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

Silent Rain

Went from Laos to IFSC this morning to grab a laptop so I can work from home... Just sitting on a train leaving Dublin now... Glad to be on it, I assume even the trains are going to have issues later if it gets much worse even before the main event hits...

sdanseo

Lashing graupel here now in Malahide. Heaviest and loudest it's been.

Vxlks

Ahead of the storm Emma, is Dublin going to be hit by that too?

Silent Rain

Vxlks wrote: »

Ahead of the storm Emma, is Dublin going to be hit by that too?

Yes. Not until tomorrow afternoon though.

A Dub in Glasgo

https://twitter.com/ChiqueBoum/status/968788921927831552

Musefan

There was a brief bit of sun there in Dublin 16 (well I'm almost Dublin 14). Starting to snow lightly again now, and sky looks dark. Went for a walk to Dundrum Shopping centre. The place is deserted, cars skidding all over the place coming up the incline to the carpark. Lots of shops closed, but Tesco is open (with quite a bit of bread!). Got caught in a flurry and blowing snow on the way home. The graupel blowing about would cut the face off you.

whippet

light hail on the louth coast for a minute .. might get to a total of 1cm soon !!! I feel sorry for the kids .. school closed due to snow and nothing more than dandruff on the ground !

Cantona's Collars

Sun's out here in Enniscorthy, snow and ice rapidly melting. Just North of the town are banks and banks of black clouds. Somebody is getting lots of snow out of them.

revelman

My amateur estimate (with a measuring tape!) is that there is approx 15cm accumulation of snow here in rural Kinsale. If there’s is more on the way, then this could be really significant. But we only have an orange warning here!

bennyl10

Silent Rain wrote: »

Yes. Not until tomorrow afternoon though.

So what's hitting overnight tonight then?
Continuation of the east one?

sicknotexi

Some Serie A sneachta starting to fall in Monasterevin just now.

Rossi IRL

Bucketing down in Laois, roads were bad enough this morning, can't imagine how bad they will be on the way home from work tonight.

Most of the journey is on single lane back roads where you can even see the ditch either side.

q85dw7osi4lebg

whippet wrote: »

light hail on the louth coast for a minute .. might get to a total of 1cm soon !!! I feel sorry for the kids .. school closed due to snow and nothing more than dandruff on the ground !

That's mad, Drogheda got a good few cm.

The Specialist

revelman wrote: »

My amateur estimate (with a measuring tape!) is that there is approx 15cm accumulation of snow here in rural Kinsale. If there’s is more on the way, then this could be really significant. But we only have an orange warning here!

Emergency group are meeting now, time for them to drop the poker face ****e of the last few days and bring more counties in to the red & orange warnings.

Silent Rain

fricatus wrote: »

Wow, that is one hell of a journey just to pick up a laptop!

Doh. What a difference an "i" makes..

The Mig

d'Oracle wrote: »

I'm a small pedantic man, but this is making my teeth itch.

There have been no blizzards in Ireland today.
There may be one later in the week.
Blizzards are severe snow with high winds, like a storm with gansaí loads of snow.

Sorry...

Stop being pedantic and enjoy the blizzards ya dry sh*te

sdanseo

sdanseo wrote: »

Lashing graupel here now in Malahide. Heaviest and loudest it's been.

Graupel got to the size of peas (batchelors, since someone asked yesterday for clarification) and turned to full on flakes. My own footprints from a short while ago are gone.

whippet

Rashad Icy Forefinger wrote: »

That's mad, Drogheda got a good few cm.

i'm only 5km from Drogheda on the coast !!

I was going to pop in to the town for a coffee shortly .. can't get any work done at home with the kids!!

Giblet

Where's all the bais in their t-shirts that were saying it would only be a dusting?

Gonzo

Rashad Icy Forefinger wrote: »

That's mad, Drogheda got a good few cm.

alot of Meath has gotten off very lightly due to the IOM Shadow.

Bargain_Hound

Another flash and rumble heard in Maynooth.

yeahimhere

Started to come down consistently in louth now, bit of wind too. I think we've gotten off fairly lightly so far considering we're in a red warning area. I'm working from home....but have to stop looking out the window!

beertons

Got a path clear for the van in Naas.

sdanseo

The Specialist wrote: »

Emergency group are meeting now, time for them to drop the poker face ****e of the last few days and bring more counties in to the red & orange warnings.

If they rely on HIRLAM forecast it will be red for all of Leinster, Munster and Cavan/Monaghan essentially until Friday night at least. Harmonie is their main one but we don't have public access to that.

Scotty #

People are very loose with the word 'Blizzard' in this thread!!

Dubh Geannain wrote: »

Near Dunshaughlin a few minutes ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG5QeBnko4U

This is NOT blizzard conditions or anything like it! You have several hundred meters of visibility for a start. It also doesn't seem that windy. Come back when you have 15 meters of visibility and have to disable the sound due to wind noise! :D

dsmythy

Have to get new tyres for NCT Monday. Looks like I'll have to chance Thursday in between death of the streamers and onset of frontal snow to make my move.

kadman

Midway between Mullingar and Tullamore and about 2 cms of snow is all.

And traffic moving very well along the back roads.

amadangomor

power pants wrote: »

Storm orphelia I could agree with

This no, why shouldn't families be walking around?

And meanwhile while they're in getting their "essential" frappacinos and smoothies 4 inches of snow falls trapping then in the car park, or worse on a country road somewhere, or they skid on the way home and end in a ditch because the driver has never driven in snow.

Gavlor

Something is brewing over hook head!

On the mobile so cant embed

patneve2

Flow now less favourable (dalkey) will see what the afternoon brings.