The Snow Lovers Appreciation Society Winter 2014/15 #MOD NOTE #1

SnowDancer wrote: »

For some reason I can no longer post pictures or images 😔 but there is a great article trending on buzzfeed today called - 24 Pictures That Perfectly Capture How Insane The Snow Is Near Buffalo, New York

Maybe someone else can post a link to it

Sorry Snowdancer but since earlier this year any links require a minimum of 50 posts and an account older than 10 days - you're nearly there though

Here's the link to the Buzzfeed article you wanted to post 24 Pictures That Perfectly Capture How Insane The Snow Is Near Buffalo, New York

ardmacha wrote: »

No problem. You just dig out from your drive to the street. Of course the street may not be in great shape!

The fecking eejit
Where did he think he was going? He should have just scrawled on the top of the snow "Not even going to bother with an exercise in futility"

Coming soon to a town near you........:)



On a more serious note, yes the Atlantic is like a big radiator. But as said here already it gets turned off every so often. The Strat Polar Votex is in trouble at the moment. Better chance than last year no matter what folks think but yes nothing is guaranteed so Let the beast from the east enter the picture and it's curtains. Probably be January at this stage.

maquiladora wrote: »

Yep but if you have sustained cold to your east then you can expect a good chance of getting outbreaks of cold air heading your way at times, though this gets balanced out by the milder periods, and so over the course of 3 months the temperature anomalies balance out.
But if you don't have cold established to the east there then you're kinda depending on wishy washy polar maritime northerly stuff.

That's not necessarily true Maq. Remember in 2010, the second and most brutal cold spell of that record breaking month came directly from the North.

As per Met.ie extreme Weather Events December 2010-16th to 25th: A cold front moving southwards on the 16th re-introduced an arctic airstream across
the country. Bitterly cold Northerly winds brought snow showers in many areas, most frequently
along Atlantic and Irish Sea coasts, causing considerable disruption of road and air travel. Freezing
conditions persisted for long periods, with the temperature remaining below 0°C for nine
consecutive days in some inland areas.

The lowest
December air temperature ever measured in the country, -17.5°C, was recorded at the
climatological station of Straide, Co. Mayo, on the morning of the 25th
And northern Ireland broke it's all time record when it recorded -18.7 during this time.

On December 17/18th after the Snow had cleared temperatures dropped like a stone. 7 degree drop in 1hr was recorded in NI.

I believe MT called it the Greenland Express. So no you don't need sustained cold in the East, that Cold spell was entirely of a Northerly origin. In fact you could say an Easterly was wishy in comparison to that Northerly