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

q85dw7osi4lebg

Thawing away here in East Meath. Less here now than at 3am. Becoming worryingly damp ! Melting off cars etc.

sryanbruen

https://twitter.com/decornerforward/status/969531579105185792

Donegal Storm

pad199207 wrote: »

Maynooth

Thats my main road into town, thank f*** I stocked up on food on Tuesday!

lolo62

DellyBelly wrote: »

Inchicore is a whiteout. People are walking on the road as the snow is too deep on the footpaths

Is anything open Do you know? I'm in the ranch and out of milk and everything else except bread 😣

Bananaleaf

For those of us in the worst-hit areas - what are the chances of this having cleared up by Monday. Following the link https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-5.81,48.70,3000/loc=-7.112,49.318 and I don't know if I'm looking at it right, but it seems that there's so much more of Emma to come???

Jollyman

Ardmore Waterford

Sephiroth_dude

Ballincollig Cork

Irish_rat

irelandspurs wrote: »

Anyone still getting heavy snow?

Fair bit coming down now in Limerick

Shelga

I'm in D5 also, definitely got a fair dumping of extra snow last night. Drifts of about 18 inches in the back garden. Mad how it seems to vary so much from one postcode to the next, even from one neighbourhood to the next!

billymitchell

Bucketing down in Carpenterstown for the last hour, best snow of the last few days

ibarelycare

Very windy now, sideways snow! (Drimnagh, D12)

Cork Boy 53

revelman wrote: »

Where? Snow has been relentless here for over 3 hours.

Crookstown area between Bandon and Macroom. Actually some light patchy snowfall has started up again here. Has there been much snowfall in Ballinspittle /Garretstown area?

patneve2

light snow with the odd moderate burst. Not sticking to cleared surfaces. S dublin coast

thomasj

Heavy snowfall in Clonsilla now

Skedaddle

Panjandrums wrote: »

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You can get issues with transformers becoming covered in snow and overheating and tripping out.

Likewise, the Virgin Media issue that someone was reporting could be a similar thing - a cabinet insulated by snow with its air vents blocked would potentially do that.

We've a lot of very distributed telecommunications infrastructure these days. Instead of your lines going to a local telephone exchange in a building, your broadband services are provided from little street cabinets, both in the case of Eir (and all the providers using VDSL) and also Virgin Media (different cabinets)

The one thing with a big fault of 6000+ ESB connections is that it's probably an easy-to-get-to local transformer and can be remedied quickly. Local, smaller, faults in hard-to-reach places are much more difficult.

Sephiroth_dude

morgana wrote: »

And we had some fun !

I love it! snow cat

sryanbruen

We better get used to periods like this for the next years 'cause with solar minimum just around the corner, these kinds of periods are to be more frequent.

Achasanai

Coming down in heavy bursts in Rathfarnham (Terenure end). Fairly deep out there, some drifting. Was expecting it to die off, but it's getting worse.

Poochie05

The drifts are incredible. While the patio has a bare covering, here is the side gate
Wexford Town

windyout

DOCARCH wrote: »

Was out for a stroll/romp in the snow in Dublin 16. Nothing can get in or out of our estate with snow drifts...saw somebody try and fail after a lot of digging. Nothing (as in traffic) on Grange Road (Rathfarnham)....pretty much impassable.

Down the road from you at rathfarnham bridge.... he won't be opening any time soon....

Achasanai

sryanbruen wrote: »

We better get used to periods like this for the next years 'cause with solar minimum just around the corner, these kinds of periods are to be more frequent.

Can you explain this a bit more? I thought there was a minimum and maximum to a general period, but do you mean that there will be a more extensive minimum period?

weisses

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

And that right there is exactly why the red warning was justified.:cool:

Yes ... for that area (county)

3 cm of snow here in Kerry ...No blizzard

That is the reason the red warning wasn't justified

Some people in decisions making and professional weather forecasting got a bit ahead of themselves i guess

Stunning pics nonetheless

mickmackey1

Last night I was criticising Met Eireann, but I was wrong. We got snow and drifts and all sorts (though not much wind...)

So, Met Eireann, I APOLOGISE :D

foxyladyxx

Very strong winds and heavy snowfall in Sandymount . .

Gonzo

still snowing here but it's thawing more than sticking.

A good way to test it is to wipe snow off a surface. Snow melts on impact on the surface I cleared. Very wet snow at this stage and the intensity just isn't there.

RobertKK

Snow is quiet heavy here north east of Kilkenny as the drifts continue to grow.

stooge

Achasanai wrote: »

Can you explain this a bit more? I thought there was a minimum and maximum to a general period, but do you mean that there will be a more extensive minimum period?

low point expected for 2019-2020 as far as I know

padd b1975

Lucan.

SortingYouOut

Nice fall in D4 now and sticking

Artane2002

Nice dinner plates falling in Dublin 5. I'm not sure how but I have almost 50cm in the garden here I'm not trolling/lying!