Snow 1982

MrBosco

1st post people here :-)

This is my back garden in Blanchardstown 1982.

Great days :-)

CianRyan

Real nice snaps, but there's a weather pictures sub forum, this really should of went in there.


I think there's some pics of the same snow in Tallaght around my house somewhere, if i can find them I'll scan 'em in and post them.

MrBosco

CianRyan wrote: »

Real nice snaps, but there's a weather pictures sub forum, this really should of went in there.


I think there's some pics of the same snow in Tallaght around my house somewhere, if i can find them I'll scan 'em in and post them.

Oops....newbie :-)

nacho libre

Great photos:) I hope i get to experience a snow event like that one before my time is up.

forkassed

:eek: wow

Supercell

Now THIS is what I remember as proper snow from my youth.
Most people these days dont have any idea of the kind of snows this country can really get at this time of year.
I remember that cold spell like it was yesterday.
Two weeks of lying deep snow at sea level in Dalkey..hasnt happened again since and may not again in my life time..hope springs eternal though!!
Moving to pictures forum for everyone's enjoyment

sillybird

Great pics! I guess we can only hope and dream of snow like that again

DOCARCH

Great pics - thanks for sharing.

As Supercell said, this too is how I remember snow. Jumping off walls into snow drifts, etc. Our road was amazing in 1982 beacuse all the front garden walls (about 4 foot high), shrubs, cars, all disappeard under snow drifts so you simply had a lumpy blanket of snow house to house!

Having experinced that, it is sometimes hard to get excited about a couple of mms of slushy wet snow.

homersimpson

Now thats a proper snowfall :eek::eek:

ninebeanrows

You lucky son of a........ Just wow, now thats exactly what i dream of:D:D:(

B.E.S.T.

Was that during the Christmas holidays?
I think we got an extra week off because of it. Snowdrifts 6` high. It was mad.

DOCARCH

B.E.S.T. wrote: »

Was that during the Christmas holidays?
I think we got an extra week off because of it. Snowdrifts 6` high. It was mad.

It was at the begining of January, I think it started on a Sunday night/Monday morning just before schools were due to re-open. Schools closed for an extra week.

One memory I have is that my parents had friends over the day before it started and I think the TV must have been on and there was mention of easterly gales, my parents friend said, oh we might get a bit of snow.....understatement of '82!

jonnner

Fantastic pictures! I must check if there are any photo's in my family.

DOCARCH

DOCARCH wrote: »

It was at the begining of January, I think it started on a Sunday night/Monday morning just before schools were due to re-open. Schools closed for an extra week.

It started on a wenesday night actually and the schools had opened[at least down here] on the tuesday.They didnt open on the thursday thats for sure or the friday or the whole of the following week
It snowed here non stop untill saturday lunchtime complete with thundersnow.
By the thursday night my 6ft tall Dad was waist deep in drifts.
By friday morning our road had disappeared as the snow had blown over the ditches completely filling it in.
The phones were working down here but no electrictity as the snow had frozen on the lines the thickness of a mug and just weighted them down.

Up on the hills in the croghan area the drifts were up to the tops of the tree's,thats over 30ft high.
Part of me was wishing it wouldnt be a once in a lifetime event but so far it has been.

Having witnessed it,I'd agree it's hard to get excited over a few cm's but hey we do dont we!

forkassed

I wasnt even born but i guess this chart shows the easterly gales that docarch refers to, so i'l be looking for charts like this one for the rest of my life.

spadder

Great pics, the "big snow" as it was known for years after. I remember building igloos, happy days.

DOCARCH

Just checked - 9th Jan '82 was a Sunday - I'm still think snow started that night/on the Monday morning? BB could be correct, but that's my rcolection.

MrBosco

Glad you all enjoyed the pics....

ah yes...if you notice...socks for gloves...socks for gloves

Bullet proof!!!

My recollection is of it starting on the wenesday night around 10pm here and then all that night,all day thursday,all night thursday night,all day friday,friday night untill it cleared around lunchtime on the saturday.

And indeed here is the chart for the 10th which shows the artic high coming down.There was no blizzard that day-so I'd put it at wenesday night the 5th through to the 9th

http://www.hf.rim.or.jp/~kaji/cal/cal.cgi?1982

Also according to that the 9th was a saturday not sunday meaning the artic high pushed down on the sunday which ties in with my recollection

Woden

Hehe. I was born on the 2nd Jan 82. Have heard a few times the story of the parents coming home from the hospital and the weather at the time.

soccerc

Deleted User wrote: »

It started on a wenesday night actually and the schools had opened[at least down here] on the tuesday.They didnt open on the thursday thats for sure or the friday or the whole of the following week
It snowed here non stop untill saturday lunchtime complete with thundersnow.
By the thursday night my 6ft tall Dad was waist deep in drifts.
By friday morning our road had disappeared as the snow had blown over the ditches completely filling it in.
The phones were working down here but no electrictity as the snow had frozen on the lines the thickness of a mug and just weighted them down.

Up on the hills in the croghan area the drifts were up to the tops of the tree's,thats over 30ft high.
Part of me was wishing it wouldnt be a once in a lifetime event but so far it has been.

Having witnessed it,I'd agree it's hard to get excited over a few cm's but hey we do dont we!

Snow started on the night of Thursday 7 Jan and by Friday mornig Dublin was a white out. Very vivid recollection of that day considering I recieved my first redundancy notice, still have the letter.

Quint

Cool photos, hard to find any of the big snow. Might take a look at home for some photos.

I Love Tea

I was only 7 at the time but I remember it. I remember my father having to open the front door with a shovel in his hand ready because as soon as it was opened the snow drift that had built up in the porch would just fall into the hallway

Steo46

there's no business like snow business,

cca13

Hello Mr. Bosco,

I am working on a television commercial. We are looking for photos of kids in snow from the blizzard of 1982. We would like to license one of these photos to use in the commercial. Can you contact me as soon as possible at cca13@sbcglobal.net

I am on a really tight deadline, so I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible.
Best,
Colleen

jambofc

was 12 and liveing in shankhill south dublin,what can i say never seen the like of it we were cut off from the world for a week shops ran out of stock esb was gone,have been liveing in hope of another 82 ever since and i get a feeling we are in for a snowy winter i can just feel it.
heres an old boards thread on it

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054920482


ah the memorys...........

maquiladora

cca13 wrote: »

Hello Mr. Bosco,

I am working on a television commercial. We are looking for photos of kids in snow from the blizzard of 1982. We would like to license one of these photos to use in the commercial. Can you contact me as soon as possible at cca13@sbcglobal.net

I am on a really tight deadline, so I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible.
Best,
Colleen

I'm guessing thats the Vodafone ad thats on now.

amdublin

And looks like they didn't use Mr Bosco's snap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO1xQ3A7Ze0

Personally I think the pic they went with is not half as good as Mr Bosco's.

And why reference the average snow in 81 compared with the Big Snow in 82

Quint

amdublin wrote: »

And looks like they didn't use Mr Bosco's snap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO1xQ3A7Ze0

Personally I think the pic they went with is not half as good as Mr Bosco's.

And why reference the average snow in 81 compared with the Big Snow in 82

Yeah, every time that ad comes on we're all saying "wasn't that 82?" How could they get that wrong!?

Enii

Thanks for the pics Mr. Bosco I still remember that big snow! Must check if I have pics of it and get them scanned and put them up here.

arctictree

Quint wrote: »

Yeah, every time that ad comes on we're all saying "wasn't that 82?" How could they get that wrong!?

They are actually right. There was widespread snow in mid december 1981 in the run up to XMas. From looking at the charts though, I dont think there was snow on XMas day itself.

'82' was the year of the big January snow.

dobsdave

arctictree wrote: »

They are actually right. There was widespread snow in mid december 1981 in the run up to XMas. From looking at the charts though, I dont think there was snow on XMas day itself.

'82' was the year of the big January snow.

Ah, that explains it,had an argument with my wife about that ad over the weekend!
Don't remember the 81 snow.

jenzz

Remember it would have been 82. I was 4 nearly 5 - Daddy was building our house at the time. We have tons of pics but there on one of those old projesctor thingys. One of me mum & sis walking over to the local school in the snow. Kats up to her waist & as I was so small walking on top of the 2 ft of it - didnt sink down just stayed up on top...

Said same thing when saw vodafone ad.... wasnt that 82 ??? My friend used to live in Roundwood & when we were about 18/19 we got stranded up in her house for 3 days with severe snow..... Spent 3 days freezing trying to get sheep in off the farm....

ongarboy

I believe the point of the advert is about the last time there was really significant snow on Christmas morning in Dublin ( judging by narrator's accent?) which was 1981? The Jan 82 snow wouldn't have anything to do with the last real "White Christmas" for Dublin.

holly1

I rember that so well,we couldent open the front door or get the car out of the driveway(never mind find it).There were cars abandoned everywhere.I thought the snow started on a friday evening as my hubby used to work.till 9.00 on fridays nights and it took him 3hours to get from Maynooth to Celbridge which is around 6 or 7 miles.Oh yea I was pregnant at the time and due that week,but she waited until the 15th of Jan.:):)I will never forget the wind it was deafening:eek:.

monkeypants

Was off school for over a week, which was fantastic as we never got a day off as my Da was the teacher. I was six and my brother was three. We took out our beach spades and started digging. The snow was up over his head!

Blizzerthj8

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Thanks!

fryup

thanks for the pics OP, brings a tear to my eye...remember it like it was yesterday

IrishHomer

I feel compelled to upload a photo (i must dig out some more better ones) as i don't think the snow of Jan 1982 will ever be matched in our lifetime as this 2010 freeze was a big letdown in relation to snofall ( i am trying to tempt fate here too )

Hope the image uploads ok here goes:

fryup

sh*tty cameras back in those days;)

yes i agree the recent big freeze was a let down snowfall wise, but the intense artic cold will live long in the memory

ltdslipdiff

Picture of my Dad and older brother at the top of our driveway, 1982. Thats a brown Toyota Camry under that snow drift. Only have vague memories, but all good! The Roadstone Quarry in Blessington sent their machines to clear the road later that day.

sryanbruen

Pictures of 1982 I've found throughout my research for my book on Winter 1981-82 (with photographers credited if available).

Milltownpass, Westmeath. Credit: Colm Smullen.



Ballymun Road, Dublin. Credit: Colm McMenamy.



Slievemore Road, Drimnagh, Dublin. Credit: EI-GJB.



Queuing for supplies in Springfield, Tallaght, Dublin. Credit: South Dublin Libraries.

sryanbruen

Not 100% sure if this was 1982 but an old image I found whilst scanning was this one of Coolock, Dublin in the snow.

quodec

Just wondering Sryanbruen, how your book is coming on?

redsteveireland

sryanbruen wrote: »

Not 100% sure if this was 1982 but an old image I found whilst scanning was this one of Coolock, Dublin in the snow.

I'm sure there are one or two around my house from '82 must ask the parents to dig them out for me.