Cold Spell Discussion (18/12/09) (Cold, Ice and Snow now arriving)

Scubadevils

patneve wrote: »

ahhh found it, couldn't remember it well as i was abroad:D 27th February 2001. Dublin airport was closed that day: http://www.rte.ie/news/2001/0227/snow.html

Yeah that was it, didn't even know it was coming, just woke up to buckets of snow falling!

force eleven

patneve wrote: »

ahhh found it, couldn't remember it well as i was abroad:D 27th February 2001. Dublin airport was closed that day: http://www.rte.ie/news/2001/0227/snow.html

I remember that one too, because I was in Dublin that day, it was a whiteout event, but I had to drive home down the N4 later that day, and amazingly once you got not far beyond Lucan, there was no snow at all, it really was an east coast event that one.

munsterlegend

maquiladora wrote: »

12Z GFS isnt bad at all, looks like a slight upgrade for tomorrow nights snow event with almost all areas seeing some snow and then snow showers continued for some for several days with no thaw as temperatures drop very low and stay low right into the middle of next week at least.

Could be very interesting for some.

still worry about us down south and won't believe it till i see it! still the omens are good. where are the snow showers likely to be next week?

wild handlin

Snowing now here for real, still very light and the flakes are no bigger than the size of this smily =

Lets hope that the snow flakes get bigger and that the snow gets heavier!!

maquiladora

I must be in the warmest place in Ireland, 4C here! :pac:

Waterford is the Mexico of The Day After Tomorrow...

roryc1

Looking at the GFS that band of precipitation on sat night might get further south than i was thinking, hopefully all the way to dublin

WolfeIRE

maquiladora wrote: »

Waterford is the Mexico of The Day After Tomorrow...

hehe. do you have Kilkenny people digging tunnels under the border too?

Lots more activity further west in past hour

munsterlegend

roryc1 wrote: »

Looking at the GFS that band of precipitation on sat night might get further south than i was thinking, hopefully all the way to dublin

all forecasts have it moving very far south, in the uk as well as ireland so things do look very positive in that respect.

Scubadevils

I wonder how we'd all cope though in fairness if an '82 were to happen again. I have dreamt about it happening again ever since but if I so much as mention it to my parents they shudder and say how awful it was... no electricity, difficulties in getting basics such as food etc, our only heat source in the house was a Superser (can't remember how to spell but a gas cylinder heater for those who remember ).

Ah feck it, bring it on... :pac:

maquiladora

munsterlegend wrote: »

still worry about us down south and won't believe it till i see it! still the omens are good. where are the snow showers likely to be next week?

Next week looks unpredictable honestly, snow showers are probably most likely for the western and northern half of the country but honestly I don't think the models have a handle on it past Sunday.

maquiladora

roryc1 wrote: »

Looking at the GFS that band of precipitation on sat night might get further south than i was thinking, hopefully all the way to dublin

I think that will move down across the whole country, the question is what will the precipitation be and how weak will be it when it gets to wherever your area of interest is.

nacho libre

light snow falling here now( the first snow of this period) a prelude of what's to come i hope!!

Scubadevils

Felixdhc wrote: »

I wonder how we'd all cope though in fairness if an '82 were to happen again. I have dreamt about it happening again ever since but if I so much as mention it to my parents they shudder and say how awful it was... no electricity, difficulties in getting basics such as food etc, our only heat source in the house was a Superser (can't remember how to spell but a gas cylinder heater for those who remember ).

Ah feck it, bring it on... :pac:

A Superser... we huddled around one similar to this in '82 with candles lighting and blizzards outside.

Slippin Jimmy

Felixdhc wrote: »

I wonder how we'd all cope though in fairness if an '82 were to happen again. I have dreamt about it happening again ever since but if I so much as mention it to my parents they shudder and say how awful it was... no electricity, difficulties in getting basics such as food etc, our only heat source in the house was a Superser (can't remember how to spell but a gas cylinder heater for those who remember ).

Ah feck it, bring it on... :pac:

Wasn't even born, let alone thought of in 82. But from what i've heard about it it sounds epic. I would love to experience something like that. It would be so cool. Just need to stock on supplies first

Supercell

Some pics from Sally Gap this afternoon i took on a spin - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=63561452#post63561452

maquiladora

UK Met Office severe weather warning for Norther Ireland for Sunday, could be up to 8 inches of snow on high ground there. (20cm)

:eek:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/ni/ni_forecast_warnings.html

WolfeIRE

Great pics supercell. thanks for sharing

Looks like the showers coming from the north are organising themselves into a more organised band

snaps

nacho libre wrote: »

light snow falling here now( the first snow of this period) a prelude of what's to come i hope!!

wheres here?

In_tuition

snaps wrote: »

wheres here?

Was going to ask the same.

snaps

the weather radar on ME site is so unrealistic. Sometimes when it reports heavy rain where i live its not raining at all! according to that radar now it should be doing something here now for the past hour but its a clear sky as i can see the stars! And then the raintoday.co.uk radar shows the band of percipitaion more towards the east than the west, which according to me is more correct as im just south of castlebar.

Lumi

nacho libre wrote: »

light snow falling here now( the first snow of this period) a prelude of what's to come i hope!!

Lucky sod!! Nary a flake in Galway

In_tuition

WolfeIRE wrote: »

Great pics supercell. thanks for sharing

Looks like the showers coming from the north are organising themselves into a more organised band

I've been eyeing that radar for the last few hours, that band visible there now just came out of nowhere.

Thinking now whether or not to travel to Belfast this evening to do my shopping

maquiladora

WolfeIRE wrote: »

Great pics supercell. thanks for sharing

Looks like the showers coming from the north are organising themselves into a more organised band

Looks like theyve made it as far south as Atlone. Seems a good bit further south than predicted by some of the models, in fact if you were to use Netweathers GFS charts, some of those showers are in the 0% snow risk area for this time. And thats from a model run just a few hours old. Next few days will be nowcasting. :pac:

Seems to be some sleet mixed up with the snow on the precip radar : http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

nacho libre

snaps wrote: »

wheres here?

Mayo

ninebeanrows

Next few hours will be interesting to see how it develops, wudnt mind a surprise fall!

maquiladora

Air temp 3C
DP -3C

Supercell

maquiladora wrote: »

UK Met Office severe weather warning for Norther Ireland for Sunday, could be up to 8 inches of snow on high ground there. (20cm)

:eek:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/ni/ni_forecast_warnings.html

Not fair, we only got a paltry dusting when the wind was easterly!
Though I feel our time will come again over the coming week

Bog Butter

I was hoping to leave Derry for Navan now. Travelling through Tyrone Monaghan and Louth - what are the roads like on the A5 and the N2 does anybody know???

force eleven

Nothing here on the Offaly Westmeath border anyway, although the cloud has now rolled in as expected. Raintoday radar shows snow precipitation over Longford and North Westmeath, anyone in the Midlands seen anything?

jambofc

gone cloudy in trim but nothing falling out of them yet