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The Big Freeze ( Saturday 9th January 2010 )

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    #362
    CianRyan
    Registered Users Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    It has been snowing for over 4 hours here. No signs of stopping yet, either.

    Moderately heavy. Looks like about an inch and a half has fallen, maybe more.


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    #363
    alentejo
    Registered Users Posts: 892 ✭✭✭alentejo


    I recon todays snow was underestimated and the "big snow" forecast for tomorrow will turn out to be a disappointment


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    #364
    EKRIUQ
    Registered Users Posts: 4,386 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


    Light drizzle in Kilkenny of snow being like that for 20 minutes.


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    #365
    Rambling rose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭Rambling rose


    Morning all.
    I got my wish and woke up to lots of new snow (still bucketing down) Hope you did too and if not Im sure its en route.
    Enjoy xx


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    #366
    mad DIY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭mad DIY


    Flimbos wrote: »
    http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/4840255.Giant_snowball_blocks_street_in_Hemingbrough/

    This story is from a town over in Yorkshire but driving near Blanchardstown the other day I saw someone had left a huge snowball, probably 4ft diameter, on the road. Drive safe!

    Twas about 6 feet in diameter when I had to negioate my way around it last week !


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    #367
    Coyote
    Registered Users Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Coyote


    Cork_girl wrote: »
    The RSA has issued their 'Top 10 Safety Tips for Pedestrians'.

    I love the description of the overhead hazards - "In extreme cold weather icicles can build up in size very quickly and are lethal. Their size and dagger-like formation are extremely dangerous for pedestrians." :eek:

    they sound funny till your nearly killed by one
    about 3 years ago when I was snowboarding in Italy was walking around the side of the place I was staying and a 3 foot Icicle fell from the roof about 2 feet in front of me, dam things are very heave and pointy when falling from 30 feet up. after that I keep a close eye roofs and try not to walk under them when I can when away snowboarding. not sure how big a danger they would be in Ireland tho.


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    #368
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    alentejo wrote: »
    I recon todays snow was underestimated and the "big snow" forecast for tomorrow will turn out to be a disappointment

    any charts to back it up?! not doubting you or anything just like some reasoning?!


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    #369
    Rambling rose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭Rambling rose


    EKRIUQ wrote: »
    Light drizzle in Kilkenny of snow being like that for 20 minutes.

    I have loooooads of snow here, 10 mins South of city. Been snowing all morning. Whats your location?


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    #370
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,251 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    alfa beta wrote: »



    I have no charts, no technology and no idea.



    AB


    Exactly:p! Now ssssshh!!!


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    #371
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    dfbemt wrote: »
    Plus an elderly man found dead under a bush in his back garden in Wexford - frozen

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/widower-found-dead-in-frozen-back-garden-2006232.html

    RIP

    :( very sad and what a terrible way to go.


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    #372
    thetonynator
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    Rambling rose wrote: »
    I have loooooads of snow here, 10 mins South of city. Been snowing all morning. Whats your location?

    Quite a bit here in thomastown, light to moderaate snow for over an hour now!!!:D


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    #373
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    Still snowing in Lucan, though lighter than before. Been coming down for at least 2.5 hours now anyway. Car says -1 and that's the warmest i've seen day or night since Tuesday.


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    #374
    yogidc26
    Registered Users Posts: 646 ✭✭✭yogidc26


    I see the wind has change in the last hour or so is this going to bring more showers up from the sout east?


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    #375
    cian1500ww
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    Snowing here aswell now, not very heavy though.


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    #376
    alfa beta
    Registered Users Posts: 763 ✭✭✭alfa beta


    ever the optimist leahyl !!!

    i see you're on a hill in the northside - well I hope for your sake it's a big one - i'm sitting here in st lukes and i just know it'll all end in tears!!!

    (however i've just seen someone say it's snowing down the road in dungarvan - so maybe sshhhhhh is good advice - fingers crossed I'm wrong.)


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    #377
    mickger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 847 ✭✭✭mickger


    thetonynator wrote: »
    Quite a bit here in thomastown, light to moderaate snow for over an hour now!!!:D

    Maybe some might blow our way.


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    #378
    WolfeIRE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    tomorrow's system, which we christened Corsica last night, is now over SE france and N Italy
    http://www.yr.no/satellitt/1.5941760


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    #379
    Rambling rose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭Rambling rose


    mickger wrote: »
    Maybe some might blow our way.


    Shouldnt be far away. Its beautiful!!


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    #380
    cgf
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    Stopping here in D12 and clear sky to the East.

    Our lot for the day me thinks.


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    #381
    MetLuver
    Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭MetLuver


    morning all. light snow falling in Navan for a couple of hours now has eased for the moment.everywhere is white with snow and hoar frost.pity temps are to rise a bit tuesday onward but looks like it will be short lived as colder air looks likely to break through again.


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    #382
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,251 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    alfa beta wrote: »
    ever the optimist leahyl !!!

    i see you're on a hill in the northside - well I hope for your sake it's a big one - i'm sitting here in st lukes and i just know it'll all end in tears!!!

    (however i've just seen someone say it's snowing down the road in dungarvan - so maybe sshhhhhh is good advice - fingers crossed I'm wrong.)

    St lukes eh?! Well everyone knows how notorious st lukes is for NOT getting snow! Hehe! No but I seriusly think this is our time Alda - we're not meant to get it anyway till Sunday morning I think so a bit to go yet!:pac:


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    #383
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    mickger wrote: »
    Maybe some might blow our way.
    If you're really lucky, we might blow down some of our leftovers to waterford!!!:D


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    #384
    snaps
    Registered Users Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    Yep Snaps, been watching some lower middle level stuff moving in from the east over the last hour or so. Sickened really, as I was hoping for a deep blue sky day. :o

    Clouds now moving over me, they look very dark as well? Will we see any snow you think? Reckon there is a chance the west may see some? Still -6.8c here, but expecting that to rise now the clouds arriving!


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    #385
    [Deleted User]
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    A beautiful white snowy morning in Lucan. So pretty. So peaceful.
    Hope you all are having fun.:)
    Thanks Weather peeps for all the knowledge :)


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    #386
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,824 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Snow stopped here. 4.5cms of fresh snow.


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    #387
    kkontour
    Registered Users Posts: 352 ✭✭kkontour


    The owenbeg river is sligo is starting to freeze over
    I put pics here
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055793017


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    #388
    Rambling rose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭Rambling rose


    I spoke too soon.......its stopping :(


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    #389
    mickger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 847 ✭✭✭mickger


    thetonynator wrote: »
    If you're really lucky, we might blow down some of our leftovers to waterford!!!:D

    No thanks we have enough of you blowing over the bridge everyday ;)


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    #390
    Ludo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,015 ✭✭✭Ludo


    On top of a hill in rochestown here and getting darker. No hope of snow though


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    #391
    snow ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭snow ghost


    snaps wrote: »
    Clouds now moving over me, they look very dark as well? Will we see any snow you think? Reckon there is a chance the west may see some? Still -6.8c here, but expecting that to rise now the clouds arriving!


    I have a very strong suspicion - and it's not just wishful thinking - that the West is going to get hammered with snow in the next few days... any really big snow fall I have seen in these islands has mostly come unnanounced. ;)


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