm new in town so:

Does it snow every year on the Wicklow Mountains?

How does the current snow compare to other year's snow depth?

Thanks.