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

Mr Bumble

Still hammering down in Delgany and apart from a half hour pause around 7pm it's been dumping for 26 hours straight and no sign of let-up. This is ridiculous.

westcork blue

Still snowing in Ardmore. All the footprints made earlier are now filled inside I would guess another 3/4 cm has fallen since 2000.

gordatilla

Now that we are coming to the end of this snow, I just want to say thanks to the weather buffs for forewarning us so I was prepared and everyone else for keeping me sane over the run up and the duration of the best snow ever- friends and family didnt believe me when I said what was likely to happen😀 looking forward to the next event

statto25

Mickeroo wrote: »

Decent covering in Castlebar tonight, more than there's been all week.

It's mad. Best bit of snow all week.

Casualsingby

Update
03 March 2018 01:28

Today
Very cold and icy overnight. There'll be further snow at times, heaviest over eastern and southern areas. Towards dawn, the snow will turn more to rain and sleet along the south and southeast coast. Some dry periods overnight too - best over northern and northwestern areas. Lowest temperatures zero to -3 C., coldest inland. Fresh to strong east to northeasterly winds, with a risk of some coastal flooding along parts of the east and south coasts.




Tomorrow

Some further snow on Saturday morning, especially over the northern half of the country. But a band of rain and sleet over south Munster and along the east coast, will edge further northwards through the day, falling more as rain as it goes, but some sleet and snow will continue to affect Ulster in the afternoon. Some persistent rain in places, especially in southern and eastern coastal areas and this will aid the onset of a thaw, but some spot flooding is also possible. Top temperatures 1 to 3 C., over Ulster, but 4 to 7 C., elsewhere, best along the south coast.

Casualsingby

At present Connacht especially Northern areas, seeing the most snow falling. Very little in East. Unless netweather radar has gone to crap again lol.

_Dara_

Convinced my beau to join me outside at midnight. So peaceful and there was a virginal layer of snow. Allowed him to throw a few snowballs at me by way of thanks. :P

Anyway, here’s a collage of photos from that adventure. The snow by the canal was quite compacted for some reason so we didn't sink into it. We did see a rat though! :eek:

MJohnston

Get all your photos of the snow in tonight folks, I very much suspect this will be the peak (pun intended) of the heights, tomorrow should bring quite a reduction in places.

_Dara_

MJohnston wrote: »

Get all your photos of the snow in tonight folks, I very much suspect this will be the peak (pun intended) of the heights, tomorrow should bring quite a reduction in places.

Exactly why I dragged muh man outside. He hadn't been outside in it AT ALL. Literally had not left the house since getting home after working a half day on Tuesday. In fairness, he was sick from Tuesday until yesterday.

But I just knew he'd enjoy it once he was out there.

spookwoman

Still some small flakes of snow floating around in waterford

novemberbravo

Think that's it for Dublin 18. Just cold and quiet. Place covered and can't imagine local services being up and running first thing tomorrow. At this point I'm kinda glad its over!

joey1111

MJohnston wrote: »

Get all your photos of the snow in tonight folks, I very much suspect this will be the peak (pun intended) of the heights, tomorrow should bring quite a reduction in places.

_Dara_ wrote: »

Exactly why I dragged muh man outside. He hadn't been outside in it AT ALL. Literally had not left the house since getting home after working a half day on Tuesday. In fairness, he was sick from Tuesday until yesterday.

But I just knew he'd enjoy it once he was out there.

Did your beau think this is the last of the virginal layer of snow as he rolled it and caressed it gently with his hard hands and throwing it lovingly at his woman as she smiled longingly at huh man

snowgal

it's so strange to see the forum 'quiet' here tonight. Been following here, well for years and also obviously last 10 days! Been a great week here and happy out im the biggest snow fan! I'm actually exhausted from the whole build up and event! In a great way though....
I'm looking forward to the morning for one more go at it before it ends enjoy the morning everyone, and ps take pics

hawkwing

Looks like the show is almost over finally--time for Kathryn Thomas to sing. Hopefully it's not another 8 or 36 years to wait for the likes again--but nobody knows Some people probably didn't even go outside to take it all in but they are far removed from nature and more into reality tv etc. Hopefully we get a scorching summer now and skip spring:)

fleet_admiral

Finally stopped after 30+ hours non stop

yerwanthere123

Looks like that's it for Killarney now

spookwoman

Looks like one of those concept cars

Sam Quentin

snowgal wrote: »

it's so strange to see the forum 'quiet' here tonight. Been following here, well for years and also obviously last 10 days! Been a great week here and happy out im the biggest snow fan! I'm actually exhausted from the whole build up and event! In a great way though....
I'm looking forward to the morning for one more go at it before it ends enjoy the morning everyone, and ps take pics

That's cause we'r all broken hearted
You know when it's over and after a while of texting and stalking it suddenly dawns on you...... And you ride out to the desert and you shed a tear as you take the toys out of your basket and you throw them away.... And cycle back to the real World with tears in your eyes.....

ThaitaniumM

Time to open a summer thread. Next stop a scorching summer 2018. I predict a heatwave this summer.

Rougies

The quietness of the thread is understandable. It was a wild ride. The refractory period varies among individuals.

tallayabba

Just a quick question very impressed by the people in the know here been reading for the last few days and I doubted it but the predictions came true.

Living in Dublin 24 snowed in and no shops open yet again this coming day.
How long until we get some serious melting as this is not fun or funny anymore.

Thanks.

fritzelly

The Event is coming to an end
Been following this thread/s since almost the beginning - wanna give a big shout out to those weather guys who predicted the weather better even than ME - thank you for all your insightful knowledge

To all those guys/gals that have shared photos and videos over the past few days - well it has made this little weather anomaly all that more special, that could never have happened before smartphones and has made it all the more special to see how the rest of the country is. Some amazing photo's it has to be said!

So thank you for an amazing few days where I thought I could catch up on missed TV and ended up frantically following this weather thread and taking 3 hours to watch one single episode

hatrickpatrick

snowgal wrote: »

it's so strange to see the forum 'quiet' here tonight. Been following here, well for years and also obviously last 10 days! Been a great week here and happy out im the biggest snow fan! I'm actually exhausted from the whole build up and event! In a great way though....
I'm looking forward to the morning for one more go at it before it ends enjoy the morning everyone, and ps take pics

It's the nice, contented sort of afterglow though. Sort of like when you have an absolutely epic ride and you lie there next to eachother not saying anything, with big filthy grins on your faces

Here's to an epic summer before we welcome the Beast From the East back into our beautiful country just in time for "deh Christmas"

hatrickpatrick

Rougies wrote: »

The quietness of the thread is understandable. It was a wild ride. The refractory period varies among individuals.

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

It's the nice, contented sort of afterglow though. Sort of like when you have an absolutely epic ride and you lie there next to eachother not saying anything, with big filthy grins on your faces

Here's to an epic summer before we welcome the Beast From the East back into our beautiful country just in time for "deh Christmas"

God dammit, why'd you have to beat me to it

netbeatz

There has been so much snow love and snow hate over the past few days. But after the event here's my take...

To me It is like going on holidays to Disney...it brings families together to spend time with each other, it allows every member a chance to be a kid again, and most of all it gives us a chance to make special memories...ones that will stay with us forever.

Thank God for Snow Days

marno21

Dublin Airport is back in action. 2 Ethiopian transit flights have landed, 5 Shamrocks inbound in the next hour or two

gozunda

Checked out side - more snow with earlier tracks again obliterated. Local road only accessible with 4wd or tractor.

Did some shovelling around yard etc for access ystrday and again all covered. All livestock housed until conditions improve significantly...

gozunda

Shannon Airport reopening this morning- first flight from the US expected shortly

Love this ...

https://twitter.com/burrenman/status/969578194406903808?s=20

_Dara_

Went out for a walk there as the snow has stopped falling and I wanted one last walk.

Couldn’t resist. SUCH a child. Very invigorating though!

DOCARCH

Bye Emma....see ya.

36cm of snow (on the level) here in Dublin 16 this morning. There was 38cm at 11pm last nigh and more fell after that. Compaction and melting underway I suspect....

May have to start a thaw thread. :pac: