The Big Freeze ( Sunday 10th January )

SeaFields

Right folks I'm off to work. This is going to be an interesting drive to work. And I bet we'll be busy too :rolleyes:

To my fellow Corkonians....we believed and its worked!!

Enjoy the shensnowanigans!!

Old Man WInters

ME saying Leinster will get in on that 5-10cm snow!!

vodafoneproblem

Hey guys. Another one who's been drawn to this forum over the past while because of this weather. I am a thaw supporter. Sorry, snow fans! I am sick of risking life and limb and car driving on these roads and it's been getting me stressed and depressed. Go, thaw, go!

By the way, does anyone know why they say the temperature has to get above 4 degrees for the thaw to kick in? Doesn't ice/snow melt at 0C or is it a matter of it getting significantly faster above 4C?

445279.ie

Been snowing here in Newcastle West for the last 3 hours

patneve

latest met office radar shows precipitation coming up the irish sea and becoming moderate in some small batches E/S/E of Dublin...temp falling dew point fell now is stable

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/

HashSlinging

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Snow flurries in Rathdrum. for little more than 5 mins now.

My reverse psychology worked yay!

redsteveireland

nothing but horrible grauple here all day:mad: where's my snow? give it back cork:p

Old Man WInters

vodafoneproblem wrote: »

Hey guys. Another one who's been drawn to this forum over the past while because of this weather. I am a thaw supporter. Sorry, snow fans! I am sick of risking life and limb and car driving on these roads and it's been getting me stressed and depressed. Go, thaw, go!

By the way, does anyone know why they say the temperature has to get above 4 degrees for the thaw to kick in? Doesn't ice/snow melt at 0C or is it a matter of it getting significantly faster above 4C?

Oh great... our own localised Panto Villain!

lindtee

I'm delira and ag sire. Waited so long for this snow and finally got it. Boys having a ball outside (cold and wet) while I look out at them from the window!:pac: No-one has made tyre marks on the road yet, and they'd better not. Its snow nice!

Trotter

Seems to be sleet in Waterford now. I've noticed a lot of water dripping from the car. 1.2 degrees outside now. Theres plenty accumulated so if the forecasted snow arrives tonight and what's left has frozen, roads will be awful in Waterford tomorrow.

Take it easy out there lads and ladies.

Sauvblanc

It's just kicked off in Dublin and it's heavy!!

jay28

Snowing here I was expecting rain

patneve

temperature is now at 3.9 was at 4.5 1 hour ago....f-off thaw:D (Dalkey)

Deep Easterly

HashSlinging wrote: »

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Snow flurries in Rathdrum. for little more than 5 mins now.

My reverse psychology worked yay!

Sorry for being thick, but where is Rathdrum?

Villain

Week forecast on now

kleefarr

thetonynator wrote: »

I cannot believe the perfect snow shield going around my part of kilkenny:mad::mad::mad:

Have only had a few flakes all morning!!!:mad:

Shame.

This is what it looks like from my front door, after the couple of hours we had this morning.

Kilkenny City outskirts..



Getting a bit darker again, so could be some more on the way.

Temp got up to 0.4 but has now dropped again..

Temperature: 0.3 °C
Dew Point: 0.0 °C

H2UMrsRobinson

Sauvblanc wrote: »

It's just kicked off in Dublin and it's heavy!!

A full hour ahead of the bishops schedule. You better not be messin' :eek:

Tom Cruises Left Nut

Gerry on the farming forecast now

Has called a nationwide snow event for later

vodafoneproblem

Old Man WInters wrote: »

Oh great... our own localised Panto Villain!

Didn't quite mean it like that! Maybe we should have a paintball game of the Snowers versus the Thawers!

oldmillgal

Gerry on rte says we get 5-10cm of snow yipee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):):):):):):):):):)

Toto Wolfcastle

vodafoneproblem wrote: »

Hey guys. Another one who's been drawn to this forum over the past while because of this weather. I am a thaw supporter. Sorry, snow fans! I am sick of risking life and limb and car driving on these roads and it's been getting me stressed and depressed. Go, thaw, go!

I agree with you. While I'm glad it has started snowing here in Cork, I was pretty much stuck in my boyfriend's house for a week in D15 and only just managed to escape before the snow hit again the other day. I'm glad it's thawing out where he lives because really it's a nuisance when it goes on for so long.

But then again, the snow in Cork is lovely!

dollybird09

Sauvblanc wrote: »

It's just kicked off in Dublin and it's heavy!!

where?

jenzz

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Sorry for being thick, but where is Rathdrum?

Wickla

Villain

They are calling Tuesdays event Sleet and Snow!!!

snaps

Deep Easterly wrote: »

I hope WolfeIRE is seeing something by now. Nothing here at the moment.

im above 0 for the 1st time in about a week! Currently 0.2c, That percip is so close i can smell it! I can see darker clouds to the south of me, blue sky to the NW of me!

patneve

3,8 falling darker clouds rolling in from a very rough Irish sea (Dalkey)

ninebeanrows

All my beautiful snow is all but gone now.

I suppose things even themselves out, wasn't expecting that amazing fall last night of powder snow (8cm's) so it was inevitable that today would always be a disappointed just a shame the thaw was so extensive.

Glad to see the Corkonians and people down south are getting their share!

dollybird09

dollybird09 wrote: »

where?

I second this.

Nothing here in Cabinteely.

jenzz

dollybird09 wrote: »

where?

+1

LookingFor

dollybird09 wrote: »

where?

My guess is somewhere south in the county.

I think most of dublin up has been too far north for this band. So we've just had the outskirts of it with drizzly stuff or the odd attached shower off the main band that's going east west across the south of the country.

I hope if this band starts a northward track that it won't bring a tonne of rain here