Winter 2018/2019 - General Discussion

Pangea

First nice sunny cool day in a while here in Donegal, frost on top of the car already. 0.5c

nacho libre

Ian Fergusson(Uk Met office employee)
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@fergieweather

W COUNTRY A major Sudden Stratospheric Warming is underway: winds high aloft are reversing from W'rly to E'rly & the stratospheric polar vortex is splitting. For us, this - plus developments forecast in the tropics (MJO) - will increase risks of colder weather mid-late Jan & Feb.

Of course when he says "us", it does not mean Ireland, but if there was a prolonged cold outbreak in Britain it may increase our chances of it creeping far enough west for Ireland to be included at some point

Carol25

Graces7 wrote: »

Where are you? Sounds nearby to me.!

Hi Grace! We were in Belmullet, the Broadhaven Bay. It was fabulous! We toured the whole area today. Very still and calm. Some intermittent mist but dramatic cliffs, beach and walks nonetheless! Back in Galway now, some intermittent fog around but a nice night nonetheless!

Loughc

Right lads back to work tomorrow after 13 days off... give it to me straight when can we expect a snow event. I need this :pac:

Lucreto

Stocking up on snow shovels, bread, bread mix and those half baked rolls. Then sell them to the neighbours for a tidy profit if it snows. If not a lot of bread and butter pudding for me.

I love this forum, it keeps me up to date on any potential weather events. If the SSW come to pass and looking above it looks like it will, I got about two weeks to train someone to do aspects of my job if I can't get into work. The unfortunate soul lives 5 minutes from the office and I live in Kildare so he has no excuse.

Kingswood Rover

Lucreto wrote: »

Stocking up on snow shovels, bread, bread mix and those half baked rolls. Then sell them to the neighbours for a tidy profit if it snows. If not a lot of bread and butter pudding for me.

I love this forum, it keeps me up to date on any potential weather events. If the SSW come to pass and looking above it looks like it will, I got about two weeks to train someone to do aspects of my job if I can't get into work. The unfortunate soul lives 5 minutes from the office and I live in Kildare so he has no excuse.

During the snow last March it was the kildarites who got into work in the city more than the dubs.:eek:

Lucreto

Kingswood Rover wrote: »

During the snow last March it was the kildarites who got into work in the city more than the dubs.:eek:

Not for me. I couldn't get to the train station after the storm. Sallins was buried for days. The footpaths were not usable for a week afterwards.

SleetAndSnow

Another wet drizzly grey day in cork city. Meant to last all day. We aren't getting any break down here! Haha

Oscar Bravo

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Another wet drizzly grey day in cork city. Meant to last all day. We aren't getting any break down here! Haha

Same in Castlebar. Would love a cold crisp sunrise/sunset at this stage

KingdomRushed

I am sort of astonished that it could remain so relatively mild and frost free under an area of high pressure on what are days bang in the heart of winter.

Graces7

I was just outside for fuel and thought I was seeing things.. there are thick white clouds draped over the tops and sides of the mountains like snow.. awesome sight

It is noticeably colder and crisper out here now. A definite chill. The sky has a brightness. shivers! Clear wintry air

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Cork Boy 53

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Another wet drizzly grey day in cork city. Meant to last all day. We aren't getting any break down here! Haha

Yes back to the misty drizzly conditions here today with occasional bursts of light rain as well. Getting seriously fed up with it now.

Artane2002

KingdomRushed wrote: »

I am sort of astonished that it could remain so relatively mild and frost free under an area of high pressure on what are days bang in the heart of winter.

The high pressure was centred to our south over France which dragged in tropical maritime air from the Atlantic. Meanwhile, it has been cold and frosty in France where the high was centred.

Gonzo

back from a few days down the country with family. Conditions here are still the same as they have been for the past week, cloudy just slightly cooler, temperatures 7C so around normal for the time of year.

sryanbruen

Nice glimpse of a red sky this evening in Dublin 13.

Harry Palmr

This current setup looks to be locked in for another couple of weeks. The GFS has given up on anything from the west blowing in. The ECM isn't as bullish but it also suggests a quiet outlook.

Defaulter1831

Harry Palmr wrote: »

This current setup looks to be locked in for another couple of weeks. The GFS has given up on anything from the west blowing in. The ECM isn't as bullish but it also suggests a quiet outlook.

It was lovely over the Christmas for driving etc. But now i'm sick of it. It's a terrible waste of weeks of high pressure. Could do with it next summer when the Atlantic is throwing up rain belt after rain belt.

Harry Palmr

I know what you mean, the air needs freshening up.

Defaulter1831

An awful lot of chest and throat infections doing the rounds.

All very well saving money on heating but ending up paying for it in doctors' visits and antibiotics and steroids:P

It's as broad as it's long.

Reminds me of the old saying 'green Christmas a fat graveyard'.

sdanseo

Defaulter1831 wrote: »

An awful lot of chest and throat infections doing the rounds.

All very well saving money on heating but ending up paying for it in doctors' visits and antibiotics and steroids:P

It's as broad as it's long.

Reminds me of the old saying 'green Christmas a fat graveyard'.

I got a flu last year around the second week in January, and lo and behold again this year a bad cold since the 29th that's still not gone. The year before that again, had one also in January.

Convinced it's all the extra drink, lack of normal healthy(ish) food and general debauchery. But I have noticed a connection between very high pressure and illness as well. Have bad sinuses, so maybe I'm not mad and imagining it?

Defaulter1831

sdanseo wrote: »

I got a flu last year around the second week in January, and lo and behold again this year a bad cold since the 29th that's still not gone. The year before that again, had one also in January.

Convinced it's all the extra drink, lack of normal healthy(ish) food and general debauchery. But I have noticed a connection between very high pressure and illness as well. Have bad sinuses, so maybe I'm not mad and imagining it?

My theory is we come into Christmas tired, from buying presents, office parties, visiting friends. We often haven't taken leave in a while. Then the Christmas socialising, poor eating as you point out, leave us very vulnerable around New Year's.

irishrover99

Defaulter1831 wrote: »

An awful lot of chest and throat infections doing the rounds.

All very well saving money on heating but ending up paying for it in doctors' visits and antibiotics and steroids:P

It's as broad as it's long.

Reminds me of the old saying 'green Christmas a fat graveyard'.

Maybe a lot of people you know are just sick but in general this winter has been one of the quietest in A+E departments for a few years due to the milder weather with people on trollies in corridors down compared to the usual shoite that they have to put up with.
Flu admissions and other winter related illnesses are down and you would have expect injuries are also down with the lack of ice ect ect.
That for me is another reason to be thankful of the “mild” weather that everyone seems to struggling with.

Defaulter1831

irishrover99 wrote: »

Maybe a lot of people you know are just sick but in general this winter has been one of the quietest in A+E departments for a few years due to the milder weather with people on trollies in corridors down compared to the usual shoite that they have to put up with.
Flu admissions and other winter related illnesses are down and you would have expect injuries are also down with the lack of ice ect ect.
That for me is another reason to be thankful of the “mild” weather that everyone seems to struggling with.

Of course. I'm not talking major illness requiring hospital visits. But those ones that require a GP visit and medication as expensive as the fuel saved. A huge amount of people I know are out of work with infections.

acequion

irishrover99 wrote: »

Maybe a lot of people you know are just sick but in general this winter has been one of the quietest in A+E departments for a few years due to the milder weather with people on trollies in corridors down compared to the usual shoite that they have to put up with.
Flu admissions and other winter related illnesses are down and you would have expect injuries are also down with the lack of ice ect ect.
That for me is another reason to be thankful of the “mild” weather that everyone seems to struggling with.

Well I think everyone would be delighted to hear that.

Your last remark is rather exaggerated. I see that many,if not most of the posters here actually like this weather and good for them, but for those of us who wouldn't be fans, "struggling with" is a tad far fetched imo.

MidMan25

irishrover99 is the new Clonmel1000

irishrover99

MidMan25 wrote: »

irishrover99 is the new Clonmel1000

What. Someone else can also handle 11 degrees in winter😉

irishrover99

acequion wrote: »

Well I think everyone would be delighted to hear that.

Your last remark is rather exaggerated. I see that many,if not most of the posters here actually like this weather and good for them, but for those of us who wouldn't be fans, "struggling with" is a tad far fetched imo.

I was exaggerating a bit, but just a bit.

Billcarson

Defaulter1831 wrote: »

sdanseo wrote: »

I got a flu last year around the second week in January, and lo and behold again this year a bad cold since the 29th that's still not gone. The year before that again, had one also in January.

Convinced it's all the extra drink, lack of normal healthy(ish) food and general debauchery. But I have noticed a connection between very high pressure and illness as well. Have bad sinuses, so maybe I'm not mad and imagining it?

My theory is we come into Christmas tired, from buying presents, office parties, visiting friends. We often haven't taken leave in a while. Then the Christmas socialising, poor eating as you point out, leave us very vulnerable around New Year's.

I used to often get colds and flu almost like clockwork in early Jan. Think the excess drinking etc lowers one's resistance and also being in more contact with people, family , friends and being in pubs etc would mean the more likely of picking up a cold or flu .
Funnily enough it hasn't happened the last few yrs. I don't drink as much at Xmas time as I used to or be in the pubs as much either now that have small kids.

nthclare

The surfer's loved it over the weekend, I surfed both inch in Kerry and Spanish point in Clare.

The water temperature is still good, funnily enough Kerry was warmer than Clare.
Maybe the gulf stream swipes Kerry bringing in warmer water temperature.

Plenty of Pelagic fish still around I'm told

radley2019

I think our weather is great, wrap up and get out!