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The Big Freeze ( Saturday 9th January 2010 )

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    #842
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    hawker wrote: »

    Keep up the good work. I love reading it. I hope to contribute more as I gain a bit of knowledge.


    I have absolutely no knowledge and I post the whole time!!!:D:D:D


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    #843
    GavinH
    Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭GavinH


    leahyl wrote: »
    Nope but very very cold here in the real capital! Hehe!


    Leahyl, like yourself i have been waiting. However did see two flurries today :)


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    #844
    thetonynator
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    Musicman2000 wrote: »
    A light shower in south Kilkenny a few minutes ago and no sign of a thaw here all day

    Not in my part of South Kilkenny!!!:mad:

    Not much thaw here either, never rose above -1.


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    #845
    JanuarySnowstor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭JanuarySnowstor


    Major backtrack from the gfs and ukmo after wed
    Cold continues with the scandi high getting stronger again.
    Looks like a marginal blip tues / wed if at all

    Of course before all this a nationwide snowstorm tomorrow, worst for the south


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    #846
    Bishop_Donal
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    Weight of forecasts for tomorrow seem to be edging ever closer to rain / sleet. Every time you look away for 2 hours the position deteriorates further.:mad:


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    #847
    [Deleted User]
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    jenzz wrote: »
    Lol now now - Wonder what its like in Owen land ? 1metre yet ??
    It's going to be snowy in jenzz land anyhow for the next few hours looking at the radar..


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    #848
    JanuarySnowstor
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    GavinH wrote: »
    Leahyl, like yourself i have been waiting. However did see two flurries today :)

    Your only seeing the menu for tomor
    Starter course for cork before lunch
    Main course 3-9pm when we will see inches of snow


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    #849
    Rougies
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    JanuarySnowstor wrote: »
    Major backtrack from the gfs and ukmo after wed
    Cold continues with the scandi high getting stronger again.
    Looks like a marginal blip tues / wed if at all

    Of course before all this a nationwide snowstorm tomorrow, worst for the south

    It's for the posts like this that I sit at my PC pressing f5 for hours on end :D


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    #850
    munsterlegend
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    JanuarySnowstor wrote: »
    Major backtrack from the gfs and ukmo after wed
    Cold continues with the scandi high getting stronger again.
    Looks like a marginal blip tues / wed if at all

    Of course before all this a nationwide snowstorm tomorrow, worst for the south

    and is there not a major snow event for tuesday as well possibly? this cold seems determined to stay.

    i presume you are including cork in the south!


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    #851
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users Posts: 6,166 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    Bishop_Donal wrote: »
    Weight of forecasts for tomorrow seem to be edging ever closer to rain / sleet. Every time you look away for 2 hours the position deteriorates further.:mad:


    ???


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    #852
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,258 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    JanuarySnowstor wrote: »
    Major backtrack from the gfs and ukmo after wed
    Cold continues with the scandi high getting stronger again.
    Looks like a marginal blip tues / wed if at all

    Of course before all this a nationwide snowstorm tomorrow, worst for the south

    :Djanuarysnowstor you never fail to keep me upbeat - nationwide snowstorm lol! Let's hope so:D!


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    #853
    ardmacha
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    Weight of forecasts for tomorrow seem to be edging ever closer to rain / sleet.

    Rain/sleet without a general thaw to follow would be a disaster, much worse then snow.


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    #854
    kleefarr
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    Kilkenny City outskirts...

    Reached a max of -1.0. Has dropped 1.0°C in the last half hour.
    My attempts all day of thawing the mains water have failed miserably.
    At least we have heat, open fire and central heating.
    Getting buckets of water from neighbours.

    Temperature: -2.3 °C
    Dew Point: -2.9 °C


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    #855
    snow ghost
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    jenzz wrote: »
    Lol now now - Wonder what its like in Owen land ? 1metre yet ??


    Owen the Eagle is practising for the winter olympics by ski jumping and ice skating - on a car park that he thinks is a frozen lake - for when the event inevitably comes to Coleraine. apart from that he is celebrating passing his exam in teaching English as a Foreign Language... the examiner said that Owen's English was foreign to him. :)


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    #856
    TheMilkyPirate
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    Rougies wrote: »
    It's for the posts like this that I sit at my PC pressing f5 for hours on end :D

    Believe it or not i never knew f5 was refresh, Cheers rougies


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    #857
    zenno
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    well don't eat my head off but north-east dublin is only going to get the odd tiny snow flurry tonight the south-east will get a nice accumulation over night. tomorrow night is the important one.


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    #858
    naughto
    Registered Users Posts: 7,337 ✭✭✭naughto


    vizualpics wrote: »
    Was about to head up to the booster station outside cbar for a hike, but glad I didnt now...Great to see snow today, hopefully more tonight!
    yes it is as we got very little compare to some places


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    #859
    jenzz
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    It's going to be snowy in jenzz land anyhow for the next few hours looking at the radar..

    Thank you hun

    I dont think i want anymore though..., Another 3 cm easily this morning....The dogs in heat..... She wont go out..... The kids are sick of the cold..... They wont go out.....

    Ah no sod it - bring it on .....I need to make a sofa to go with the arm chair... The lady boy needs a boy/girl friend..... & I no longer need to use the freezer to freeze anything lol

    :D


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    #860
    JanuarySnowstor
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    munsterlegend wrote: »
    and is there not a major snow event for tuesday as well possibly? this cold seems determined to stay.

    i presume you are including cork in the south!

    Cork is the south:D:D


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    #861
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users Posts: 6,166 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    JanuarySnowstor wrote: »
    Cork is the south:D:D

    so true so true.


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    #862
    Johnny1999
    Registered Users Posts: 112 ✭✭Johnny1999


    Just thinking (which is not normal) If the lowest recorded Temp is Minus 19 back in 1942 or whenever. ME still acknowledge that but fail to recognise Villians minus 17.4. The equipment used back then can't have been as accurate as today's computers etc, so why can they not accept it from Villain? we should start a petition thread and give it to THEM!


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    #863
    mickger
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    Was out for the afternoon and it was lovely and sunny but very cold. Checked the radar and could'nt believe how much action is going on in the east and the Irish Sea. I guess our snow shield will block anything thats coming near us :mad: Temp is -1.5c DP -3.1c.


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    #864
    jenzz
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    snow ghost wrote: »
    Owen the Eagle is practising for the winter olympics by ski jumping and ice skating - on a car park that he thinks is a frozen lake - for when the event inevitably comes to Coleraine. apart from that he is celebrating passing his exam in teaching English as a Foreign Language... the examiner said that Owen's English was foreign to him. :)

    PMSL:D:D:D

    & then he has to go back to school on Monday as their schools arent closed despite 2 metres of snow


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    #865
    Trotter
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    zenno wrote: »
    well don't eat my head off but north-east dublin is only going to get the odd tiny snow flurry tonight the south-east will get a nice accumulation over night. tomorrow night is the important one.

    How come the forecasts are starting to say that there'll be rain here in the South East?


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    #866
    [Deleted User]
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    Someone has just posted beautifull pictures of the snow in south co wicklow :)

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055793136


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    #867
    jenzz
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    snow ghost wrote: »
    Owen the Eagle is practising for the winter olympics by ski jumping and ice skating - on a car park that he thinks is a frozen lake - for when the event inevitably comes to Coleraine. apart from that he is celebrating passing his exam in teaching English as a Foreign Language... the examiner said that Owen's English was foreign to him. :)

    Stop lads - Im pissing myself here:D:D:D:D


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    #868
    lucernarian
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    Edit:
    JanuarySnowstor wrote: »
    Major backtrack from the gfs and ukmo after wed
    Cold continues with the scandi high getting stronger again.
    Looks like a marginal blip tues / wed if at all

    Of course before all this a nationwide snowstorm tomorrow, worst for the south
    Now that's an optimistic post for snow:)

    I'm curious to know, why are you certain at the lack of marginality for tomorrow?

    The following two charts indicate that there's only snow likely away from coastal areas/counties except on high ground.
    10011103_0912.gif
    10011106_0912.gif

    Note that I'm not making a prediction here. Just want to see some feedback about this.

    The track of much of the air of this system does seem to be coming from a cold and dry continent, so I can't figure out myself why the models are consistently putting dew points too high?

    I'd still not be caught in the Annamoe area with the forecast as it stands anyway;)

    Apologies, the top chart is from GFS (the higher res model I think) and the bottom is from the UK meso model.


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    #869
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,258 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    JanuarySnowstor wrote: »
    Cork is the south:D:D

    OH YEAH lol!:D


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    #870
    thetonynator
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    kleefarr wrote: »
    Kilkenny City outskirts...

    Reached a max of -1.0. Has dropped 1.0°C in the last half hour.
    My attempts all day of thawing the mains water have failed miserably.
    At least we have heat, open fire and central heating.
    Getting buckets of water from neighbours.

    Temperature: -2.3 °C
    Dew Point: -2.9 °C

    Thank God our waters all right. Thanks for all the temp updates:D

    Still have to fill buckets for the cattle and the boilers on the blink, but as long as i trip the switch back every 5 mins its all right:D


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    Chicken Run
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    kleefarr wrote: »
    Kilkenny City outskirts...

    Reached a max of -1.0. Has dropped 1.0°C in the last half hour.
    My attempts all day of thawing the mains water have failed miserably.
    At least we have heat, open fire and central heating.
    Getting buckets of water from neighbours.

    Temperature: -2.3 °C
    Dew Point: -2.9 °C

    snap !!!

    At least I have wine to drink - purely to conserve the water ;)
    Grey and rather ominous-looking clouds blowing into Clare from the East - Max temp today -0.8C but as sun's going down it's falling steadily.
    Slight flurry earlier but has given up now.

    Intrigued by WC's earlier posting about the 12Z GFS....


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