Cold Spell Discussion (21/12/09) (Scattered snow showers today)

maquiladora

Dancing_Priest wrote: »

Muggins here is living right under that little blue dot and knows nothing about the weather. He is left wondering what it actually means, so can it really mean -10 degrees on Christmas day? Or is it a glitch?

It could be -10, but it could just as easily be -8 or -7 in the next few runs. I think the safest way to look at it is that Christmas Day could be very cold.

Pangea

thats only two schools probably on the mountain schools in ni never shut![/quote]

Plenty of schools closed in my area, more frost and ice than anything ,i dont think i ever seen the roads as bad with ice as i did today, its great for a good slide though. :pac:

Dancing_Priest

maquiladora wrote: »

It could be -10, but it could just as easily be -8 or -7 in the next few runs. I think the safest way to look at it is that Christmas Day could be very cold.

Right, so it's probably not going to be mild and damp then......


I really hope the oil man made it around today. :rolleyes:

owenc

Pangea wrote: »

thats only two schools probably on the mountain schools in ni never shut!

Plenty of schools closed in my area, more frost and ice than anything ,i dont think i ever seen the roads as bad with ice as i did today, its great for a good slide though. :pac:[/QUOTE]


were do you live?

owenc

Dancing_Priest wrote: »

Right, so it's probably not going to be mild and damp then......


I really hope the oil man made it around today. :rolleyes:

yea some mild spell this is maxes going down now to around -1/2c upto and on christmas day then going upto only 2c so this is no mild spell thank god.. will likely change!

maquiladora

Dancing_Priest wrote: »

Right, so it's probably not going to be mild and damp then......


I really hope the oil man made it around today. :rolleyes:

Well it could get mild later on Xmas day / stephens day. It's all fairly unpredictable.

Ricky91t

Temperature reached a Today all time low just now -.2c

Sierra Oscar

Should we be expecting any more snow around North Tipperary/Limerick areas tonight?

Pangea

owenc wrote: »

Plenty of schools closed in my area, more frost and ice than anything ,i dont think i ever seen the roads as bad with ice as i did today, its great for a good slide though. :pac:

were do you live?[/quote]
sorry if i mislead u , i dont live in the english invaded part of northern ireland , i live in the irish part of northern ireland that is donegal lol, But i can see how schools wouldnt be closed up at yous , theres better roads up there and plus its not run by the irish!

maquiladora

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Should we be expecting any more snow around North Tipperary/Limerick areas tonight?

Met Eireann says "the odd wintry shower in western coastal districts". Doesn't sound too promising.

owenc

Pangea wrote: »

were do you live?

sorry if i mislead u , i dont live in the english invaded part of northern ireland , i live in the irish part of northern ireland that is donegal lol, But i can see how schools wouldnt be closed up at yous , theres better roads up there and plus its not run by the irish! [/QUOTE]

what are you talkig about......:rolleyes:

Pangea

owenc wrote: »

sorry if i mislead u , i dont live in the english invaded part of northern ireland , i live in the irish part of northern ireland that is donegal lol, But i can see how schools wouldnt be closed up at yous , theres better roads up there and plus its not run by the irish!

what are you talkig about......:rolleyes:[/quote]
Judging by your question to where i lived i thought u assumed i lived in northern ireland and that loads of schools where closed there .
Rolling ur eyes is rude

:rolleyes::P

TheMilkyPirate

WolfeIRE wrote: »

hehe. you are like leslie neilson in Airplane who keeps coming in to the cockpit during the emergency landing saying ' Just to let you know, we are all counting on you'

Lol, Great film!

Although no snow it's -1.8c here already near Arklow.
The ice today is so hard it can take my full weight!

Sierra Oscar

Some of the foot paths around Limerick City will be lethal tonight, I was slipping around on them and that was only at 4PM.

-2.2c now
dropping fast!

snaps

Blimey its dropping like a stone out there, ive got beer outside in "Gods fridge" what temp does beer freeze (5%)? May have to get it inside!

I'm pretty sure the last time I saw beer freeze , it was at the top of the red run in livigno and it was around -18c..
Think you might be safe enough on that score

ltdslipdiff

-1.5c here in Waterford and dropping fast....

ninebeanrows

Icing over quickly out there tonight, going to be a real cold one methinks.

Wonder what will stop the fall? No cloud, very light winds off the land.

Could get to -5c here i reckon.

snaps

Never seen the temp drop as it is at the moment. gone from .5c to -1.4c in less than an hour!

ninebeanrows

UKM have that feature for Wednesday too.

Deep Easterly

-0.5c here with a light but freezing fog. Any ice melt on the roads today is well and truly frozen over now. Can barely even walk on the paths not mind drive.

ltdslipdiff

-2c now with a freezing fog to boot !

Drummer Mummer

0 deg right now and cloudy, light westerly winds. Not a snow flake in sight and no frost either.

irish1967

Oooooh Donegal got a mention on 6.1 news.
Hope we get it as bad as he says.
big freeze fit us all to new year says the man

Villain

Six One Forecast

Cold to last until New Years eve, temp will drop back again 27th after some slightly milder weather

rain or snow xmas day not sure yet but winds turn back North then. Freezing fog could last all day in the coming days

TomTom

It's passing -2 here in offaly, feels like it will go much lower. The yard of loose stones feels like concrete here, they are frozen together, even jumping on them will not displace them

Rougies

Nice educational forecast from the Eagle there....I hope you were all watching

Also a positive forecast in terms of the cold continuing into the New Year and possible snow later this week (for the rest of the country)

IMBACKLATER

john eagleton of met eireann has suggested that the forecast mild spell during christmas day and st. stephens day will be temporary with a return to northerly winds there after and a dip in temperatures. He also said there is a possibilty of snow on christmas day but that they were uncertain at the moment.

roryc1

Good evening all
from listening to the eagle, "not sure what will happen" dose that sound like we might have a battle ground situation on are hands on thurs/fri

Rougies

roryc1 wrote: »

Good evening all
from listening to the eagle, "not sure what will happen" dose that sound like we might have a battle ground situation on are hands on thurs/fri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNB1EUJg1-w

Villain

Breakdown snow can be amazing, only problem is it can be go one way or another and you never know until its over really. Still a hour or two of serious snow before Rain would be nice to see. Freezing Fog could be serious over the next few days

leahyl

Hey my dad said he just heard on rte radio that the forecasting snow for south on Wednesday?! Just watched tv forecast tho and no mention of it. Oh I hope we get some!:)

Rougies

leahyl wrote: »

Hey my dad said he just heard on rte radio that the forecasting snow for south on Wednesday?! Just watched tv forecast tho and no mention of it. Oh I hope we get some!:)

Hey welcome back Leahyl!

Rougies wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNB1EUJg1-w

cian1500ww

We haven't had any snow since this morning, will we get more this evening, tonight ?? I see there's some rain moving down from the North West, any chances of it bringing us snow ?? Can never have enough snow

mad DIY

RainToday suggesting snow showers bubbling up in east Cork, Waterford, and south Tipp areas at the moment

More likely WiFi interference or is something happening ? Anyone in Callan ?

ninebeanrows

leahyl wrote: »

Hey my dad said he just heard on rte radio that the forecasting snow for south on Wednesday?! Just watched tv forecast tho and no mention of it. Oh I hope we get some!:)

A small low is expected to move up from the south up into the irish sea through Wednesday but its such a fickle thing that it won't be suggested in forecasts till tomorrow due to uncertainty.

It could be the snow the east crave for, how far north it gets and how marginal it will be are up in the air.

roryc1

Rougies wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNB1EUJg1-w

What are you trying to say

owenc

mild 2c maxes arnt mild is this just for the south?

I was just wondering if some of you do what I do..
I keep looking out the window, at the lamp post mostly looking for flakes, even though I know we aing getting any.:)

roryc1

Jake1 wrote: »

I was just wondering if some of you do what I do..
I keep looking out the window, at the lamp post mostly looking for flakes, even though I know we aing getting any.:)

Sounds like you have snow flu, a few days in Leitrim should clear that up

irish1967

Ah! Is this the famous leagyl returnth? Your famed enthusiasm has been mentioned often. A pleasure to meet you!!

Pangea

snaps wrote: »

Blimey its dropping like a stone out there, ive got beer outside in "Gods fridge" what temp does beer freeze (5%)? May have to get it inside!

Ha Ha classic post mate, Im gona leave out a bottle tonight and see how it goes, this weather is handy actually, Was gona buy another freezer to hold some of the extra christmas stuff but as u said just chuck it outside and we are good to go

People talking about the cold spell going into new year, thats great news.

leahyl

Rougies wrote: »

Hey welcome back Leahyl!

Thanks Rougies! Ya i won't stop believin;) I had pretty much lost all hope that we'd have snow until my dad told me that and i looked at Eagleton on the forecast (and he said he "wasn't sure yet"!) that made me have hope again ha:)

glossy

Jake1 wrote: »

I was just wondering if some of you do what I do..
I keep looking out the window, at the lamp post mostly looking for flakes, even though I know we aing getting any.:)

lol, your as bad as me .... im in D15 area

leahyl

irish1967 wrote: »

Ah! Is this the famous leagyl returnth? Your famed enthusiasm has been mentioned often. A pleasure to meet you!!

FAMOUS?! Oh god i better be careful what i say now in future;)!

arctictree

Jake1 wrote: »

I was just wondering if some of you do what I do..
I keep looking out the window, at the lamp post mostly looking for flakes, even though I know we aing getting any.:)

LOL - my dog even does it now! (He races to look out the window whenever I turn on the floodlight!)

roryc1

leahyl wrote: »

FAMOUS?! Oh god i better be careful what i say now in future;)![/QUOT

And where were you young woman, we where all worried sick,

Pangea

Was out for a walk there , the roads are incredibly bad! Plus seen lightening too, three big flashes while it was sleeting at the same time.