Cold Spell Discussion (17/12/09) (Cold, Ice and Snow now arriving)

fintonie

there are snow flakes falling here the size of hubcaps

leahyl

fintonie wrote: »

there are snow flakes falling here the size of hubcaps

:mad::mad::mad:!!!

maquiladora

Pangea wrote: »

From the Met eireann forecast ,all one could take from it is there will be wintry showers over the weekend with the cold snap lasting at least till midweek.
No word of heavy snow or nothing ,ahh all this hype and nothing materialsing out of it yet.
Another letdown on the cards?

It's only Thursday evening. The first proper snow event wouldn't be till late Saturday according to the models, thats too far away for them to have any realistic idea of how much snow there will or wont be.

Lets see what they are saying Saturday morning, cause if the GFS and UKMO 12Z runs came off there would be widespread snow showers overnight Saturday.

WolfeIRE

fintonie wrote: »

there are snow flakes falling here the size of hubcaps

If you are in Bolton, they have probably all been nicked.

Tactical

leahyl wrote: »

True but you only say you're in Munster! Where in Munster?!;)

Ahh, but when I post a current condition I usually say West Limerick which pretty much describes the middle of nowhere hill I live on:D

Cold and clear here in West Limerick at present.

WolfeIRE

Tactical wrote: »

Cold and clear here in West Limerick at present.

same here in Clare tactical. Will let you know if there is any snow coming your way across the Estuary.

francosp

Radar showing one or two snow showers for Kilkenny :eek:

leahyl

WolfeIRE wrote: »

If you are in Bolton, they have probably all been nicked.

OOOOOHHHH......Now now:D

Drakmord

1 Degree Celsius in Galway.
Starting to get foggy but a nice night.
I doubt there'll be any snow here tonight.

fintonie

WolfeIRE wrote: »

If you are in Bolton, they have probably all been nicked.

the snow flakes or hubcaps

maquiladora

Lads, there's no reason to be negative when this is what the models are showing us now for just 2 days ahead ....

leahyl

fintonie wrote: »

the snow flakes or hubcaps

both;)!

WolfeIRE

fintonie wrote: »

the snow flakes or hubcaps

I have first cousins in Bolton area. They told me before about there being hubcap stealing craze in their area. Heading over to reebok in January for a premiership game and to anfield for another the following day. Hope the Bolton Artic winter continues 'till then!

Cloudy here at the moment..dewpoint has dropped to 0.5c air is 2.9c
Theres a hefty dregs of a streamer just East of wicklow head on the last radar shot I saw heading southwestwards.
That will be interesting if it makes it here.

holly1

WolfeIRE wrote: »

If you are in Bolton, they have probably all been nicked.

:p:p,good one:D

fintonie

maquiladora wrote: »

Lads, there's no reason to be negative when this is what the models are showing us now for just 2 days ahead ....

that looks like william wallaces men are on the move

Tactical

WolfeIRE wrote: »

same here in Clare tactical. Will let you know if there is any snow coming your way across the Estuary.

If we get some here I'll be sure to send a little your way too

'Twas lovely last January, all the hills were white and the wildlife that showed itself really stood out. Two foxes in particular spring to mind.

Drakmord

Has anyone else noticed that our winters are getting colder?
Our pipes froze last year for the first time in 20 years according to my parents.
Makes it kind of hard to believe in Global Warming :P

maquiladora

Drakmord wrote: »

Has anyone else noticed that our winters are getting colder?
Our pipes froze last year for the first time in 20 years according to my parents.
Makes it kind of hard to believe in Global Warming :P

My shower froze up last winter, and with the kind of temps were gonna be getting over the next few days I have a feelin it might happen again... :rolleyes:

fintonie

Drakmord wrote: »

Has anyone else noticed that our winters are getting colder?
Our pipes froze last year for the first time in 20 years according to my parents.
Makes it kind of hard to believe in Global Warming :P

is that not the idea the belt stops and we freeze up,

ya will have mountains of snow then

Gonzo

such a shame that the wind is changing direction just as the conditons become good for snow, a solid easterly tonight cud have provided us with alot of snow. Lets hope we have better luck on Sunday???

Drakmord

fintonie wrote: »

is that not the idea the belt stops and we freeze up,

ya will have mountains of snow then

I thought they'd abandoned that theory.
Who knows? Maybe.

maquiladora

Looks like snowing over the Slieve Bloom mountains on the latest radar. Some more snow moving into Wicklow now too?

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

gally74

cant wait to see soe white stuff, the weekend seems promising, lovely day in galway today, sun very bright even for mid winter, dry air.

spare a though for anyone travelling thou,

i expect we will wake up to SKY news in east england tomorrow, with a good 3-4" of snow oh and by the way

RAGE for Christmas No 1

ninebeanrows

Very interesting models this evening with ECM and UKM keeping pressure very high to the north with the cold reluctant to leave our shores.

Its an open-ended cold spell at this point.

A mate of mine just rang me to say it's snowing heavily up around annagh on the wicklow wexford border with a good 2 inches on the ground already-thats about 5 miles west of me but up at about 6ooft or so.
It's sleet and hail here.

fozzle

This is terrible - I really want snow, but we've no heating so it's not such a good thing!

leahyl

Amazing - this thread only started at 12.00 today and already has over 300 posts!! It's getting really exciting now!! Brings back memories of February...:D

maquiladora

*Dont take this chart too seriously*

If the current GFS run played out exactly as it predicts (unlikely) then this is the kind of snow covering you might expect to see by next Tuesday :

squonk

Having a hail shower here at the moment. Temp 4.2 and DP gone up to 1. Was -1 earlier.