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

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    #1322
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users Posts: 1,504 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    GFS 6Z is a stage 4 .
    Starts snowing Tuesday morning and doesn't stop in some eastern parts till Saturday..
    With just about everyone getting in on the fun at some point


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    #1323
    Drumpot
    Registered Users Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Early in the week “There will be no snow, this will be just like Ophelia!”. Now that it’s looking very like to come to pass “This is going to be awful, why are there people looking foreword to this and so happy?!”.

    Seriously, this thread is extremely informative and can be fun. Nobody can do anything about the weather but it’s akin to a group of people making the most out of something that’s going to happen whether we like it or not and some killjoys come to the forum to bring everybody down with nothing constructive that hasn’t already been discussed.

    . “Like you know people might die and the country will be badly effected?!” As if the more posters are looking forward to it the worse the weather will get! Worse still, it’s as if they think people don’t know anything about how this weather event might effect the country. Many of us have been reading or talking about this for days, so blow ins coming in with righteous waffle are not really informing or helping in any way.

    I’ve warned every person I know since last week and been laughed at and slagged. That’s just the way it is and I get on with it but I take this very seriously. But I don’t need random posters coming on here to lecture me on what might happen when we have much more informed , grounded posters doing a perfectly good job for years. This attitude insinuates that people looking forward to the snow don’t care about the damage that may be caused when the opposite is the case. People take their weather very seriously here.


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    #1324
    JimPa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭JimPa


    wakka12 wrote: »
    We experience the 'hardship ' too you know , it'll be hard for me to get to work , won't be able to drive anywhere.

    I'm not sure if you're serious or not here so I'll refrain.


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    #1325
    dacogawa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,840 ✭✭✭dacogawa


    Something to keep in mind (if there is a thaw on Saturday, I don't trust the GFS) is that there will be a very high Spring tide on Saturday, we really don't want a thaw with that. Come on Snow, hang around! :D

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    #1326
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    patsy sally wrote: »
    Lovely spring morning here in Wexford just back from a walk, going to enjoy the nice day that's in it and take the rest of the week as it comes

    Same in Dublin. I'm just sorry I didn't bitumen paint my roof this weekend. Last time I'll take advice from this forum:D


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    #1327
    OldRio
    Registered Users Posts: 6,088 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Cold and dry for the North West? If so I'll take that.


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    #1328
    quartz1
    Registered Users Posts: 385 ✭✭quartz1


    I have been warning my family for days and they are of the belief that I have lost the plot and am a drama queen.

    I hope it snows guys or I am never going to live this down.


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    #1329
    TheAnalyst_
    Registered Users Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭TheAnalyst_


    Already hit where I am. Bit of a non event as its just really cold. Zero ice or snow.


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    #1330
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,991 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Alessandro Most Cog wrote: »
    Same in Dublin. I'm just sorry I didn't bitumen paint my roof this weekend. Last time I'll take advice from this forum:D

    You were told it would be dry!


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    #1331
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,991 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    TheAnalyst_ wrote: »
    Already hit where I am. Bit of a non event as its just really cold. Zero ice or snow.

    :confused:

    Do you live 48/72 hours in the future?


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    #1332
    Discodog
    Registered Users Posts: 15,899 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    I use yr.no (Hirlam) as my everyday forecast. Here in Galway they are showing 0.7 mm for Wednesday & 1.0 mm for Thursday, of snow. Sunday's forecast is for 2.7 mm of rain.


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    #1333
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    You were told it would be dry!

    dry....But too cold. It was colder in my fridge :D

    Anyways I've 4 days off over Paddys weekend. Probably better suited to it once MT and Joanna can get the weather right. !!


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    #1334
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,991 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    TheAnalyst_ wrote: »
    Already hit where I am. Bit of a non event as its just really cold. Zero ice or snow.

    Just to manage expectations....

    (Real) cold starts to arrive tomorrow, then, depending where you are in the country, snow showers start to arrive (for the east coast at least) on Tuesday.


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    #1335
    smokingman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,749 ✭✭✭smokingman


    Kids are mad excited but screw that, I'm getting some old fertiliser bags at the ready for myself!

    ....now to pick a hill..
    :D


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    #1336
    TheAnalyst_
    Registered Users Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭TheAnalyst_


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    :confused:

    Do you live 48/72 hours in the future?

    No, continental Europe.


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    #1337
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,991 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Alessandro Most Cog wrote: »
    dry....But too cold. It was colder in my fridge :D

    Generally external painting should not be done when temperature is below (for forecast to be below) 5c.


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    #1338
    KingBobby
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭KingBobby


    quartz1 wrote: »
    I have been warning my family for days and they are of the belief that I have lost the plot and am a drama queen.

    I hope it snows guys or I am never going to live this down.

    I need it to snow to justify to the other half the €200 i've just spent on animal feed alone!


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    #1339
    carltonleon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭carltonleon


    joes girls wrote: »
    My stages of weather excitement
    1) yeah yeah, heard it all before it's not going to happen.

    2) This is starting to look good, but I'm not saying anything to anyone yet.

    3) Full on excitement, tells anyone that will listen to me with the overwhelming response that " your mad we are not going to get snow"

    4) Giddy excitement, have the kids full on waiting for the snow to come( one of which is waiting to make his first snowman) went shopping to stock up, all set for 3/4/5 days of not leaving the house.

    5) Doubt, maybe we are not going to get as much snow as I first thought, we are too near the sea. ( we live on the south east coast) maybe I should not talk about Snow today!

    You forgot stage 6 ..... the smug ‘I told you so’ when the doubters of snowmageddon tell you that you were right all along 😂


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    #1340
    vistafinder
    Registered Users Posts: 619 ✭✭✭vistafinder


    kenmc wrote: »
    Maybe it's just me but it seems like there's less activity on this thread since Friday. Perhaps everyone is out stockpiling, or have died of anticipation

    Id say there is a bit of this happening too
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    #1341
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,991 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    TheAnalyst_ wrote: »
    No, continental Europe.

    Ahhh....

    No snow for you then! :p

    Most of northern Europe will only have cold....no snow at all!

    For the next couple of days, the UK and Ireland will have snow thanks to the North Sea and Irish Sea/


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    #1342
    km79
    Registered Users Posts: 48,247 ✭✭✭✭km79


    TheAnalyst_ wrote: »
    No, continental Europe.

    Where and what temp is it?
    Be good to get reports in advance of it reachjng us ?


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    #1343
    dacogawa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,840 ✭✭✭dacogawa


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Ahhh....

    No snow for you then! :p

    Most of northern Europe will only have cold....no snow at all!

    For the next couple of days, the UK and Ireland will have snow thanks to the North Sea and Irish Sea/

    Are you not supposed to be the person who stops trolling on here? :rolleyes: :D


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    #1344
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,991 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    dacogawa wrote: »
    Are you not supposed to be the person who stops trolling on here? :rolleyes: :D

    Yip....

    But that's (scientific) fact!


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    #1345
    LEIN
    Registered Users Posts: 9,936 ✭✭✭LEIN


    joes girls wrote: »
    My stages of weather excitement
    1) yeah yeah, heard it all before it's not going to happen.

    2) This is starting to look good, but I'm not saying anything to anyone yet.

    3) Full on excitement, tells anyone that will listen to me with the overwhelming response that " your mad we are not going to get snow"

    4) Giddy excitement, have the kids full on waiting for the snow to come( one of which is waiting to make his first snowman) went shopping to stock up, all set for 3/4/5 days of not leaving the house.

    5) Doubt, maybe we are not going to get as much snow as I first thought, we are too near the sea. ( we live on the south east coast) maybe I should not talk about Snow today!

    Perfectly summed up.

    My wife and kids will not listen to me anymore....


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    #1346
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    km79 wrote: »
    Where and what temp is it?
    Be good to get reports in advance of it reachjng us ?

    My in-laws have -7 at the moment with forecasts to hit -20 as the week progresses.


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    #1347
    adam240610
    Registered Users Posts: 820 ✭✭✭adam240610


    Not looking forwards to the commute home on bus to Wicklow from UCD on Tuesday evening.


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    #1348
    davidsr20
    Registered Users Posts: 769 ✭✭✭davidsr20


    What time is the main RTÉ weather in today I generally don’t watch it Sundays.


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    #1349
    YanSno
    Registered Users Posts: 358 ✭✭YanSno


    Cold air making progress across Europe


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    #1350
    Snowbiee21
    Registered Users Posts: 788 ✭✭✭Snowbiee21


    davidsr20 wrote: »
    What time is the main RTÉ weather in today I generally don’t watch it Sundays.

    Usually the 6 o’clock or the nine


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    #1351
    Calibos
    Registered Users Posts: 7,807 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Alessandro Most Cog wrote: »
    Same in Dublin. I'm just sorry I didn't bitumen paint my roof this weekend. Last time I'll take advice from this forum:D

    Shoulda been more specific then and told us it was bitumen 'painting' you were doing. That said, for all I know Bitumen cant be painted below 7 degrees either?

    :D


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