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LET IT SNOW AND BE COLD!!!***RAMPING THREAD***Mod Note #1193#2705
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Yup that's the stuff that I dream about..Problem123456 wrote: »Pitty its way into FI[/Quote
I know yes but it has happened before,imagine pure cold either side of us.
This will go down in history!
I has to happen again maybe it will be this year
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maquiladora wrote: »While we're waiting for the latest charts. Here is a look at the re-analysis charts of the days of heavy snow in February 1947. Obviously there were no computers then, these are done by putting in all the recorded weather data available at the time and getting the computer to then assemble it into charts similar to what we see in weather models today.
Feb 2nd:
Since this is the RAMPING thread i shall leave this piece here to drool upon..
A piece from the book Ireland's Arctic Siege .February
On saturday 1 February , Captain S. G Hickman and his crew of thirty-five on the Irish Plane , a 7000 ton vessel , were on a routine voyage from Swansea to Cork with a cargo of Coal. Seas were mildly choppy , nothing unusual.
It Was not until 1948 that the Met Service assumed responsibility for the weather forecasts broadcast on Radio Eiréann , up to then provided from London , and it was not until 1952 that it began to supply forecasts to the newspapers . Instead the papers often relied on their own "weather experts" , "weather prophets" some preferred to call them, with mild derision . ON this weekend they had forecast no storms.
Unknown to those on land and at sea , during the afternoon there began a mighty struggle between two behemoths : warm , moisture -laden clouds and winds from the south-west off the Atlantic , and powerful , invading , frigid east winds from the high-pressure zone to the anti-cyclonic north. In such a confrontation the colliding systems do not intermingle , as the high pressure to the north and east of Britain and Ireland provided a block to the movement of depressions. As a consequence , the warm , moist air is forced to rise over the denser cold air , until it can no longer hold its moisture , creating a classic condition for potential violent , blizzard weather.
Some time around 8pm ., with winds raging at 60mph , the Irish Plane ( name of the SHIP ) , fighting mountainous seas , "ran into the hurricane" as one crew member put it. It was driven aground about 50 yards from a steep cliff . Meanwhile in DUblin people were flocking to cinemas , theatres and dancehalls , unconcerned as a " gale steadily rose" and temperature fell. W.H Booth and J O Brien , SUnday Independent van drivers , were expecting a normal night of deliveries to distant counties .
At 1.30 am on SUnday morning the Blizzard began . By 2.30 am snow was falling at a rate of more than an inch per hour , sticking thickly to every surface . As " the blizzard raged during the night , " in the words of the irish Independent , the snow " plastered against walls and tres as firmly as if it were put on with a trowel " Before long Booth and O Brien found themselves marooned in a deep snowdrift in Co.Kilkenny . Dubliners awoke on Sunday morning Flabbergasted to "find the city bogged in snow" drifts reaching five to six feet deep . Transport was paralysed and telephone and telegraph communications in a shambles . Much of the ESB's system was down creating general condition of " havoc" in the capital.
Life in the countryside was brought to a standstill as heavy snow and high houses. In Co.Carlow , Jim Nolan had gone to bed on Saturday night with the sound of the wind screaming , "as if it was coming from some big blower in the heavens" . When he arose next morning , " I could not believe my eyes - all i could see were the tops of trees covered by huge drifts! "
A " SURPRISE BLIZZARD " The Irish Times called it.
Must close the book for now and go back to some study!!!0 -
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The talk of 1947 around here reminds me of certain talk of 1966 over the water in England, each world cup they talk themselves up, but eventually are let down
Hopefully we will fulfill our 1947 potential this year
I know this is the ramp thread, but you might want to lower those expectations a fair bit!
If we are lucky, somewhere could get a lot of snow. But 1947 was truely exceptional.0 -
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Problem123456 wrote: »Those charts are killing me
Don't take them seriously at all though. On the very next run you could see 0cm all over Ireland. Just thought it was funny with all the jealousy of England getting snow.0 -
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141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »Have a bit of a shower here at the mo. Theres a bit of sleet mixed in. Just a bit
Shenanigans. Seagulls and a rainbow don't count as sleet.0 -
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pistolpetes11 wrote: »Pretty much as you were out to 48 hrs
Yup, no change. I'm giving up on Tues/Wed at this stage. Even if it does snow, it'll likely be the wet non-sticking type. No thanks, I'd prefer a hard frost over that mess, get the ground temps down for the main event later on
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