National: Severe Cold/ Snow Discussion (Thanks to all!)

Not

Vudgie wrote: »

I think it is actually more newsworthy at this stage to confirm where the hell it isn't snowing in Dublin;)

Terenure

Mental Mickey

trogdor wrote: »

Snow getting topped up by more snow and graupel now after rain showers and a fairly intensive melt earlier. 0.6C/-0.7C

th3 s1aught3r

anyone have the link to the ATC ?

thetonynator

Read through a few pages there. Anyone else find the constant talk about 82, how it was better etc incredibly annoying? ok, so one time about 30 years ago there was some snow, and it drifted a lot. But 30 years have blurred a lot of peoples memories i think, because the range of depths and drifts described here is so wide that there is no way all of them are right. Also, would people really prefer anything between 1 and 99 feet of snow ( depending on who you believe) or a moderate amount of snow which lasts a while?

Mental Mickey

thetonynator wrote: »

Read through a few pages there. Anyone else find the constant talk about 82, how it was better etc incredibly annoying? ok, so one time about 30 years ago there was some snow, and it drifted a lot. But 30 years have blurred a lot of peoples memories i think, because the range of depths and drifts described here is so wide that there is no way all of them are right. Also, would people really prefer anything between 1 and 99 feet of snow ( depending on who you believe) or a moderate amount of snow which lasts a while?

Huh?

HellFireClub

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

anyone have the link to the ATC ?

http://www.liveatc.net/flisten.php?mount=eidw2

irish1967

Incase, like me you have kinda forgotten what green grass looks like heres a reminder

Vudgie

thetonynator wrote: »

Read through a few pages there. Anyone else find the constant talk about 82, how it was better etc incredibly annoying? ok, so one time about 30 years ago there was some snow, and it drifted a lot. But 30 years have blurred a lot of peoples memories i think, because the range of depths and drifts described here is so wide that there is no way all of them are right. Also, would people really prefer anything between 1 and 99 feet of snow ( depending on who you believe) or a moderate amount of snow which lasts a while?

I really believe that this winter will be considerably more extreme at least in terms of longevity. We have had nearly a month of this stuff at this stage with a thaw lasting only a few days in between. We have realistically a month/ month and a half during which this could be repeated (maybe not on the same scale).

thetonynator

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Huh?

There are a lot of gross exaggerations of how great 82 was on this thread.

ardmacha

Anyone else find the constant talk about 82, how it was better etc incredibly annoying? ok, so one about 30 years ago there was some snow, and it drifted a lot. But 30 years have blurred a lot of peoples memories i think, because the range of depths and drifts described here is so wide that there is no way all of them are right.

What an odd comment. Better is subjective, but more is objective. And of course the exact amount of snow varied from place to place and the extent of the drifts varied even more, so all of the descriptions could be valid.

th3 s1aught3r

thetonynator wrote: »

There are a lot of gross exaggerations of how great 82 was on this thread.

It was really bad where I lived anyway, no exaggerations necessary

irish1967

thetonynator wrote: »

There are a lot of gross exaggerations of how great 82 was on this thread.

Was that the year OwenC was born???:)

ltdslipdiff

mickger844posts wrote: »

There must be something doing that as it happens every time. Wonder why it didn't happen 3 weeks ago

Last week the front developed from a southerly direction and spun around dumping on us...I reckon if any precipitation heading our way passes over land it dries out, and the really juicy stuff from the NE skims passed us out to sea..... booooo !!!!

Speak Now

irish1967 wrote: »

Was that the year OwenC was born???:)

A few years before Owens time

Mc Love

angel01 wrote: »

From RTE:

Aer Lingus has cancelled all flights due to leave Dublin Airport after 4pm today.

All EI flights that are scheduled to leave before 4pm will still be leaving afaik

Trogdor

trogdor wrote: »

Snow getting topped up by more snow and graupel now after rain showers and a fairly intensive melt earlier. 0.6C/-0.7C

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Question?:p

delw

snowing again

dfbemt

delw wrote: »

yeah their doing another run&visual check for depth on runway

Currently snow and ice on some of the runway.

Does not sound good.

Delays on some arrivals of up to 8 hours, 12 hours for some departures.

Horrible stuff.

Inquitus

Blizzard in Swords again

ltdslipdiff

Don't mean to be a party pooper, but that front approaching from the West is really making ground....I can't see the cold Easterly winning out....

thetonynator

irish1967 wrote: »

Was that the year OwenC was born???:)

ah now that was a great year for mankind.

Not

RainToday radar image is a bit out. No snow fallen in Terenure since this afternoons thundersnow.

suitseir

ltdslipdiff wrote: »

Don't mean to be a party pooper, but that front approaching from the West is really making ground....I can't see the cold Easterly winning out....

Yippeeee! My car read -12 yesterday morning then -7 and today -2 and -3. Maybe thaw coming sooner than we think?

Mental Mickey

Yay............Palmerstown got mentioned on Nova News. Temp is -3

delw

looking at radar the airport about to get another hit

BEASTERLY

ltdslipdiff wrote: »

Don't mean to be a party pooper, but that front approaching from the West is really making ground....I can't see the cold Easterly winning out....

The easterly winds are not meant to win out

irish1967

ltdslipdiff wrote: »

Don't mean to be a party pooper, but that front approaching from the West is really making ground....I can't see the cold Easterly winning out....

It gets held up for a couple of days

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/5day-atlantic.asp

partay pooper

ltdslipdiff wrote: »

Don't mean to be a party pooper, but that front approaching from the West is really making ground....I can't see the cold Easterly winning out....

Dis someone say my name???:P

Mental Mickey

delw wrote: »

looking at radar the airport about to get another hit

I'd hate to be working out there now, or even trying to get a flight!! Horrible:(

lucernarian

thetonynator wrote: »

There are a lot of gross exaggerations of how great 82 was on this thread.

Some of the photos were shocking however. I do suspect that some of '82 was more localised than the impression given on threads.