Big Freeze Discussion (Friday 8/1/10)

Carpenter

WolfeIRE wrote: »

That sentence is is just one punctuation mark away from being forwarded to the Gardai

LOL

thetonynator

jenzz wrote: »

So the bambinos basicly wont be going back to school next Thursday Yeah?
It also basicly means I need to learn how to make that packet of Odlums brown bread mix ( no bread anywhere)

Just add water!!!:D

Or is it milk?? It says it on the front of the packet!!!

pretty-in-pink

all the snow everywhere. doesn't look like ireland

Carpenter

CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »

Might have to do that should the snow get above 4-5ins, as it is though it works great on the snow we got.

Sweet looking job by the way fair play they will love it

jenzz

thetonynator wrote: »

Just add water!!!:D

Or is it milk?? It says it on the front of the packet!!!

Eh I cant bake/cook

Better bleedin learn & fast - That was my emergency rations pak

thetonynator

jenzz wrote: »

Eh I cant bake/cook

Better bleedin learn & fast - That was my emergency rations pak

No microwave pizzas left in the supermarket???:D

jenzz

Carpenter wrote: »

For the kid to have a great day screw some hardboard to the bottom and Spread the weight

Well lets just say a certain group of principals & teachers spent the day in a certain town in disguise on biscuit lids....

Absolute classic - But I did hear in the wind sledge making classes were underway by the muinteoirs tonight

SpitfireIV

Carpenter wrote: »

Sweet looking job by the way fair play they will love it

Cheers Carpenter! Its only a quick job, and the only reason it came about was because I had those two runners (ash) left over from a project that went wrong, I was shaping them on the router table, the blade caught them and tore the grain. I'd love to make a really sweet one if we were guarenteed a good snowfall every year. You know, all laminated and steam bent, sweet!!

Oops, sorry, this is the weather forum.......:p

irish1967

Hmmm page 125. The thread went doolally at this stage last night. .

Holding at -5.4 here in donegal town.

jenzz

thetonynator wrote: »

No microwave pizzas left in the supermarket???:D

I was whinging here last night

1. 4km trip by foot there & back ( we in the ****s here really)
2. No milk/bread/cheese/pizza/etc etc in fact they had SFA

I ended up with Tesco value eggs x 12 & 2 packs of tesco Oxtail soup.....

Oh OH Oh & remember my experiment on the Brennans bread- well Iput it out on the window sill & it did freeze - solid block.....

nacho libre

CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »

A cousin of mine lives in Tullow........the coldest part of Ireland!! He took a few pics of the area.









Looks cold doesnt it!

to quote the great Ace Ventura: Spectacular! This land holds great beauty!

and just because i'm in the mood for Ace Ventura, my personal favourite: We are all children...

...of the same life force.

Yes, of course we are.

He bends over and speaks from his rear.

Oh, him.

Right this way.

SpitfireIV

jenzz wrote: »

Well lets just say a certain group of principals & teachers spent the day in a certain town in disguise on biscuit lids....

Absolute classic - But I did hear in the wind sledge making classes were underway by the muinteoirs tonight

What direction was the wind coming from??! north, east??!! was it carrying precip? Any chance of showers forming in the Irish sea and being brought inland on it???!!??!

Carpenter

jenzz wrote: »

Well lets just say a certain group of principals & teachers spent the day in a certain town in disguise on biscuit lids....

Absolute classic - But I did hear in the wind sledge making classes were underway by the muinteoirs tonight

In 82 I made loads of them and had some great fun on them too
Hardboard is the way to go I can tell you :D:D.

poolsupporter

Rambling rose wrote: »

there will be no 'thaw' talk around here

apply positive thinking!!!
if it thaws it will melt, if it stays freezing it will stay stiff!!

the choice is yours, be positive or negative???

jprboy

Met.ie radar showing precip over North Laois for last few hours ??

Anyone able to shed any light on this? Ta

naughto

is this 126

WolfeIRE

http://www.yr.no/satellitt/1.5941760

load the above run. Our Sunday/Monday snow machine is currently taxi-ing and turning its sights on us from Corisca. Actually I think we should christen our system 'Corsica'.

On a separate note, the following pics were taken by the Limerick Leader in Foynes today. The long awaited salt shipment from N Engalnd was forced to dock in Foynes because of dense freezing fog in Limerick City.




Didn't spot anyone selling hats, scarves and headbands there. what a missed opportunity!!

irish1967

naughto wrote: »

is this 126

Lol

-5.5 Donegal town.

WolfeIRE

jprboy wrote: »

Met.ie radar showing precip over North Laois for last few hours ??

Anyone able to shed any light on this? Ta

freezing fog most likely. If not then Fossy Mountain is showing its crown to the radar

Mobhi1

jprboy wrote: »

Met.ie radar showing precip over North Laois for last few hours ??

Anyone able to shed any light on this? Ta

Fog?

thetonynator

jprboy wrote: »

Met.ie radar showing precip over North Laois for last few hours ??

Anyone able to shed any light on this? Ta

Radar appears to be slightly b******d atm, lots of dots and lines and syringes i was told earlier. Prob no precip there. It appeared out of nowhere earlier on, disappeared again and has reappeared now. Also, despite the wind, it doesn't move anywhere, so I'd say its not precip!!!

irish1967

Is there any chance that Corsica will make it to Donegal? Everyone has it stopping south of me.

Slippin Jimmy

Hey guys. Just on here. Been away for a few hours. Does anyone care to give me a quick update on what is happening and get me up to speed? I'll even give ya a thanks

WolfeIRE

Mobhi1 wrote: »

Fog?

I am presuming you know what fog is so just to add that dense freezing fog can easily show up on radar as it ahs done so throughout the week on the ME radar and the UKMO radar. It's either that or there is a UFO over Portlaoise.

Rougies

Carpenter wrote: »

In 82 I made loads of them and had some great fun on them too
Hardboard is the way to go I can tell you :D:D.

Hardwood is good. Plastic is even better. But if you really want to break some downhill speed records, non-chloric silicone based kitchen lubricant is the way to go!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo58oWW09qQ

Dublin_Gunner

Queen-Mise wrote: »

Ah well - we are all stuck in doors - we do what we must to entertain ourselves :D

The temperatures have been rising in some of the weather stations during the past hour e.g Oak Park, Johnstown, Newbridge - would there be any particular reason for this.

I'd call an emergency carpenter TBH

WolfeIRE wrote: »

http://www.yr.no/satellitt/1.5941760

load the above run. Our Sunday/Monday snow machine is currently taxi-ing and turning its sights on us from Corisca. Actually I think we should christen our system 'Corsica'.

Thats a nice animation. Doesn't give me much hope for snow though Its like we're in our own little cloudless bubble

gazzer

Im due to be doing a lot of driving in cavan over the next 3 days. Anybody here know if snow is due here?

WolfeIRE

irish1967 wrote: »

Is there any chance that Corsica will make it to Donegal? Everyone has it stopping south of me.

every chance Irish. Not until later sunday night or early monday morn. It will be a very slow moving system once it hits about 50 miles inland. I think you will see snow at some stage early next week anyways if this system does not hit you.

F-Stop

Duffff-Man wrote: »

Hey guys. Just on here. Been away for a few hours. Does anyone care to give me a quick update on what is happening and get me up to speed? I'll even give ya a thanks

Schools closing until thursday. No salt to grit roads - major routes will be shutdown. Bloody cold - Villain is going to smash the record tongight. The heavy heavy snow on Sunday/Monday will be followed by the zombie apocalypse. At least that's what I got from the forecast on RTE.

WolfeIRE

gazzer wrote: »

Im due to be doing a lot of driving in cavan over the next 3 days. Anybody here know if snow is due here?

being the record holding county for average snow days every year, you would guess so. You are more likely to see snow than Irish I would say. Precip amounts will be small by the time it reaches you. You could get a hammering on Tuesday or Wednesday though as a system pushes up from the south west