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Severe Winter Weather, Snow/Ice - Sun 25th Feb (Onwards) READ MOD NOTE POST #1

Kermit.de.frog · 2018-02-23 20:02:24

MOD NOTE This is a busy thread and as a result the Mod Team will be taking a zero Tolerance approach to trolling, flaming and personal abuse. Don’t say you weren’t warned!! And please don’t feed - report & let the Mod team deal with Troublesome Posters/Trolls…

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#6992 28-02-2018 8:34am
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Woke up for school in cork city and oh my god its beautiful! -3 degrees and snow covering everything. Have rk go to school though so can't take it in correctly

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#6993 28-02-2018 8:34am
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We have a streamer train for cork city at the mo. lovely covering already and more 20 mins away. 4 cm so far at guess

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#6994 28-02-2018 8:35am
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D2, dublin. Posted on the photos page:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=106285021&postcount=14

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#6995 28-02-2018 8:35am
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JCX BXC wrote: »

No snow this morning in West Clare, however a bit of the Shannon river has pepped up the showers heading here, bring it!

-3.1c here and a very hard frost.

Looking at the radar it's on the way in the next hour.

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#6996 28-02-2018 8:35am
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silverharp wrote: »

its not exactly snowmageddon , looks like <1cm in Ballsbridge area in dublin , looks nice htough

Absolute BS. I walked Sandymount to Ballsbridge. The minimum I seen was 5cm. Maybe don’t use your balcony as your area of measurement

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#6997 28-02-2018 8:36am
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One thing for people travelling to bear in mind is that the Red Warning issued by Met Eireann is not for snow that has fallen....it's for snow that is expected to fall today.

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#6998 28-02-2018 8:37am
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Rebelbrowser wrote: »

We have a streamer train for cork city at the mo. lovely covering already and more 20 mins away. 4 cm so far at guess

Enjoy it. All we can hope for here is a passing shower crumb today i'd say. If I don't get something substantial tomorroow by which i mean at least 2-5 cm I am moving to Norway!

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#6999 28-02-2018 8:37am
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Amazing to see the snow in the East Coast as for us in the North West the Beast from the East has been very disappointing so far , I was at least looking forward to some ice days with white fields but we are not even getting frost with this dry air. Its -3, I may add that the exceptional low temperatures showing on the models last week aren't coming to fruition.

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#7000 28-02-2018 8:37am
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For anyone stuck in isle of man shadow due to direction of wind...I found this wind direction map very useful for figuring out when winds would turn more easlerly and get us out of that shadow. I'm north of Kilcock.
https://www.met.ie/forecasts/short-range.asp

That combined with Netweathers radar for streamers.
https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar

Looks like winds turn properly easterly again around 10am.

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#7001 28-02-2018 8:37am
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DOCARCH wrote: »

One thing for people travelling to bear in mind is that the Red Warning issued by Met Eireann is not for snow that has fallen....it's for snow that is expected to fall today.

*15cm in the next 24 hrs is s(no) joke!

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#7002 28-02-2018 8:40am
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https://twitter.com/leftybearcub/status/968750242463145984

My snow this morning.

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#7003 28-02-2018 8:41am
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7:40. Virginia Cavan currently taking a pasting at the moment. Didnt get too much overnight. Local secondary school closed.

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#7004 28-02-2018 8:44am
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Showers pepping up again now over the Irish Sea, so expect more snow showers in Dublin in the next hour or so (...and showers to keep going).

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#7005 28-02-2018 8:45am
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rodge123 wrote: »

For anyone stuck in isle of man shadow due to direction of wind...I found this wind direction map very useful for figuring out when winds would turn more easlerly and get us out of that shadow. I'm north of Kilcock.
https://www.met.ie/forecasts/short-range.asp

That combined with Netweathers radar for streamers.
https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar

Looks like winds turn properly easterly again around 10am.

Thank God. The start of last night I was missing out on showers by only about 10-20km and I was so annoyed I, could literally see the massive rain clouds. Woke up this morning and we have some snow, havnt measured it but its fairly scattered due to the wind. Maybe a cm or 2. This is south Cavan btw about 5km from the Longford border. Buses arnt running to schools do they are shut

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#7006 28-02-2018 8:45am
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Deedsie wrote: »

Red warning is for a future event. Something that may happen after now. Do you get that part?

The red alert is active since 5am this morning so no, it's not just for things that may happen after now. It's an active event for nearly 3 hours. Do you get that part?

Its simply not justified and is a case of over the top forecasting.

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#7007 28-02-2018 8:46am
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can someone please share a link to a decent website with accurate radar precipitation forecasts? just had a decent flurry in SE Meath

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#7008 28-02-2018 8:48am
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Reati wrote: »

The red alert is active since 5am this morning so no, it's not just for things that may happen after now.

The red alert is for what is to happen (not what has already happened).

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#7009 28-02-2018 8:48am
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Brother and sister school shut and mother and fathers work cancelled , all sleeping while I get ready for work I just wanna play in the snow !!

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#7010 28-02-2018 8:48am
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Nothing in Wicklow Town. Have always said it's the last place on Earth to get snow and here we are again. Can't believe we dodged it again even Bray got snow? Schools closed anyway so need be thankful for that at least.

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#7011 28-02-2018 8:48am
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abrushka wrote: »

can someone please share a link to a decent website with accurate radar precipitation forecasts? just had a decent flurry in SE Meath

I quite like this one as opposed to ME, you can see activity further afield and how it affects us later

Likely light snow showers until 10/11am and they start pepping up again

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#7012 28-02-2018 8:48am
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Reati wrote: »

Its simply not justified and is a case of over the top forecasting.

Beg to differ....

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#7013 28-02-2018 8:48am
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Covered here in Monasterevin. Road is very quiet, and no way i'm making my way to Dublin today.

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#7014 28-02-2018 8:49am
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We had thunder lightning and snow last night in east cork. Heavy snow now

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#7015 28-02-2018 8:49am
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Green Hills D12

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#7016 28-02-2018 8:49am
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Reati wrote: »

The red alert is active since 5am this morning so no, it's not just for things that may happen after now. It's an active event for nearly 3 hours. Do you get that part?

Its simply not justified and is a case of over the top forecasting.

How much where you are? Dublin 12 here and fair whack. Public transport very restricted.

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#7017 28-02-2018 8:49am
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Out of nowhere another blizzard here in Maynooth, already lovely deep snow, kerb height.

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#7018 28-02-2018 8:49am
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Jesus people get very ratty over a weather warning lol

Enjoy the snow and chillax

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#7019 28-02-2018 8:49am
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Reati wrote: »

The red alert is active since 5am this morning so no, it's not just for things that may happen after now. It's an active event for nearly 3 hours. Do you get that part?

Its simply not justified and is a case of over the top forecasting.

MOD Note

You have had your say ( Which is wrong by the way ) so leave it at that and let the thread move on , by all means use the weather warning thread to air your grievance

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#7020 28-02-2018 8:50am
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Woke up this morn, looked out and... and it's not that bad really .(Rathnew/Rathdrum) However as I have the little ones with me I don't feel like risking anything just to show I can drive in it. Nope, I want to be safe and keep them safe too. and we haven't even talked about the nutters who think they can drive.

so yea staying home where its safe.

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#7021 28-02-2018 8:50am
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Reati wrote: »

The red alert is active since 5am this morning so no, it's not just for things that may happen after now. It's an active event for nearly 3 hours. Do you get that part?

Its simply not justified and is a case of over the top forecasting.

Unjustified? If red means that it is worse than what we have in South Cork where there is an orange warning then it must be pretty bad up there. From Kinsale along to Bandan we have had very significant snow with trucks stuck and cars being pushed. Check out Kinsale Message Board on FB.

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