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Risk Of Heavy Snow Showers As It Turns Extremely Cold Sunday Night/Monday
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redsteveireland wrote: »Reports from Dublin airport this morning said it took 20-30 mins to clear snow, this has had a knock on effect.
Gone to 3 hours now
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Pigwidgeon wrote: »Really coming down in Greystones again now. Starting to stick too, all the roofs are white. By the sounds of the windows there some hail in there too!
What time it start at? It doesn't seem to be stopping
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not enough snow at all to close the airport or divert, at present anyway.
But there may be delays. And not because of snow on the runway.
But because they're built to be safe, planes are highly sensitive to temperatures like this. They need to be turned on and "warmed up" as you would your car on a frosty morning.
For instance if it were 10c outside a plane might be turned on at 6pm, but now needs to be turned on at 4pm, to allow it to adjust and to get rid of false warning lights etc due to the cold.
This will take more time for planes to depart, causing delays, and with maintanance staff focussed here, as well as runway backup, this will also affect arrivals too.
Hence why airports get a bollo**ing in the media for having delays for little snow on the runway. Its not 100percent to do with that at all. There's the stuff such as this going on behind the scenes too, calling in your staff on days off/short notice etc.
Anyway, keeping on topic. I would love a good blanket of the stuff tonight
unlikely, but sure :P
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sparrowcar wrote: »I'm sorry but I have to call you out on this....what a load of horsesh!t.
Haha i know it sounds farfetched, but it can happen. The equipment lying idle in an aircraft in 0c for a certain number of hours can mean misreadings. They're not immune to weather either. I'm only talking initially for the first hour or two they're on. A fault light might be on and the lads would have to check if there was a fault, if there's not, leave the plane a while to heat and see does the equipment correct itself.
As I said its the same with all the background goings on at the Airport in cold weather. Its not the actual flying or snow on the runway but the pre-flight checks being slowed down by the cold:
"We have issues keeping equipment running," said Chris Barbre, manager of ramp and operations for Southwest Airlines at Mitchell International. "It's not just the aircraft. It's the belt loaders and the tugs and the pushback trucks and all our ground support equipment that we have to address."
Full article here: http://www.jsonline.com/business/cold-weather-requires-all-hands-on-deck-at-airports-e18e3kv-187983221.html
also here about how many checks need to be done: http://www.businessaircraftcenter.com/articles/preparing-plane-aircraft-flying-cold-weather-winter-art0111.htm
thats why the media hypes up an airport delay or closure and people get angry. But in fact theres loads going on behind the scenes. Its not just as simple as snow on the runway.0 -
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Starting to do a quick wash here again in Tallght/Firhouse
temp is dropping - now down to 0C and DP is up to -7C.
Oooohhhh!
Proper big flakes here now! Blizzardy winds, and a nice big fat grey cloud just full of it! (ppn that is
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Edit - it has stopped now.......bugger.0 -
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Wine Goddess wrote: »Starting to do a quick wash here again in Tallght/Firhouse
temp is dropping - now down to 0C and DP is up to -7C.
Oooohhhh!
Proper big flakes here now! Blizzardy winds, and a nice big fat grey cloud just full of it! (ppn that is)
I'm in Knocklyon and its just after stopping, another big one moving in though. 0 -
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Haha i know it sounds farfetched, but it can happen. The equipment lying idle in an aircraft in 0c for a certain number of hours can mean misreadings. They're not immune to weather either. I'm only talking initially for the first hour or two they're on. A fault light might be on and the lads would have to check if there was a fault, if there's not, leave the plane a while to heat and see does the equipment correct itself.
As I said its the same with all the background goings on at the Airport in cold weather. Its not the actual flying or snow on the runway but the pre-flight checks being slowed down by the cold:
"We have issues keeping equipment running," said Chris Barbre, manager of ramp and operations for Southwest Airlines at Mitchell International. "It's not just the aircraft. It's the belt loaders and the tugs and the pushback trucks and all our ground support equipment that we have to address."
Full article here: http://www.jsonline.com/business/cold-weather-requires-all-hands-on-deck-at-airports-e18e3kv-187983221.html
also here about how many checks need to be done: http://www.businessaircraftcenter.com/articles/preparing-plane-aircraft-flying-cold-weather-winter-art0111.htm
thats why the media hypes up an airport delay or closure and people get angry. But in fact theres loads going on behind the scenes. Its not just as simple as snow on the runway.
This would be the case if you were dealing with sub zero temps over a long night period with the aircraft on the ground , not the cool temps we are enjoying! There is no difficulty with equipment at Dublin airport .0
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