Heaviest hail i've ever seen

Bartronilic

Wow. ANyone else see it? (hard to miss)

blu_sonic

not the heaviest i've every seen but pretty bad, at the rovers match last night it was pelting down and it was of a fairly large size to

Fajitas!

That was pretty damn heavy alright!

xzanti

I walked out of Peter Marks with my lovely new hair do and it started

Son of a B*tch

Macha

I got caught in it on my bike. It was feckin painful!

JaysusMacfeck

And now it's a beautiful day again!

lee_baby_simms

JaysusMacfeck wrote:

And now it's a beautiful day again!

This is it.

johnnyrotten

April Showers

Stench Blossoms

xzanti wrote:

I walked out of Peter Marks with my lovely new hair do and it started

Son of a B*tch

Oh god. Hate that.

That really annoys me. Always bring an umbrella, even if its sunny out when getting your hair done!

ferdi

i was out in it in tshirt and flip flops, feckin terrible

homah_7ft

There was hail?

johnnyrotten

homah_7ft wrote:

There was hail?

Correct!

Pherekydes

The heaviest hail I ever saw was in "The Day After Tomorrow". It was just big chunks of ice. Who they kiddin'? It has to be spherical:

http://www.chaseday.com/hailstones.htm

aidan_walsh

homah_7ft wrote:

There was hail?

This is another thread deserving of the Dublin forum, it would seem.

BlueSpiral

I was in it. When it started, everybody on Grafton street scattered in to the shops for safety. About 50 people stood in hmv and watched it. Poor buskers.
It was worse because i had to run and catch a bus and I was in a skirt.

Heyes

xzanti wrote:

I walked out of Peter Marks with my lovely new hair do and it started

Son of a B*tch

/me giggles...

i hate when that happens...

Oryx

aidan_walsh wrote:

This is another thread deserving of the Dublin forum, it would seem.

Nah, It fell on Wexford too. More fun than drizzly rain at least:o

melekalikimaka

i thought my window was gonna crack at one point

darkman2

Last night was even worse at about 9 or so:) Hail is very common this time of year....not to worry though it will sart getting warmer from next week;)

Flashling

I was in tower records and the music was so loud I didn't hear it! I came out and there were people having hail fights in the street, and it was about 2cm thick on the streets! :eek:

darkman2

Interestingly a covering of snow is possible in Northern and Western parts tonight.:)

Some freakish falls of large hail today thoguh at Dublin Airport earlier.

qwertz

That wasn't big at all. Fist-sized is big, will make you run for cover. It did make me run

zuma

A load of hail fell down in Limerick ~18:00 as well.....pretty heavy as well!

lucernarian

Yesterday afternoon, we had lying hail after a ferocious hail shower that lasted a good 20 minutes. Immediately afterwards, I found a wee drift that was 3 inches deep. The ground was its whitest since November. It's a strange winter when the most wintry days are in November, followed by April.

Btw the hail size was not spectacular, it was the sheer quantity of it.

Snowbie

I played a footie match yesterday out in Tallaght in it and ouch it did hurt,made the rest of the players run a bit more though-lol:D

Left the pitch white as if it snowed hard but soon melted and good god it was cold.:eek:

CombatCow

yeah it was amazing, I took some pictures for your viewing pleasure.This was saturday the 8'th at 13:36 on henry st.




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Danno

:eek: that was a fair fall!

ninebeanrows

Nice pics closest you'll get to lying snow in the city center!

Weathercheck

Weathercheck wrote:

Nice pics closest you'll get to lying snow in the city center!

january 1982 wc, the army were clearing snow off the pavements in Dublin city centre.
News pictures showed it piled several feet high outside the GPO and down o'connell st.
I also recall that the TV crew drove down the N11 and wents a few miles inland hoping to make it to Roundwood but only got as far as where the road was totally blocked.The road beyond that point had disappeared as the snow was above the ditches.
The diggers clearing the snow had given up.The reporter was standing beside the drift blocking the road( A drift that went as far as the eye could see along where the road should have been ) and it was well up over his head.
I remember it like yesterday.That report would have been after monday a couple of days after the snow had stopped as we had no electricity here untill then.

I see no reason why there couldnt be a repeat.In fact if the synoptics we've had for the last 8 weeks were to happen in jan or feb, that would do it at least once or twice.

Snowbie

Very true Earthman,if it were only Jan or Feb it would be very interesting,like me when i was young Jan 82 was brilliant. Were i lived(my parents still do) at Donaghmede shopping centre there is a 3.5 foot wall around the centre,well you could walk up the drift and down the other side not knowing there was a wall there, simply amazing.

far2gud

Anyone know where I cana find some pictures of the 82 snow?.. surely they had cameras back then?

local newspapers.
Theres also likely to be archive news footage out at RTÉ

daveirl

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CombatCow

:eek: humm, nope i didn't send it in at all...... hope martin gave me some credit for it LOL


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