Weather warning / Road Condition thread 2010 / 2011

inode

Since it looks like the snow is on the way this weekend i thought it would be good to have this thread back this year for all road/weather warnings

Mint Sauce

A nice dusting of snow in letterkenny

Harps

Yep, roads and footpaths all frozen over as well so dangerous for anyone out there tonight

reiger

any idea what the weather is like round glenties heading over that way in the morning

homer simpson

reiger wrote: »

any idea what the weather is like round glenties heading over that way in the morning

According to a few fella's i was speaking to who are over there for the rally its freezing hard! a few hail showers, that are then freezing too, no snow yet, i think.

irish1967

Heading through the gap early a.m. Anyone who's through there early or drumkeen direction throw a post on here and let me know what it's like.

reiger

homer_simpson wrote: »

According to a few fella's i was speaking to who are over there for the rally its freezing hard! a few hail showers, that are then freezing too, no snow yet, i think.

cheers for that it ill be slippy around the stages in the morning so.

muffler

Its a white twin towns now. Nothing major, just a dusting of snow at lower levels but its freezing hard so that wont help. Main roads out of the towns have been treated.

homer simpson

Just heard from a friend Raphoe Convoy road is treacherous, I'm just in from the Kernans there now, my road isn't slippery at all just yet, good dusting of snow hail but its not slippery, still 2 degrees here too so fingers crossed it stays like this but i doubt it

reiger wrote: »

cheers for that it ill be slippy around the stages in the morning so.

I hear its snowing hard there now, they are trying to find a plow gritter to do a few runs of the stages in the morning, if your going leave in plenty of time

inode

just drove to lifford and back. Roads are fine, was down the back road to St.Johnson too, pretty slippy there lucky i got the snow tyres on

Durnish

any word on Meenaroy Hill, L'kenny to Finntown?

Harps

There was a lorry stuck there this morning, heard its supposed to be pretty bad but its probably been treated by this stage

irish1967

Just in letterkenny. Road thru gap ok. Scattered light snow showers. Now on to the capital. Then Derry. Phew

Beanstalk

Gonna try to pop into strabane later around 7 from letterkenny. if anyone is on the road before then lemee know what its like.

muffler

Beanstalk wrote: »

Gonna try to pop into strabane later around 7 from letterkenny. if anyone is on the road before then lemee know what its like.

The national primary roads should be fine barring a heavy shower around the time you would be traveling.

Harps

The major roads are all fine, I was out as far as the roundabout with the Derry road earlier and it was perfectly fine. As long as you dont leave it too late and give it a chance to freeze then you'll be fine

irish1967

Sitting here the the Beech Hill Hotel in Derry in front of a roaring fire with a pint.

P.S Roads were fine on the way up.

shiibata

irish1967 wrote: »

Sitting here the the Beech Hill Hotel in Derry in front of a roaring fire with a pint.

P.S Roads were fine on the way up.

Hope there not as much snow in Derry, the wee fellow is running in the All-Irelands tomorrow in Gransha, considering skis/skates for him instead of spikes:)

muffler

Snowing heavy in the twin towns area now.

Beanstalk

Yeah it was snowing heavy in letterkenny there too. It lay on the roads but hopefully will clear up.

Harps

Same in Letterkenny, heavy snow for an hour, roads are totally white and cars are struggling to go uphill

shiibata

Just heard on Highland, the road is impassable between Letterkenny and Ballybofey, well, were leaving work early here now and were gonna try it:D

PattheMetaller

Light dusting of snow in Ramelton. Cars managing fine on all the uphill exits from the town :cool:

Beanstalk

any news on the lifford road? think i'll have to give it a miss tonight.

muffler

Beanstalk wrote: »

any news on the lifford road? think i'll have to give it a miss tonight.

Just when I said "barring a heavy shower" it has to go and just do that.

No idea if that shower has went in the Ltterkenny - Lifford direction or not but we had about 2" here and worse again I was watching the rugby on Setanta and the bloody signal has gone completely

inode

just after driving from the Mountain top to the dry arch and back. Cars sliding off the road in all directions.

Just got back to the house now up the mountain top and the salters have been out and the main roads are very drive-able (with care).

Saabster

What are the roads like? Have to drive to Donegal town tomorrow - is the N15 ok?

homer simpson

Just in the door myself here,

Roads are now Very Very bad, N13 is very slippery, between Burt and newtown is seriously bad, just about got home from glenties, the rally that wasn't a rally (first car went half a mile into the stage then went off so the organizers decided to cancel it :rolleyes:) decided to go the ballybofey way home as opposed to brenagh and the road was Virtually unpassable, vans + jeeps towing rallycars home not able to make it up the hills before you come into Cloughan....

Long Story short Don't go out unless you need to :cool:

theblueirish

Strabane and Lifford is ok on the main roads but estates are bad, Lifford to Ballinlecky is ok so far but it wouldn't take much snow fall to make it bad.

fullstop

irish1967 wrote: »

Just in letterkenny. Road thru gap ok. Scattered light snow showers. Now on to the capital. Then Derry. Phew

irish1967 wrote: »

Sitting here the the Beech Hill Hotel in Derry in front of a roaring fire with a pint.

P.S Roads were fine on the way up.

You drove from Letterkenny to Dublin and then to Derry in 4.5 hours

Beanstalk

Dublin ain't the capital around here bud.

shiibata

Just back from Letterkenny and unbelievably there is 9 inches of snow here in Cloghan:eek:

homer simpson

shiibata wrote: »

Just back from Letterkenny and unbelievably there is 9 inches of snow here in Cloghan:eek:

Was through there earlier on on my way home from Glenties, its was serious bad, the roads had this mornings snow compacted into them! I don't envy you

danniemcq

Just after coming back from dublin roads around monaghan are wile bad but further north not that bad, if you travelling on bus add 2 hours to your journey planner. And if you driving pack some warm clothes in back and some food just in case you get stuck. It's lookin like that kinda night

Harps

shiibata wrote: »

Just back from Letterkenny and unbelievably there is 9 inches of snow here in Cloghan:eek:

9 inches?!

Pic?

Beanstalk

couldn't even get the car out of the driveway never mind to strabane. will stay in and drown my sorrows.

tatabubbly

Don't even try to pass the blue banks past illistrin outside letterkenny..... My car nearly went off the road so if ya don't have to go anywhere, don't!!!

homer simpson

Well i stopped just outside Cloghan and took a few snaps as i seen that there was a backlog of stuck cars jeeps up ahead i know i wasn't going anywhere, these were taken at about 5ish.... its not 9inches deep but it did start to snow heavily as we started moving again....

Click the photos to see larger....

muffler

Saabster wrote: »

What are the roads like? Have to drive to Donegal town tomorrow - is the N15 ok?

The main routes should be okay but keep the radio turned on and listen for weather and road reports and just beware of heavy showers.

Durnish

Well, the Belfast /Glenties trip went ahead. Safe return. I didn't go as I was ascairt. They left Glenties at 4 p.m. and seem to have escaped the snowfall, thru' Laghy to Pettigo. Worst bit was from Ballygawley to Lisburn.

Sorry about yr rally, Homer, although it doesn't surprise me. Friends' car slid/rotated down a hill into Portnoo last new year.

irish1967

Ok. Have to leave Derry at 1pm for Donegal Town. Which way. Via Lifford or via letterkenny ??

irish1967

Reading on aa roadwatch the gap is impassable. Anyone confirm???

muffler

According to the NRA weather station its -7.1 in Killygordon just now

muffler

For anyone who hasnt seen the NRA data before, they have several stations in Donegal which are indicated by the green dots on the map when you zoom in. Just click on the dots to get data.

Alternatively you can just view the data here

muffler

irish1967 wrote: »

Reading on aa roadwatch the gap is impassable. Anyone confirm???

Sorry, haven't heard anything but I do know that the gritters and snow ploughs are out

irish1967

Heavy snow in Derry now. Heading your way Muffler

Raintoday.co.uk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=096W6lsmuiY

Beanstalk

Snowing heavy in letterkenny now, that with the freezing temps doesn't bode well for the rest of the week!

P.s. @irish1967 Beech Hill is lovely. Went there for a function earlier in the year, hard to find but really nice house.

GoldenGreen

i find this site very very good for weather forcast

http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/index.asp

just type in your town eg letterkenny.

the best bit is the hourly prediction, it usually is right on the money

Harps

The site Irish1967 posted is the best I've come across for live updates, its always reliable for and accurate for snow down to the minute

Also, the weather is ridiculous in Letterkenny right now, absolutely bucketing down for the past 40 minutes and still going, never seen such heavy snow and the roads seem to be coming to a standstill again

Essexboy

muffler wrote: »

For anyone who hasnt seen the NRA data before, they have several stations in Donegal which are indicated by the green dots on the map when you zoom in. Just click on the dots to get data.

Alternatively you can just view the data here

This is good but I found an error for Donegal.
The map at http://www.nratraffic.ie/default.asp?mainmapzoom=yes&x=273&y=94&MapId=7146&RegionId=0&ZoomId= shows an image on the N15 (around Barnesmore Gap?) but the link is to a station on the M7 in Kildare!
I emailed the NRA to correct it.

Trish2007

Anyone have an update on Barnesmore Gap.