Severe Weather Snow / Ice Weds 28 FEB ( Onwards ) ** READ MOD NOTE POST#1**

DominoDub

The storm is tracking very slowly unlike our normal Atlantic ones.

Possible ideas in running my late night head before bed are:

Emma is having a great old battle with the east wind and the Jetstream.

The east wind is slowly grinding away at her outer bands ..holding her in position.

Thus why the main precipitation belts are slow in making it to the Irish Coast.

Will the East Wind or Emma win out ..or is the freak Jetstream the joker in the pack.

Looks like It will be a long game

sryanbruen

I just had lightning! :eek:

jay0109

D6W here. Been snowing since 6pm but different to the snow of the past few days. This stuff is wet but still building up nicely

d'Oracle

Lissavane wrote: »

It's not an accident. Professional forecasters were sceptical about this fiasco. Yes, it's cold. The government have sought to amplify the thing in order to manipulte public opinion. Met Eireann have capitulated.

Nope.

Spanish Eyes

So it didn't snow in your own back garden/village/town/whatever. Be happy with that, you won't have to deal with it and the aftermath.

I know some are disappointed so far, but it ain't over yet, just starting really.

The Red Alert could in no way be confined to every town and village in the path of the weather system could it?

Personally I think it was a good call. Got most people in safe and sound.

And tonight some places have been downgraded to Orange alert.

Forecasting is not infallible, but I think a good job was done all round.

Assetbacked

Holy ****! Power blown all around our apartment block and the others I can see. That’s a huge lot of apartments by 3Arena now without power. Alarms going off everywhere.

Ray269

Just lost power. Near bakers corner

NMB

Electricity just went out !!

snowstorm445

Lost power in Ringsend.

Franz Von Peppercorn

budgemook wrote: »

It was late but this is definitely not over hyped in Dublin 7 / Ashtown. Just went outside there, could barely get the porch door open and at the rate the snow is accumulating beside my car it will be covered by morning. Snow is pelting on side ways and showing no sign of slowing down. I'd love to go for a proper walk but I may go to bed! Setting the alarm for 6am as I don't want to miss too much of this.

The differences across Dublin are amazing. Coastal area here and not much happening.

SleetAndSnow

wow dublin looks to be taking a serious hammering, keep reports coming!

Anybody able to forecast anything for us down south? Debating going to bed, if I do and I wake up there the chance it will be raining and gone

laugh

Wow did the whole city go down?

Rala_

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

RAW data from multiple permutations on the GFS , ECM , its the mean ,

Another words outside of 2-3 days there pretty useless in normal weather ,

Type of complex systems were having now , 12 hours :pac::pac::pac:

Gonna understand I knew what that meant

Subutai

Lost power here in Pearse Street, only for a few seconds though.

Rougies

sryanbruen wrote: »

I just had lightning! :eek:

Assetbacked wrote: »

Holy ****! Power blown all around our apartment block and the others I can see. That’s a huge lot of apartments by 3Arena now without power. Alarms going off everywhere.

You're in that area sryan?

StringerBell

Not much happening here in Waterford either where I am, thinking we are gonna miss the worst of it which is both good and bad.

Assetbacked

This is insane. From whatsapp and here it appears most if not all of Dublin is now out of power.

Aspiring

Still power here in D4 luckily

ricero

Power gone in sallynoggin

sryanbruen

Rougies wrote: »

You're in that area sryan?

I'm in Dublin 13, Donaghmede/Baldoyle/Clongriffin general area.

No power cut.... yet for me.

Daniel2590

Still have power in my area, my friend lost power around Johnstown Rd. (D18)

wyndham

Ifsc all powered down. Talbot St area all down. Seems everywhere is gone

Sephiroth_dude

Flurries of snow here in ballincollig, cork, -2, no real wind yet anyway, hopefully it stays like that.

wazzer1

Gremlin wrote: »

Seeing lightning flashes in North Dublin, no thunder tho.

Power outage I think

P.lane78

Trump did this 😌

prinzeugen

NMB wrote: »

Harold’s cross road

Did you go as far as the Maxoil garage? Wonder if its open. Running low on smokes!

Trebor176

Power is still here in Clondalkin. Though, the lights flickered a few moments ago.

otherfrog

I wonder if these are lightning strikes people are seeing or whether they're the transformers in substations tripping / other mains shorts? They can cause huge bright arcs.

No strikes are showing on the lightning map I use, but it's by no means perfect.

random_banter

Grand Canal Dock ESB gone too. 3 signal is terrible here so can’t check the PowerCheck app.

Spanish Eyes

Flickering lights here. Hate that. Just boiled the kettle in case it's all over and I think I might just throw a shot of brandy into the coffee now. I'm worth it!

Chin chin.