Cold Spell - Feb 7th to 13th 2021 - Chat

Lashes28

Manitoban wrote: »

I’m 5 mins outside of dunleer and nothing here either, even though it’s showing snow falling all evening on the radar.

I've the blinds open tonight so I can check without leaving the bed lol

Seeing all these Louth posts and it's dry as a bone..

Graces7

Donegal Ken wrote: »

Temperatures could fall that low over some higher ground areas like mountains. This is most likely what it's picking up as them areas do have alot of mountains.

A low temperature warning may be issued for Tuesday night and Wednesday morning for Ireland as temperatures could drop to -6C or -7C locally in parts of the northwest, west and southwest.

OUCH!

Nqp15hhu

Maybe your man from eglinton can drive up and see what’s going on up there.

ari101

lucalux wrote: »

She looks like she's happy about the prospect of snow, like many of us here..

I've never seen her before, but is she always that wiggly?!:)

You made me open it to see

Clearly one of those kids who always spun in circles if they were let near an office chair

watlantic

What a surprise !
It's snowing lightly here near Westport.
Not much, but there's a light covering and it even is the powdery stuff, getting blown about a bit on the ground by the 10-15 knots NE wind.
Current temperature is -0.1ºC
I think I'll have a whiskey now, too.

Edit 01:45: Had the whiskey, 'cause it was over after few minutes and the still wet ground has absorbed most of it by now.
A good start though when you don't expect anything.
Wind now NE 13.2 kts, temp. +0.1, rel. hum. 84%, 1008 hPa

2nd edit 02:01 hrs:
It started to snow lightly again ! Not much, but it is nice to stand out there and watch the small flakes dancing towards your face and to feel them melt. I'm not that mad for snow, but 'gimmee' that now, so we can have decent spring. The first few seed spuds are in the ground (St. Bridget's day), but they're safely under cover. Bring it on !

lucalux

ari101 wrote: »

You made me open it to see

Clearly one of those kids who always spun in circles if they were let near an office chair

I was thinking the same! Loving the swivel chair to bits so she is, i kept rewinding it to marvel at the fluidity of the wiggles.
Hypnotic

Kermit.de.frog

Gonzo wrote: »

hopefully later tonight and tomorrow we will see streamers with the intensity that is currently in the far north of Donegal, those look like the real deal.

Being grapeling here in Dunshaughlin for several hours now and the 'depth' has barely changed. If this was snow rather than graupel we would have a decent covering by now.

Looks like the Irish Sea is waking up again.

How have you not seen snow given I'm much closer to the coast?

bassy

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

Maybe your man from eglinton can drive up and see what’s going on up there.

lol

Donegal Ken

Here is the snow accumulations so far across Culduff, north Inishowen, Donegal from them streamers. Decent covering already. Sent to mebby one of the page followers in the area.

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Dazler97

Snowing here in Carrick on Shannon now - 1c didn't think the showers would make it this far in

John.Icy

Dazler97 wrote: »

Snowing here in Carrick on Shannon now - 1c didn't think the showers would make it this far in

You could get a covering after all! That is a solid streamer going right at you if it keeps up decent intensity.

Dazler97

John.Icy wrote: »

You could get a covering after all! That is a solid streamer going right at you if it keeps up decent intensity.

Aw stop I hope so, I'm staying up anyway till like 4 so being it on, I honestly think more will fall possibly

Nqp15hhu

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

Maybe your man from eglinton can drive up and see what’s going on up there.

OR,
yer man from Delmonte will say........


YES! :P

Nabber

I think the ice pellets might be adding intensity to some of the streamers on radar, rover amplifying the actual activity. Louth/Cavan should be white by now according to the radar.

Dazler97

Nabber wrote: »

I think the ice pellets might be adding intensity to some of the streamers on radar, rover amplifying the actual activity. Louth/Cavan should be white by now according to the radar.

I'm hoping it reaches me in Carrick on Shannon, I've had a few flurries but that's it

watlantic

That light flurry of small flakes reported earlier continues near Westport and I'm still wondering where that came from. Streamers I wasn't expecting to reach here at all, but any climate has microclimates. Odd to see that white dusting here so early in this forecasting period.
Anyway, now it's back to 0.0ºC, the rest almost unchanged since my last report.
Flurry: Noun origin: late 17th century: from obsolete flurr‘fly up, flutter, whirr’ (imitative), probably influenced by hurry.

johnny45

Nothing in south dublin

redarmy

johnny45 wrote: »

Nothing in south dublin

Any snow?

lolie

It just shows how quickly things can change. When it looked like all the stuff on the radar was bypassing here earlier its snowing moderately here for the last two hours or so with the odd heavier burst with big fluffy flakes now and again.
2 cm on the ground already, south cavan.



Short clip https://streamable.com/o51rdj

Dazler97

lolie wrote: »

It just shows how quickly things can change. When it looked like all the stuff on the radar was bypassing here earlier its snowing moderately here for the last two hours or so with the odd heavier burst with big fluffy flakes now and again.
2 cm on the ground already, south cavan.

Send it west to Carrick on Shannon, also cavan should have been added in that warning, I mean Monaghan was

bassy

Dazler97 wrote: »

Send it west to Carrick on Shannon, also cavan should have been added in that warning, I mean Monaghan was

the night club still going strong in carrick,prior to covid.

lolie

Dazler97 wrote: »

Send it west to Carrick on Shannon, also cavan should have been added in that warning, I mean Monaghan was

If it's heading your direction then it should easily reach that far. Very heavy burst now, heaviest snow this winter.
Yeah i thought it a bit strange to not at least mention cavan or part of it in the warnings, there'll probably be one in the morning after the snow has stopped falling.

Dazler97

lolie wrote: »

If it's heading your direction then it should easily reach that far. Very heavy burst now, heaviest snow this winter.
Yeah i thought it a bit strange to not at least mention cavan or part of it in the warnings, there'll probably be one in the morning after the snow has stopped falling.

I hope I get more and yes haha they probably will issue a warning when it's too late

guil

Fiddlesticks, little to nothing left in the curragh on the way to work

dodo mommy

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Snow is great for kids and fun. For most it is a fkn pain in the rear end.

I love the way the worst possible influx of sneachta will always melt in the end.

Couldn't agree with you more, snow is a absolute pain great for kids but why on earth would anybody in their right mind want it to snow? It only brings hardship and misery when trying to work outside.

Humberto Salazar

No snow Offaly, wasn't expecting anything. Dry as a bone and cold.

Lucreto

Naas didn't receive any more since last night.

Oh well, those are the breaks

Graces7

Scuid Mhór wrote: »

It's pretty cold and my radiator isn't working, but snow will be a nice distraction for a few days from the liminal life we have found for ourselves recently.

Please get some heat going? Hypothermia is not funny and creeps up on you unawares..

Graces7

dodo mommy wrote: »

Couldn't agree with you more, snow is a absolute pain great for kids but why on earth would anybody in their right mind want it to snow? It only brings hardship and misery when trying to work outside.

I know, I know. Most here have never seen or " suffered" real snow. But at least all this is a real distraction just now. Back in 2010 after a couple of weeks of it the mood changed!

I lived a decade up in Orkney where we had thick snow every winter and the attitude was totally different there. It changed how I saw it forever. Caution and enjoy the sight. I had livestock to protect too. It was simply an integral part of life there. Here it is a novelty.

Graces7

I went to check met ie, saw the temp figure of -2 and closed the page... I finished knitting a blanket yesterday and it is on the bed straight away.

Hibernation makes sense...