Winter 20/21 - General Discussion

cnocbui

OneEightSeven

-8 in February 2015 is the last time I remember it being this cold without snow on the ground.

https://cli.fusio.net/cli/climate_data/graph.php?pltfile=tmp/pltk1NjmG&stnname=DUBLIN%20AIRPORT&year=2015&xaxisGranularity=MONTHLY&height=1000px&fullscreen=true

Slashermcguirk

I think December 2010 saw temps in Dublin down around -12 but I could be mistaken. Certainly they went below -10

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Anyone know when the last time was it was this cold in Dublin?

NMB

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

I think December 2010 saw temps in Dublin down around -12 but I could be mistaken. Certainly they went below -10

I recorded a -11 in D6 in Dec 2010

cnocbui

I grabbed a macro lens and broke out the tripod, a fleece hat and my down jacket. My car windscreen this morning.

Thelonious Monk

It looks like that time I did ayahuasca ^^

Danno

DOCARCH wrote: »

-7c at Casement and Dunsany at 0900.

Lowest I have seen at Met E stations overnight is -8c (at a couple of stations). So, assume, overnight low is somewhere between -7.5 and -8.5c.

https://twitter.com/LaoisWeather/status/1347853240986202112?s=20

Back up to a balmy -3.3c now. How quickly the sun gets to work!

DOCARCH

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1347858194022985728

piplip87

https://twitter.com/LieSmeller/status/1347858413565464576?s=19

Lough Ramor, this morning

Billcarson

Got down to -4.7c here in Ashbourne, my coldest night since early feb 2015. Always difficult to get past -5c here without snowcover

fryup

pity it wasn't like this a fortnight ago

Slashermcguirk

One of the most beautiful winter days I can remember in a long time. Blue skies, calm, Baltic but stunning for a walk

esposito

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

One of the most beautiful winter days I can remember in a long time. Blue skies, calm, Baltic but stunning for a walk

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Out for a walk now in Dublin 16 and it’s glorious. Frost everywhere. Local pond is completely frozen. Can see tiny fish swimming underneath the ice.

lolie

The gauge at 8.16 this morning showed -9.6 here. Most likely the coldest morning since Christmas morning 2010.
Nearly all back roads round here still frozen solid with the snow and frost since Wednesday night.

Comhrá

My Davis station is showing -1.5c just now, and it's getting direct sun since around 10.30am. Very unusual for it to be sub zero at midday in it's location, my back garden. Limk City suburbs.

Gonzo

got to -9 here in Dunshaughlin before dawn, incredible temperature. At the moment everything is still frozen solid and we now have a high of -1C. The milder air is beginning to head in now so we may get a degree or two above freezing before the frost returns tonight. We did not get this cold during the BFTE/Storm Emma so I reckon this is probably the coldest night we had since December 2010 as well.

If the temperature today stays at -1 it would tie today as the coldest day of the winter along with the freezing fog ice day we had back in early December, but i've a feeling we will get just above 0 at some point today with milder uppers moving in.

Graces7

Grizzled gray and wet rain. Snow on the tops, but it is frugal and see-through. A mean scattering . No generosity about it! Tantalus..

The cold has been unspeakable. Physically painful. Feet are still icicled

Some lovely photos! Thank you. I remember the sea frozen at Killybegs that time ..

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

I was in Dublin last night which was in the -5 °C to -8 °C range and I stood outside in my undies in the wee small hours to test myself and feel alive (I’ve a life-limiting illness which really restricts me so I have to find my kicks in other ways ). Lasted about 30 seconds. :eek:

Gonzo

temperature now back to 1C so the ice day in early December remains unbeaten.

Arduach

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I was in Dublin last night which was in the -5 °C to -8 °C range and I stood outside in my undies in the wee small hours to test myself and feel alive (I’ve a life-limiting illness which really restricts me so I have to find my kicks in other ways ). Lasted about 30 seconds. :eek:

Have you any pics?

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Arduach wrote: »

Have you any pics?

Ha, this was not what you were imagining, I assure you. :pac:

Arduach

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Ha, this was not what you were imagining, I assure you. :pac:

I got a wee bit excited at the thought of a lady in her undies in the frost!

Danno

lolie wrote: »

The gauge at 8.16 this morning showed -9.6 here. Most likely the coldest morning since Christmas morning 2010.
Nearly all back roads round here still frozen solid with the snow and frost since Wednesday night.

Where are you located Lolie? Is your station online?

SleetAndSnow

3 degrees in cork city now. footpaths, driveway and grass still has snow in it from Wed, doesn't get the sun!

sryanbruen

Here's a selection of the minimum air temperatures at Irish stations from this morning and the last time there was an air temperature as low as/lower than that respective value. For many, it was the coldest temperatures since Christmas Day 2010.



N.B. Synoptic stations are midnight to midnight above whilst climate stations are 09 to 09 so dates/values might differ somewhat.

To those of you who have asked me queries about the stratosphere, sorry I haven't been giving updates on it. On a personal note, I have been very busy getting the last of my college assignments done for the semester. Things continue to look interesting there though I must say!

Oh and about that weather today... what a day!

Graces7

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I was in Dublin last night which was in the -5 °C to -8 °C range and I stood outside in my undies in the wee small hours to test myself and feel alive (I’ve a life-limiting illness which really restricts me so I have to find my kicks in other ways ). Lasted about 30 seconds. :eek:

lol.. there is nothing quite like the feel of cold air and wet rain on bare skin! I am so isolated out here... And when I talk about taking a shower....at my advanced ago anything is … You go girl!

Slashermcguirk

I was looking at the cold spell in January 2010, we always think of December 2010 as the real cold blast but actually Casement In Dublin recorded nearly -13 In January 2010 (-12.4). I will check December 2010 too. I think because that January there was far less snow it can be easily forgotten but it was actually really cold too. There was some snow that January but nothing like what would fall the following winter

Ok having looked at December 2010, the coldest official temp recorded in casement in Dublin was actually -15.7 degrees on Christmas night. Crikey forgot how insanely cold it actually was.

-17.5 was recorded in Mayo that December

OneEightSeven wrote: »

-8 in February 2015 is the last time I remember it being this cold without snow on the ground.

https://cli.fusio.net/cli/climate_data/graph.php?pltfile=tmp/pltk1NjmG&stnname=DUBLIN%20AIRPORT&year=2015&xaxisGranularity=MONTHLY&height=1000px&fullscreen=true

Danno

sryanbruen wrote: »

On a personal note, I have been very busy getting the last of my college assignments done for the semester.

Keep up the good work, best of luck with your assignments.

Graces7

Off topic so please excuse but I would love to measure wind speeds out here; are the measuring devices expensive, please? Thank you

thatsmighty

At least the roads aren't like sheets of ice