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snow ghost

WolfeIRE wrote: »

ain't heard my January monster since. Maybe he has bought a cottage in Westport.

There's something out there Wolfe... and it aint friendly!

A ghostly air has descended over this part of the country, like the breath of the grim reaper. :eek:

Pangea

RTE are absoultey useless ,not one word of the snow on their website, shocking.

atgate

So this is where I am for a couple of days...

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...in Monaghan. It's been snowing for 24 hours.

The place is supposed to be haunted and the wind is howling, the lights are flickering and cutting out.....

If it wasn't for those pesky kids.....

Finally, I'm in the right place at the right time.

Sierra Oscar

Wind seems to be dying down here, certainly not as strong as it was an hour ago.

Trogdor

Wet snow here now but winds are fairly light no nothing very blizzard-esque at the moment. 2.4C/1.1C

delw

the good stuff trying to cum down but still very wet

lucy2010

trogdor wrote: »

Wet snow here now but winds are fairly light no nothing very blizzard-esque at the moment. 2.4C/1.1C

Yeah, whats shes like down the harbour?

I can only see the NTL wire dancing around outside - doesnt look too bad out - few flakes every now & then - nothing to be writing home about

lucernarian

Yikes! Those photos are so big.

Meanwhile...

I'm in Louth, 150 metres above sea level and all I get is a blizzard of wet snow that's a bit sleety?!?! There's some snow sticking to poles, walls and car windows and tufts of snow on grass, but nothing building up on the ground. It's been like this for 2 hours:mad: From what I can tell, temperature here is 1 to 1.2 degrees with dewpoint of 0 to -0.5. I would have expected snow to settle in those conditions. It's higher than the forecasts for this time, even the NAE model at 7pm this evening predicted -1 dewpoints along the coast.

What happened to the forecasts for lying snow along the east coast? If the temperature isn't cold enough for snow here, I can see no chance of lying snow whatsoever for nearly everywhere within the M50 in Dublin or in most of Louth and Meath.

thecretinhop

the weather is exactly as it should be on this day that will go down in history, we are proper ****ed lads proper ****ed, this is only the start of the storm, by the way weather very rough in west etc

GTE

So far its a let down here in North Kildare/South Meath.

I wanna get some epic stormage!

Supercell

0.3/-0.4°C, snowing nicely. Starting to settle to, would have had 10cm by now in January

nacho libre

it's got very windy here again in the last half hour.

danni2

Snow has stopped now after nearly 8 hours of persistant snowfall, I measured the snow depth and I have a total accumulation of nearly 4 cm. Started snowing at roughly 5.00pm and began accumulating an hour later, the best part was towards evening were I had a full on blizzard. However the snow outside is slowly beginning to thaw now but has been a great day:)

Trogdor

lucy2010 wrote: »

Yeah, whats shes like down the harbour?

I can only see the NTL wire dancing around outside - doesnt look too bad out - few flakes every now & then - nothing to be writing home about

Not too bad at all really, got gusty for a while earlier but since then not much in the of wind..in fact it's nearly dead calm here now! 2.1C/0.8C

thecretinhop

sorry lads i really should keep to weather thats what i like about this forum it cheers me up in the middle of this tradegy, so on that note in last 20 minutes its got much worse in galway, howling winds now, im like DE on this if not snow, strong winds is something to behold:cool:

pauldry

Winds of 50knots here in Sligo have snapped the gate. No snow. Temps at 3.5c

btw does anyone know Jean Byrnes age. I reckon late 40s but my friend says late 30s.

lucy2010

trogdor wrote: »

Not too bad at all really, got gusty for a while earlier but since then not much in the of wind..in fact it's nearly dead calm here now! 2.1C/0.8C

Freakily calm TBH

Trogdor

lucy2010 wrote: »

Freakily calm TBH

Yeah it seems to lull down and then pick up again, bit breezier again now. Still snowing although horrible wet stuff

nacho libre

danni2 wrote: »

Snow has stopped now after nearly 8 hours of persistant snowfall, I measured the snow depth and I have a total accumulation of nearly 4 cm. Started snowing at roughly 5.00pm and began accumulating an hour later, the best part was towards evening were I had a full on blizzard. However the snow outside is slowly beginning to thaw now but has been a great day:)

nice one. reading such reports it's like being transported back to january:)
i'll probably be given out to by some for saying this, but it would be gas if we managed to get one more wintry event before next winter:D

lucernarian

nacho libre wrote: »

nice one. reading such reports it's like being transported back to january:)
i'll probably be given out to by some for saying this, but it would be gas if we managed to get one more wintry event before next winter:D

:rolleyes:

There's always one, hehe.

nacho libre

pauldry wrote: »

Winds of 50knots here in Sligo have snapped the gate. No snow. Temps at 3.5c

btw does anyone know Jean Byrnes age. I reckon late 40s but my friend says late 30s.

yes, i'd say she must be in her late forties based on that photo of her from 1981. she looks to have been around 19 or 20 in it.

delw

ah well looks like a wash out here but congrats to every1 dat got a good snow event 2day especially our neighbours down south,pics wud b good,looks like it b back to lurkn on forum again until next storm,hopefully its a thundery 1,wet stuff falling,wind nothing special

Sierra Oscar

Wind has picked up here again, and flights are flickering again!;)

Danno

Got over 1" cover at the height of the storm. A slow thaw is on. Radar seems to say that the show is over.

SubLuminal

Cabra Road, Dublin 7 here - Freezin'! Not literally but its very cold. Very windy indeed too, gusts trying hard to blow the house over. Lights flickering a lot, but no power outages. Frankly i'm praying for one because if the power dies so does my internet connection and I won't have to keep working for the rest of the night!

popebenny16

around 8 this evening rain turned to what i can only describe as falling driving ice. this stuck rapidly to windows. this built up steadily until replaced by proper snow, with very large flakes, in driving blizzard conditions untill around 11. from 1030 onwards the MMDS arial on the roof started going on the blink, at 1145 it stopped working compleatly, all due to snow on it.

large snowflakes replaced by sleet and then in turn with large snow. presently around two inches of snow appear to have fallen, more than that has stuck to the base of the window as i type. winds have died down, they were very strong earlier.

Sierra Oscar

Where are you located in North Tipp, popebenny16?

popebenny16

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Where are you located in North Tipp, popebenny16?

templemore/roscrea area.

just a few miles south is where a massive wind farm is being built near moyne as there is a unique funnel effect for the winds i guess that is why the snow has walloped the area so hard.

Supercell

0.2/-0.5°C, snowing, is a windy winter wonderland.
This is great!

danni2

nacho libre wrote: »

nice one. reading such reports it's like being transported back to january:)
i'll probably be given out to by some for saying this, but it would be gas if we managed to get one more wintry event before next winter:D

Cheers, Lol that would be gas alright, I'd say it is possible though:D so did you have much snow today nacho?