Extreme weather

eth0

If you could get more extreme weather brought to Ireland what type would it be? Not a massive fan of the heat myself but I get fierce tired of the miserable rainy and drizzly weather we get here.

Used to enjoy the odd spot of floodgazing every year when the road at home used to flood. Houses around my area were all alright but it wasn't so good for people in other parts of the country who actually couldn't stop the water from getting into their house.

Still I think if floods were more regular (or any extreme weather) people would quickly get used to it, you'd see a lot more people with small boats to get the shopping during the flood season. It only causes trouble when people aren't used to it. Still you'll get people who think they don't have to do anything and its all the council's fault, its always good craic listening to them moaning on Joe Duffy as well.

I wouldn't mind a good dose of snow every year around christmas time for a few weeks. If it happened every year I'd get an ould snowmobile it would be mighty craic tearing up and down the road with one of them

Scioch

Proper dose of snow every Christmas would be the job.

1ZRed

Why wouldn't you want something other than a bit of heat?

I think people forget that you acclimatise to heat. We can't because it comes out of nowhere. Give us a more stable climate and we'd be good though

paddy147

An F5 twister ripping through Leinster House while all the FG/Labour gobshytes are in it..:D

Scioch

1ZRed wrote: »

Why wouldn't you want something other than a bit of heat?

I think people forget that you acclimatise to heat. We can't because it comes out of nowhere. Give us a more stable climate and we'd be good though

Heat is overrated, all you really need is a warm/dry day with a blue sky.

girl in the striped socks

I would prefer if the temperature was 5-6 degrees everyday, with no rain.
I like cold weather.

NegativeCreep

I'd like more flooding please. My house is never affected by flooding and I like to watch the people in the canoes on the telly I also enjoy the misery of my fellow human being when their house gets destroyed.

alwaysadub

I wouldn't like to have extreme weather, don't like it too hot, floods would just be annoying, and get sick of snow after the first day.
In saying that, i do like a good thunderstorm, so wouldn't say no to a few of them.

paddy147

Scioch wrote: »

Proper dose of snow every Christmas would be the job.

This is me sitting on a plane for 4 hours at Dublin Airport and snowbound on Christmas Eve a few Christmass,es ago.:(

Gee Bag

Regular heavy golden showers so the entire country gets blasted with piss.

BUBBLE WRAP

What my favorite movie? TWISTER!

starbelgrade

I was out cutting the grass earlier in the sunshine. It's now pissing down out of the heavens.

That's about as extreme a weather as I would want.

paddy147

Gee Bag wrote: »

Regular heavy golden showers so the entire country gets blasted with piss.

Thats a "hole" different thread there.

Captain Chaos

starbelgrade wrote: »

I was out cutting the grass earlier in the sunshine. It's now pissing down out of the heavens.

That's about as extreme a weather as I would want.

Haven't seen the sun since Friday here.

Give me some extreme thunder though. Loads of fork lightening at night, great to watch.

BUBBLE WRAP

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Haven't seen the sun since Friday here.

Give me some extreme thunder though. Loads of fork lightening at night, great to watch.

I thought Ireland only gets flash lightening? I thought America gets the fork lightening.

1ZRed

Scioch wrote: »

Heat is overrated, all you really need is a warm/dry day with a blue sky.

No I like being hot thanks

Cú Giobach

For the first time ever I voted atari jaguar in a poll, because....
Heatwave........Fecks me up.
Flooding............Fecks up your house.
Thunder storms....Fecks up my water pump with power cuts
Snow..........Fecks up food deliveries to the local shop and getting to nearest big town for same.
Hurricanes.......Fecks everything up
Something else.....Fecks something else up.
Atari jaguar....Just plain fecked up, not a problem.

Hal1

Briing back the deadly summer supercell storms of '85/'86.

mauzo

I fooking love snow.....

Hal1

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

I thought Ireland only gets flash lightening? I thought America gets the fork lightening.

It's rare enough to get a decent storm but we do on occassion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGqvdl5ImZc

paddy147

syndeyfife wrote: »

I fooking love snow.....

Its not all that great,especially when you are running low on supplies.:(

Herb Powell

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

I thought Ireland only gets flash lightening? I thought America gets the fork lightening.

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There's no difference in the lightning, only that some occurs within clouds, and some jumps clearly to the ground

paddy147

we get fork lightening regulary.

This out accross Dublin Bay last year

nbar12

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

I would prefer if the temperature was 5-6 degrees everyday, with no rain.
I like cold weather.

I don't like you

Ghandee

I'm a thunder and lightening man myself.

Nothing like lying in bed on a dark night, watching the room illuminate to the lightening flashes, with the growl of thunder in the distance.

I'd choose to watch that over a movie any time.

eth0

paddy147 wrote: »

Its not all that great,especially when you are running low on supplies.:(

No supplies is your own fault. If you can expect a good dose of snow every year people will have supplies

paddy147

eth0 wrote: »

No supplies is your own fault. If you can expect a good dose of snow every year people will have supplies

Can you even read a persons post before you comment???:rolleyes:

I never said no supplies.

I posted and said..... "running low on supplies"......as in about a months worth of supplies that were allmost gone,as we had planned for the snowfall that was forecast by Met Eireann.

The last time (prior to 2 and 3 winters ago) we got a heavy prolonged snow was 1981.

Mr. Manager

Living in Malta it's been about 35° - 38° everyday for the past 3 months so a bit of snow would be cool I guess.

nbar12

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

Living in Malta it's been about 35° - 38° everyday for the past 3 months so a bit of snow would be cool I guess.

serious? I want to go to Malta so bad, is it dirt cheap over there?

Mr. Manager

nbar12 wrote: »

serious? I want to go to Malta so bad, is it dirt cheap over there?

Yea, it's been pretty good. I forgot what rain looks like. Haven't seen any since about March/April.

Had a heatwave about 2 weeks ago. Heat index of 51°!!

Apart from cars, it's pretty dirt cheap! Living in a palace for €420 a month including bills. If I can root out pics I posted before in a different thread I'll post em here.

Mr. Manager

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

Yea, it's been pretty good. I forgot what rain looks like. Haven't seen any since about March/April.

Had a heatwave about 2 weeks ago. Heat index of 51°!!

Apart from cars, it's pretty dirt cheap! Living in a palace for €420 a month including bills. If I can root out pics I posted before in a different thread I'll post em here.

Found the pics.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78106943&postcount=1102

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78106951&postcount=1103

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78106958&postcount=1104

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78106964&postcount=1105

The garage now has some weights, a punchbag and a table tennis table

El Guapo!

Holy shít man that's a nice Gaf!!

Mr. Manager

Dean09 wrote: »

Holy shít man that's a nice Gaf!!

Thanks man.

To keep on topic - the pool is a necessity for the heat

El Guapo!

I'd love a climate like Florida. Scorching heat peppered with awesome thunderstorms and the odd hurricane once in a while. Perfect!

Shryke

Beautiful place, I love it. I might have to get myself to Malta for a while. Not to drag the thread off topic but what has you staying in Malta? Are you there long term? And er.. something about severe weather... does it get very very hot?

Mr. Manager

Shryke wrote: »

Beautiful place, I love it. I might have to get myself to Malta for a while. Not to drag the thread off topic but what has you staying in Malta? Are you there long term? And er.. something about severe weather... does it get very very hot?

Cheers

I got laid off back in October.

I specialise in Online Gaming and there isn't/wasn't much going in Ireland so I moved here. Plan do about 3/4 years here. So far it's been amazing.

Back on topic of extreme weather - yea, it gets horrible at night time, never really drops below about 26-28. Just constantly sticky from sweat even though I'm watching telly! 2-3 showers a day

Washington Irving

Snow, preferably. I'd take anything but heatwaves though

dermiek

paddy147 wrote: »

This is me sitting on a plane for 4 hours at Dublin Airport and snowbound on Christmas Eve a few Christmass,es ago.:(

I've looked long and hard at those photos, and I can't see you.

:pac:

Sauve

I love extreme weather of any kind except extreme heat, I can't handle that.
In small doses mind, the novelty of floods/snow/storms starts to wear thin after a few days and begins to encroach on normal life.

jamo2oo9

Rain and sunshine in Spring, plenty of sun and a little bit of breeze in the Summer, windy, damp days in Autumn and a lot of snow in Winter. My ideal weather timetable

hairyprincess

paddy147 wrote: »

Scioch wrote: »

Proper dose of snow every Christmas would be the job.

This is me sitting on a plane for 4 hours at Dublin Airport and snowbound on Christmas Eve a few Christmass,es ago.:(

Did anybody ever tell you that you look like an aeroplane?

Shenshen

Thunder storms.
I really miss these over here...

paddy147

dermiek wrote: »

I've looked long and hard at those photos, and I can't see you.

:pac:

Couldnt fit my fat head between the Aer Lingus plane window and get the DHL plane in the same shot too.;):D

I managed to get the very last flight out of Dublin later on on Christmas Eve and had Christmass in London with family and friends..(just about).