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Winter 2011/2012

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    Hopefully we get winter in December like last year and then be done with it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Pangea


    Min wrote: »
    Hopefully we get winter in December like last year and then be done with it.

    If we get a winter like last november and december I wont give a dam what happens after the new year.
    (that is until greed comes into play :pac:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭WalterMitty


    not sure if this story was posted on this thread already but here it is anyway

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14029995


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭touts


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    Autumn 2011 - Winter 2012


    These are the latest long term projections produced by the PWS System for the UK and Eire.

    Unless stated, averages apply nationwide for UK and Eire.


    September 2011

    Slightly warmer than average.

    Drier than average.

    October 2011

    On the average for temperature.

    On the average for rainfall.

    November 2011

    On the average for temperature.

    Drier than average.

    December 2011

    Colder than average.

    Wetter than average.

    January 2012

    Decidedly colder than average.

    Wetter than average.

    February 2012

    Decidedly colder than average.

    Wetter than average.
    I looked up what decidedly meant and it means definitely or undoubtedly :D
    I realy hope this winter is going to be as cold as everyone thinks and forecasts it to be :D

    Does anyone have their forecast for this summer because I have a stockpile of factor50 bought in the spring sales I would like to shove up someone's ass.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    I have to say winter has started very early this year...

    I hate this cold weather, Evelyn was mentioning new records lows for the nights this week.
    The current weather is coming from Greenland and Iceland, wish they would keep it for themselves. They are too generous, if only we could get rid of unwanted gifts...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    ye well in dublin right now it is gloomy,cold,windy and wet. if someone were to tell me it was in fact november and not july right now i would 100 percent beleive them :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,601 ✭✭✭200motels


    Min wrote: »
    Hopefully we get winter in December like last year and then be done with it.
    Let's hope so and we down here get a little bit more snow.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    I'm going to put my logical hat on here for a sec... There can only be 2 possibilities here I think...

    (1) There is no change to our weather pattern down to sun spot activity, etc. If this is the case then isn't it highly improbable that next winter will be as cold as the last two?

    (2) There is a change to our weather, down to solar activity or some other event and we can expect cold weathers from now on?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    I'm going to put my logical hat on here for a sec... There can only be 2 possibilities here I think...

    (1) There is no change to our weather pattern down to sun spot activity, etc. If this is the case then isn't it highly improbable that next winter will be as cold as the last two?

    (2) There is a change to our weather, down to solar activity or some other event and we can expect cold weathers from now on?

    (3) Our weather reverts to the usual mild wet winters and continues with the mild wet summers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    (3) Our weather reverts to the usual mild wet winters and continues with the mild wet summers.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    I nearly fell off the chair earlier over in AH when someone mentioned graupel in the middle of a thead! :D:D:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    why?:p its not even funny :p and whats ah.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,009 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    This thread is making me sad that its not Winter :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I'm going to put my logical hat on here for a sec... There can only be 2 possibilities here I think...

    (1) There is no change to our weather pattern down to sun spot activity, etc. If this is the case then isn't it highly improbable that next winter will be as cold as the last two?

    (2) There is a change to our weather, down to solar activity or some other event and we can expect cold weathers from now on?
    I think there was a change in the weather, which has since passed over.

    From about the mid-late-ninties up to 2008, our summers appeared to get particularly warmer and drier and our winters milder and wetter.

    Perhaps it's because I was young in the 90's, but the snowfall which started on New Year's Eve 2009 (i.e. 31/12/2009) was the first heavy snowfall that I could recall since sometime in the late nineties. Sure we'd had a couple of winters with 5cm of snow or less, which landed in a day or two and was gone in half the time.

    By contrast, winter when I was a child always had at least one big snowfall, lasting a week or more, and a few more random flurries scattered around.

    Last winter is the heaviest I remember - we had lying snow for a month - but the mild winters we've had during the 2000's are the mildest I remember. If anything, the 2000's were the "blip", and the last two winters were a return to normality, and can be expected to continue in future. Though perhaps not to the same insane extent. IMHO.


  • Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭pancuronium


    I say rolll on the snow............


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    I say roll on the summer and some heat before it is winter.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    IM ORDERING SKIS TODAY! :D




  • This thread has reminded me that I must relay a section of water pipe that froze last year!


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭Calibos


    I don't know what to do. I love the snow, I want it, but I also want to be better prepared for it....and you know what that means.

    So the question is, do I prepare this time and buy crampons and snow socks for the car and snow shovels etc and be virtually guaranteed no snow or do I get them in advance only to have them gather dust for the next half decade?

    Decisions Decisions! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,240 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Only another few weeks left for me before I get in Winter mode! Have a sun holiday at the end of August and after that it's full steam ahead!! BRING IT ON!!:D:p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Calibos wrote: »
    I don't know what to do. I love the snow, I want it, but I also want to be better prepared for it....and you know what that means.

    So the question is, do I prepare this time and buy crampons and snow socks for the car and snow shovels etc and be virtually guaranteed no snow or do I get them in advance only to have them gather dust for the next half decade?

    Decisions Decisions! :D

    Get some salt for out side your house. Look at pipes now and figure on extra insulation/combating the cold. I wouldn't give snow shoes for cars the time of day, I am told they don't last long at all. Better to get a spare set of snow wheels for the car. I think it was said in Motoring how some guy imports partially used snow wheels from Germany for reasonable prices.


  • Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Yeah, as johngalway says, think about the things that you were missing last year and go out now and buy them while they're cheap. Driveway salt (or even dishwasher salt), spades, shovels, etc.

    Snow socks are fantastic inventions, but they're for emergency use - to get your car through a few hundred metres of impassable snow or up a steep hill. If you drive on them where the thickness of the compacted snow on the road is less than 30mm, they will be ruined. They're good for me because the entrance/exit to my estate is a hill, and the roads around my area have consistently gotten blocked by people struggling up slight inclines, so I was able to use the snow socks to get up Stocking Lane (which had been effectively abandoned) and bypass the chaos.

    Snow Tyres/Wheels are all well and good, but I can't justify the expense nor do I have anywhere to store them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭HellFireClub


    I'm noticing lately that there seems to be a bit of an urban myth emerging in conversations I'm having when I'm out and about, that people are saying that they heard (nobody knows from who though, just "someone in the know" lol!!!), that this coming winter is going to be by far, the most harsh, coldest and severe to date, taking into special account, the last two extremely cold winters...

    The thing is, there doesn't seem to be any actual forecaster or specialist that is behind this, but yet apparently people are hearing about a slow down in the appearance of sun spots/solar activity, and as human's are prone to do, a lot of folks are then making a huge leap of assumption on the back of that statement on solar activity, and are assuming that the next winter is going to be like something out of Siberia!

    Is anyone else finding this weird yet welcome logic emerging in social conversations?!? :cool::cool::cool:

    Sure you can almost hear it on this thead lol!


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,240 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    I'm noticing lately that there seems to be a bit of an urban myth emerging in conversations I'm having when I'm out and about, that people are saying that they heard (nobody knows from who though, just "someone in the know" lol!!!), that this coming winter is going to be by far, the most harsh, coldest and severe to date, taking into special account, the last two extremely cold winters...

    The thing is, there doesn't seem to be any actual forecaster or specialist that is behind this, but yet apparently people are hearing about a slow down in the appearance of sun spots/solar activity, and as human's are prone to do, a lot of folks are then making a huge leap of assumption on the back of that statement on solar activity, and are assuming that the next winter is going to be like something out of Siberia!

    Is anyone else finding this weird yet welcome logic emerging in social conversations?!? :cool::cool::cool:

    Sure you can almost hear it on this thead lol!

    Ya I know isn't it great?! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,240 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Iancar29 wrote: »
    IM ORDERING SKIS TODAY! :D

    An INCY WINCY bit premature perhaps;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    leahyl wrote: »
    An INCY WINCY bit premature perhaps;)

    I dont exactly need lots of snow for them , my doggy can pull me along the road . For 60 euro i think it'll be a laugh :):):)...

    It would be funny though if it is indeed gonna be worse than last 2 years... ( BETTER :D ) ... ANd the only way to get about is by skis ! ha :D

    Oh and it the solar scientist/meteorological people that are hinting at the worse winter this year :)....

    Plus , the naturists seeing all the birds and flowers and what not doing things that hint at a possible colder winter this year... :)

    Like heres one from last year http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/19/uk-weather-cold-winter-swans ... i wonder how soon they get back THIS year :):):)


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


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    I just want to see this again ha :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,009 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    *Waits for MTs post entetled "Arctic Express"*


    :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    t|nt|n wrote: »
    *Waits for MTs post entetled "Arctic Express"*


    :pac:

    CHUUUUU CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!! :D:D:D:D:D:D


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  • I'm noticing lately that there seems to be a bit of an urban myth emerging in conversations I'm having when I'm out and about, that people are saying that they heard (nobody knows from who though, just "someone in the know" lol!!!), that this coming winter is going to be by far, the most harsh, coldest and severe to date, taking into special account, the last two extremely cold winters...

    The thing is, there doesn't seem to be any actual forecaster or specialist that is behind this, but yet apparently people are hearing about a slow down in the appearance of sun spots/solar activity, and as human's are prone to do, a lot of folks are then making a huge leap of assumption on the back of that statement on solar activity, and are assuming that the next winter is going to be like something out of Siberia!

    Is anyone else finding this weird yet welcome logic emerging in social conversations?!? :cool::cool::cool:

    Sure you can almost hear it on this thead lol!

    Negative north atlantic oscillation! We keep getting arctic air! If there isnt a change in the pattern we will get a snowy winter!


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