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

Panjandrums

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thebull85

Will shops in town be open in town tomorrow?

jooksavage

Just got up to feed the baba. Doesn't look like much snow fallen in Thurles yet. Bloody cold though. Hopefully we can avoid altogether the kind of falls folks in Kildare are experiencing.

NMB

otherfrog wrote: »

https://twitter.com/NiallwMorris/status/969387617925156864

He caught the power outage - bright electrical arc immediately before the cut, I suspect that's what people saw when they mentioned lightning.

So cool !! And that’s what it was - but it’s rubbish because now I’ve no lecky ...

david75

Lissavane wrote: »

I should never have left Dublin to live in the country. It sounds so exciting there!

I've nothing to look at but fecking stars. In the sky. Oh well...

I’d swap you for it.

dublinman1990

That is quite dramatic. It could happen again through the night. Would it be safe to turn off lights with these electrical arcs of lightening.

AAAAAAAAA

Gremlin wrote: »

Seeing lightning flashes in North Dublin, no thunder tho.

HV electrical arcing

noodler

super_furry wrote: »

Yeah seems the coastal areas in Dublin are missing out slightly. In Shankill and now it’s been very slow and steady today and continues to be so. The snow that’s falling is pretty wet and you get the feeling that it could disappear quickly when the sun comes out.

Raheny and Clontarf aren't missing out on anything.

Snow is about 20cm thick in places.

Went out there for five minutes and I couldn't hack it even in full gear.

fritzelly

thebull85 wrote: »

Will shops in town be open in town tomorrow?

Yes they will...ermm which town?

prinzeugen

otherfrog wrote: »

https://twitter.com/NiallwMorris/status/969387617925156864

He caught the power outage - bright electrical arc immediately before the cut, I suspect that's what people saw when they mentioned lightning.

They should have said "in Dublin" not "over Dublin". Gives the impression the entire city went dead when it did not.

jooksavage

thebull85 wrote: »

Will shops in town be open in town tomorrow?

Doubt it in Munster and Leinster. Red warning in place. Anyone goes driving in that needs a talking to. Not sure about the rest of the country.

_Dara_

Zero degrees currently and apparently rising!

MJohnston

Phone struggled to adjust the focus correctly at the beginning here, and of course you never really see the full extent of snowfall on a video, but it's just insane outside in Cabra at the minute (take a look at the power lines to see how strong the winds are)

AAAAAAAAA

Panjandrums wrote: »

Power cut to 6900 customers in Wicklow Town and surrounds, I'm no expert but one fault to take that many people offline must be a serious one.

Exact same thing happened during storm Ophelia, too. Whatever it is, something isn't right with the grid connection out there.

noodler

prinzeugen wrote: »

They should have said "in Dublin" not "over Dublin". Gives the impression the entire city went dead when it did not.

No. It doesn't.

Mullaghteelin

Perhaps no more than a couple of inches or 5cm in balbriggan, with drifts against walls of up to a foot max.

pad199207

Visibility getting slowly worse here in Naas.

sryanbruen

I've still not had a power cut.

ED E

https://twitter.com/NiallwMorris/status/969387617925156864

nimrod86

Do I see potential rain heading for Rosslare on the netweather radar? Is that still accurate, think someone said earlier it was being a bit funny!

NMB

prinzeugen wrote: »

I am up the road and its on. These are local things not postal code things. Just because you have lost power in Dublin 6, it does not mean the whole area is dead.

So any chance of a lecky lend “neighbor” ??

fred funk }{

AAAAAAAAA wrote: »

Exact same thing happened during storm Ophelia, too. Whatever it is, something isn't right with the grid connection out there.

Could be a weak point at a critical juncture.

pistolpetes11

pad199207 wrote: »

Visibility getting slowly worse here in Naas.

Doesn't seem to be as bad here in Newbridge , getting the snow grains for the last few hours ,

Id check the radar but it says were not getting anything

prinzeugen

noodler wrote: »

No. It doesn't.

Yes it does. You will have idiots tweeting etc now about a citywide blackout that did not happen.

nacho libre

I hope ye all are reduced to candle lights in affected areas- it will mean a better story to tell to future generations:D

75 year old Gabeeg reminiscing : i remember the falll of March 2018, when we were reduced to candelight by night with a whiskey in hand...
Come morning, with a massive hangover, i was shocked to discover i could not open the front door- i was snowed in for a week and had to survive on bread and Whiskey for seven days:o

sabat

Power back in d4

Pentecost

Pentecost wrote: »

Same in Kimmage, no issues. Still lashing down to use a technical term. A few inches of fine snow added since this evening. Not too dramatic but enough to keep me looking out at it anyway.

Might've jinxed it. Just had the first flicker of the flights.

Zurbaran

Power just back now in Sandymount

StringerBell

prinzeugen wrote: »

Yes it does. You will have idiots tweeting etc now about a citywide blackout that did not happen.

Idiots tweet idiotic things all the time.

beauf

Why would there be so many power cuts in Dublin.