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

heybaby

blizzard again dublin city centre

Strings

Mc Love wrote: »

ATC havent said its closed yet!?

Yes thats weird how did RTE get away with broadcasting that?

caseyann

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Cant see anything, is it a link documenting record snowfalls

Here you go

http://www.casttv.com/video/qatv8x/dublin-snow-jan-1982-video

Sorry i cant put up videos for some reason.

rovers2001

serious serious snow falling now D11.

Strings

Why are they diverting to Manchester why not Shannon or Cork

Mitch Buchannon

Mc Love wrote: »

ATC havent said its closed yet!?

Dublin Airport confirmed closed until midnight.

TheMilkyPirate

Strings wrote: »

Yes thats weird how did RTE get away with broadcasting that?

Eh because a spokeswoman for the DAA said live on national television that they were closing.

Not

Mc Love wrote: »

ATC havent said its closed yet!?

ATC have been saying the runway is closed for a while now. 10cm of snow on it and snowing heavyly, clearing ops cant commence until snow stops.

RasTa

Might as well build a

CiaraBohs

blanchardstown has had moderate to heavy snowfall the last couple of hours with medium to large snowflakes ... gotten a little finer now though

Mc Love

Mitch Buchannon wrote: »

Dublin Airport confirmed closed until midnight.

Not on daa or rte.ie

ATC confirmed closed for another 4 hours just there!

angel01

From Dublin Airport Twitter:

Weather permitting we hope to resume flight operations at 19.30. Our snow and ice crews are working flat out to clear the runway.

Not

ATC : closed for 4 hours

Edit : cant post quick enough !

Gamesnash.ie: Pat

angel01 wrote: »

From Dublin Airport Twitter:

Weather permitting we hope to resume flight operations at 19.30. Our snow and ice crews are working flat out to clear the runway.

Stand by for another tweet shortly confirming closing to midnight

Poly

RasTa wrote: »

Might as well build a

minister for health?

LookingFor

Heavy snow now. Possibly around about as heavy as we've had through the whole spell.

So much for cleared driveways...

snowbabe

Have a look at "your daily weather forcast " MTC has put up a weather update at 6pm,will answer alot of your questions on here:)

Slashermcguirk

Substantial snowfall in city centre

lucernarian

John.Icy wrote: »

No,No,No,No, and No.

Ah long time no see John. What was that you said a few days ago about that places along the east coast would be lucky to see over 3cm over this week?

M.T. Cranium called some of the mesoscale features incorrectly for last weekend. On main synoptics and with medium-term forecasts apart from the extent of last weekend's snowfalls, he's been pretty decent. On the other hand, Met Eireann's forecasts seem to change not with model runs but with change of duty forecasters and they insisted on a thaw by the end of Christmas Eve which they successively pushed back to St. Stephen's day.

Also, where they tried to be specific this morning by putting out a notice for 1-3cm of snow in parts of Leinster, subsequently revised upwards to 2-5cm, a number of locations (crucially the airport included) have seen more than this today so far. I'm not exactly sure what you're saying "no" to but certainly over the last few days Peter has called it better than Met Éireann has, and certainly with more detail.

Edit: I misquoted, John said that he wouldn't rule out 3 inches. I mentioned at the time that I wouldn't be suprised if a few inches fell (6, to put a number on what was in my head at the time). Mind you, I still didn't call the maximum depth but it appears to be that events were also more localised than 3 weeks ago so far this week.

El Horseboxo

Possibly the heaviest snowfall we've had in the spell falling now in the north of Finglas. Not too far from the airport. Huge chunks and falling like torrential rain in a breeze for the past 40 mins or so. Reminds me of the heavy falls we used to get in Minnesota.

havana

Pelting it down in Dublin 8. Really heavy!!

CiaraBohs

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Substantial snowfall in city centre

http://www.guinness-storehouse.com/WeatherCam.aspx

picture speaks a thousand words

Noopti

Very heavy in Santry, nice big flakes

Mental Mickey

Yet more snow in D20. Sky gone back to that weird pink/red colour again!

Speak Now

caseyann wrote: »

Here you go

http://www.casttv.com/video/qatv8x/dublin-snow-jan-1982-video

Sorry i cant put up videos for some reason.

Thanks but I’m looking for actual data which shows how bad it was, i.e percipictaton and temps.
As I recall the event was an east and south east event. I remember drifts as big in the Waterford/Kilkenny/Wexford area but the consensus here seems to be it was almost a Dublin only event. I recall during this event Kilkenny recorded a record low of ground temp at its time of -18.1.

weeder

no de-icing fluid in shannon :eek:

LookingFor

Mad snow now. Very poor visibility. As bad as anything on Tuesday.

Looking at the radar there doesn't seem to be any imminent let up.

Grace16

Crazy snow here in Finglas for the last 15 to 20 minutes. It's been pelting down the whole time.

tonybear

Shannon a non runner now due to running out of de icer. Everyone now diverting to Cork!

Mc Love

Cork is going to be a car park again. Not surprised about Shannon - they let so many people go the last few months, they hardly planned for this event!