I want it gone

shadowcomplex

Im sick of the disruption the snow is causing, whats the forcast like for friday. any sign of a turn in the weather by then?

H2UMrsRobinson

shadowcomplex wrote: »

Im sick of the disruption the snow is causing, whats the forcast like for friday. any sign of a turn in the weather by then?

731 in weather forum and you are pretty much the only one - hence the only this post in thread...could get lonely in here!

gaz wac

Throws a snowball at OP !!

scopper

Well not totally alone. It is stopping me from submitting my PhD so it is a personal huge deal but then again it is the weather...so what can be done? I really wish we would learn how to deal with it though...I mean it happens each year so we should have this all sorted in a day or two. If it does not clear up on Friday it will cost me a huge sum of money

Miss Lockhart

Interesting name OP!

Do you come from the Isle of Man by any chance?

d'Oracle

scopper wrote: »

I really wish we would learn how to deal with it though...I mean it happens each year so we should have this all sorted in a day or two.

No it doesn't.
I feel your pain, but its literally happened twice in donkeys.

shadowcomplex

Well its not preventing me from going to work but it could prevent me from going home to cork from waterford at the weekend so thats my reason

snowstreams

d'Oracle wrote: »

No it doesn't.
I feel your pain, but its literally happened twice in donkeys.

3 years in a row now. And with low solar output in the last few years, it could happen alot more in future.

d'Oracle

snowstreams wrote: »

3 years in a row now. And with low solar output in the last few years, it could happen alot more in future.

3?
Did I miss a year?

Although I will say this, its taken at least a day longer for people to start blaming government organisations for the weather this year.

thetonynator

scopper wrote: »

Well not totally alone. It is stopping me from submitting my PhD so it is a personal huge deal but then again it is the weather...so what can be done? I really wish we would learn how to deal with it though...I mean it happens each year so we should have this all sorted in a day or two. If it does not clear up on Friday it will cost me a huge sum of money

:P:pac:

nacho libre

snowstreams wrote: »

And with low solar output in the last few years, it could happen alot more in future.

I certainly hope so.

ednwireland

shadowcomplex wrote: »

Im sick of the disruption the snow is causing, whats the forcast like for friday. any sign of a turn in the weather by then?

i'm with you OP - goes off to buy secondhand german snow tyres

snowstreams

d'Oracle wrote: »

3?
Did I miss a year?

Although I will say this, its taken at least a day longer for people to start blaming government organisations for the weather this year.

3 winter seasons recently in the east. Feb 2009, Jan 2010 & November 2010

I wouldnt be surprised if it happens every year for the next few years. Time to get winter tyres and lots of grit, we will be fine then. Lots of countries deal with it every year.

Graces7

with the OP on this.

Those who wish more snow maybe need to...

We are breaking our hearts here as a major fundraiser is now under threat because of the weather; and that will literally cost lives now.

We need to get to Cobh on Sunday and with our wee car on these roads..

Almost in tears here and surrounded with the work done over many weeks of late nights ready.

Snow is fine IF it does not destroy but some seem to live in a vacuum about it. Which is very sad for them of course.

Graces7

H2UMrsRobinson wrote: »

731 in weather forum and you are pretty much the only one - hence the only this post in thread...could get lonely in here!

Not so; just that we get fed up of being sniped at for saying this. Juvenile comments like "Throw a snowball" .. REALLY!

Many are saying the same as the mayhem goes on

d'Oracle

snowstreams wrote: »

3 winter seasons recently in the east. Feb 2009, Jan 2010 & November 2010

I wouldnt be surprised if it happens every year for the next few years. Time to get winter tyres and lots of grit, we will be fine then. Lots of countries deal with it every year.

Ah here, Feb 2009 was a day or two of snow.
The roads got a bit bad but it hardly counts like this and Jan 2010.

whysomoody

Anyone know when it's presumed to abate somewhat?

d'Oracle

whysomoody wrote: »

Anyone know when it's presumed to abate somewhat?

Weekend as far as I have seen.

Cavehill Red

I find the weather wonks fascinating.

The logical disconnect that allows people to clap their hands with glee at the prospect of temperatures plummetting to the point where people are being found dead of hypothermia is to me quite bizarre.

I can't wait for this spell of weather to end, and nor can any normal thinking person. Sometimes I think people's interest in things like the weather blinds them to the actual consequences of what they wish for.

d'Oracle

Cavehill Red wrote: »

I find the weather wonks fascinating.

The logical disconnect that allows people to clap their hands with glee at the prospect of temperatures plummetting to the point where people are being found dead of hypothermia is to me quite bizarre.

I can't wait for this spell of weather to end, and nor can any normal thinking person. Sometimes I think people's interest in things like the weather blinds them to the actual consequences of what they wish for.

I think you will find that a great many people here aren't "weather wonks" as you so disparagingly put it.

A lot of people are all right with this.

Aoife9

Cavehill Red wrote: »

I find the weather wonks fascinating.

The logical disconnect that allows people to clap their hands with glee at the prospect of temperatures plummetting to the point where people are being found dead of hypothermia is to me quite bizarre.

I can't wait for this spell of weather to end, and nor can any normal thinking person. Sometimes I think people's interest in things like the weather blinds them to the actual consequences of what they wish for.

Very well said!!

looksee

The fact of someone 'wanting' or 'not wanting' the weather to do whatever isn't actually going to make any difference to what the weather does, so why does it matter?

At the same time I'm getting a bit fed up with it myself. There is a kind of morbid fascination with looking out to see is it still snowing though:D

Calibos

Cavehill Red wrote: »

I find the weather wonks fascinating.

The logical disconnect that allows people to clap their hands with glee at the prospect of temperatures plummetting to the point where people are being found dead of hypothermia is to me quite bizarre.

I can't wait for this spell of weather to end, and nor can any normal thinking person. Sometimes I think people's interest in things like the weather blinds them to the actual consequences of what they wish for.

I suppose I shouldn't relish the prospect of a heatwave because some people will get sunstroke or Skin Melanoma, hey maybe I shouldn't relish the prospect of a cooling breeze on that Summers day either because someone is going to get an asthma attack brought on by the spike in the pollen count and their hay fever..... or I shouldn't relish the prospect of a beautiful breezy Autumn day because someone might be hit by a falling branch....or I shouldn't look up in wonder and awe at a lighning storm because someone might have been hit by the lightning......

Think about what you are saying.

Cavehill Red

Calibos wrote: »

I suppose I shouldn't relish the prospect of a heatwave because some people will get sunstroke or Skin Melanoma, hey maybe I shouldn't relish the prospect of a cooling breeze on that Summers day either because someone is going to get an asthma attack brought on by the spike in the pollen count and their hay fever..... or I shouldn't relish the prospect of a beautiful breezy Autumn day because someone might be hit by a falling branch....or I shouldn't look up in wonder and awe at a lighning storm because someone might have been hit by the lightning......

Think about what you are saying.

Yes, that's exactly the sort of logical disconnect I was talking about - one that equates the unlikely prospect of someone being hit by a branch on an Autumn day with temperatures that are killing people by hypothermia, closing schools and workplaces, and making roads impassable and dangerous.

snowstreams

d'Oracle wrote: »

Ah here, Feb 2009 was a day or two of snow.
The roads got a bit bad but it hardly counts like this and Jan 2010.

Thats true that it didnt last too long at low altitude. The reason i remember it was because the snow stayed in the wicklow mountains for 3 weeks after it which was unusual at the time.

Cavehill Red

looksee wrote: »

The fact of someone 'wanting' or 'not wanting' the weather to do whatever isn't actually going to make any difference to what the weather does, so why does it matter?

I'm highlighting their inhuman disregard for human suffering and death, which they ignore because OMG!!! The isobar chart is off the wall!!!

rhonin

Cavehill Red wrote: »

I find the weather wonks fascinating.

The logical disconnect that allows people to clap their hands with glee at the prospect of temperatures plummetting to the point where people are being found dead of hypothermia is to me quite bizarre.

I can't wait for this spell of weather to end, and nor can any normal thinking person. Sometimes I think people's interest in things like the weather blinds them to the actual consequences of what they wish for.

People in this forum have an interest in weather. Nobody here wants anybody to get hurt or die in this weather.
I hope "normal thinking people" understand that.

d'Oracle

snowstreams wrote: »

Thats true that it didnt last too long at low altitude. The reason i remember it was because the snow stayed in the wicklow mountains for 3 weeks after it which was unusual at the time.

I could see it from my old office....:)

Ilyushin76

7c for the weekend.Can't wait

Sideshow Mark

Cavehill Red wrote: »

I'm highlighting their inhuman disregard for human suffering and death, which they ignore because OMG!!! The isobar chart is off the wall!!!

I really hope you're not serious.

Cavehill Red

Sideshow Mark wrote: »

I really hope you're not serious.

Why wouldn't I be serious? Just look at the post before yours for proof of what I'm saying.

KindOfIrish

shadowcomplex wrote: »

Im sick of the disruption the snow is causing, whats the forcast like for friday. any sign of a turn in the weather by then?

forecast: -12. It's Global warming, they say:D

Calibos

InHuman b@stard that Dean Martin!! and as for that maniac Bing Crosby with his dreaming of a White Christmas!! :rolleyes:

Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

It doesn't show signs of stopping
And I've bought some corn for popping
The lights are turned way down low
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

When we finally kissgoodnight
How I'll hate going out in the storm!
But if you'll really hold me tight
All the way home I'll be warm

The fire is slowly dying
And, my dear, we're still goodbying
But as long as you love me so
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

By your rationale, every time I buy a pair of socks I should spare a thought for the 100's of people who die in the UK and a few in Ireland too every single year while putting on their socks in the morning and tripping and dying from head injuries

Sideshow Mark

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Why wouldn't I be serious? Just look at the post before yours for proof of what I'm saying.

Show me the post where someone says they are happy that people are dying. In fact show me evidence that people are dying as a direct result of the weather over the past few days. You are trolling, and it's not funny

ArcadeFred

d'Oracle wrote: »

Ah here, Feb 2009 was a day or two of snow.
The roads got a bit bad but it hardly counts like this and Jan 2010.

:eek:Tell that to the people, like myself, who were stuck on buses on the N4 for four hours the day the roads got a bit bad!

Feb 2009 shall stay with me as long as I shall live!

Cavehill Red

Sideshow Mark wrote: »

Show me the post where someone says they are happy that people are dying. In fact show me evidence that people are dying as a direct result of the weather over the past few days. You are trolling, and it's not funny

Reported for personal abuse.

Anyone saying they 'can't wait' to see temperatures of -12, such as we've seen on this very thread, does so knowing that such temperatures invariably lead to loss of life.

Calibos

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Reported for personal abuse.

Anyone saying they 'can't wait' to see temperatures of -12, such as we've seen on this very thread, does so knowing that such temperatures invariably lead to loss of life.

Reported for personal abuse!!?? Where did he abuse you??

:rolleyes::rolleyes:

DWCommuter

ArcadeFred wrote: »

:eek:Tell that to the people, like myself, who were stuck on buses on the N4 for four hours the day the roads got a bit bad!

Feb 2009 shall stay with me as long as I shall live!

And the 4 hour trip from Citywest to Naas on the N7 because it hadn't been treated and caused a lorry to jacknife at Rathcoole.

Im with the OP. I want it gone because despite the spin from Government they arent prepared and never will be. This weather causes untold suffering to commuters, businesses and people at risk. And I don't think Cavehill Red is trolling because I too find it somewhat alarming how some people wish weather armageddon on the country.

tbh

lads, cop on and grow up ffs.

Some of you love the snowy weather because it's a break from the norm.
Some of you hate the snowy weather because it's a break from the norm.

Both points of view are perfectly acceptable, will ye please stop throwing hissy fits just because someone else doesn't feel the same way you do.

El Horseboxo

I do find it very strange and frankly a bit weird that people sit up till 4 and 5 in the morning while they have work or college etc the next day staring at 15 minute updates on met.ie or raintoday. And some of these people are grown ass men (and women). I lived in tornado alley for a while and then lived close to Canada. And while i do love to see a good storm or snowfall i would never be sitting up refreshing a forum or site to see what has happened in the last few minutes. Whatever about liking it when it happens but some people have hopped over the border seperating interest and obsession.

thetonynator

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Reported for personal abuse.

Anyone saying they 'can't wait' to see temperatures of -12, such as we've seen on this very thread, does so knowing that such temperatures invariably lead to loss of life.

Don't abuse the report post fuction, it reduces the liklihhood of actual personal abuse from being noticed. That was clearly not personal abuse.

tbh

thetonynator wrote: »

Don't abuse the report post fuction, it reduces the liklihhood of actual personal abuse from being noticed. That was clearly not personal abuse.

Lets leave that to the mods to decide, tony, thanks. And with that, the sideshow is over - would be great if people could stick to the topic from here on out.

Treehere

El Horseboxo wrote: »

I do find it very strange and frankly a bit weird that people sit up till 4 and 5 in the morning while they have work or college etc the next day staring at 15 minute updates on met.ie or raintoday. And some of these people are grown ass men (and women). I lived in tornado alley for a while and then lived close to Canada. And while i do love to see a good storm or snowfall i would never be sitting up refreshing a forum or site to see what has happened in the last few minutes. Whatever about liking it when it happens but some people have hopped over the border seperating interest and obsession.

Because it's interesting I guess. For everyone who is around the 20 year age like me, snow is really exciting. We got a period of no snow for like, 10 years and then suddenly this. I love it personally. For me, it's the change of pace. I hate things staying the same. Especially when you live in a country where the forecast for most of the year round is overcast grey, probably a sprinkling of rain.

If you have an issue with it however, don't sit here and whine about it. Get out, help any of the elderly that need helping. Clear your pathways.

gothwalk

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Reported for personal abuse.

There was no personal abuse in that post. You are, in fact, trolling. You're on a weather forum, slating people for talking about the weather.

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Anyone saying they 'can't wait' to see temperatures of -12, such as we've seen on this very thread, does so knowing that such temperatures invariably lead to loss of life.

By any ethical standards whatsoever, right down to something as simple as "Do no harm", these statements are perfectly fine. They have no effect. No amount of wanting to see -12C will cause it. Equally, no number of posts saying "I hope it doesn't get to -12 because..." will prevent it.

Further, I think you'll find that you're annoying people with these posts of yours - you're certainly annoying me - while doing no good, and therefore, in your own little way, doing more harm than not.

So please, quit with that nonsense.

Sir Oxman

looksee wrote: »

The fact of someone 'wanting' or 'not wanting' the weather to do whatever isn't actually going to make any difference to what the weather does, so why does it matter?

At the same time I'm getting a bit fed up with it myself. There is a kind of morbid fascination with looking out to see is it still snowing though:D

^^This!

d'Oracle

ArcadeFred wrote: »

:eek:Tell that to the people, like myself, who were stuck on buses on the N4 for four hours the day the roads got a bit bad!

Feb 2009 shall stay with me as long as I shall live!

Ok so.
I just told that to myself.
My response was to tell myself that I knew that.

On the ONE DAY the roads got a bit bad. However, getting back to the context in which I was talking about, it was nothing even close to this or Jan 2010. Not even the same ballpark.

Cavehill Red

gothwalk wrote: »

There was no personal abuse in that post. You are, in fact, trolling. You're on a weather forum, slating people for talking about the weather.

Calling someone a troll because you disagree with them is personal abuse. You're guilty of it too.
I'm not slating anyone for talking about the weather. Here I am, talking about it too. I'm expressing concern over the rationality of people who WELCOME such weather as we are currently having, and who express joy about it, given that it comes with a guaranteed death toll attached.

gothwalk wrote: »

By any ethical standards whatsoever, right down to something as simple as "Do no harm", these statements are perfectly fine. They have no effect. No amount of wanting to see -12C will cause it. Equally, no number of posts saying "I hope it doesn't get to -12 because..." will prevent it.

I'm not suggesting they're causing the weather! :eek:
I'm suggesting they're behaving in an inhuman fashion when they express such glee at it arriving.

gothwalk wrote: »

Further, I think you'll find that you're annoying people with these posts of yours - you're certainly annoying me - while doing no good, and therefore, in your own little way, doing more harm than not.

Well boo-hoo. I can tell you that people expressing delight at the arrival of weather which is causing death and misery is annoying me too.

gothwalk wrote: »

So please, quit with that nonsense.

Likewise, I'm sure.

Queen-Mise

I will admit, I am utterly split on this. I love the snow but I want it gone too

El Horseboxo

Treehere wrote: »

If you have an issue with it however, don't sit here and whine about it. Get out, help any of the elderly that need helping. Clear your pathways.

Could say the same thing about people on here all day (and night) who don't have an issue with it. Don't just sit there and post about it. Get out, help any of the elderly that need helping. Clear your pathways.

Besides i'm not in Ireland but having grown up with natural disasters i'm well aware of a sense of community when it comes to adverse weather. I get why people like snow or storms. But what i don't get is the obsession from not just one or two random people. But a huge group. If it's an event that's going to happen. Surely refreshing forums and charts ain't gonna make a difference.

Yakult

I'd prefere it to snow non stop rather than snowing a few inches like it has and then just freezing ontop of it making it a giant Ice rink.

looksee

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Calling someone a troll because you disagree with them is personal abuse. You're guilty of it too.
I'm not slating anyone for talking about the weather. Here I am, talking about it too. I'm expressing concern over the rationality of people who WELCOME such weather as we are currently having, and who express joy about it, given that it comes with a guaranteed death toll attached.



I'm not suggesting they're causing the weather! :eek:
I'm suggesting they're behaving in an inhuman fashion when they express such glee at it arriving.



Well boo-hoo. I can tell you that people expressing delight at the arrival of weather which is causing death and misery is annoying me too.



Likewise, I'm sure.

Oh, for heavens sake! I actually have a bit of sympathy for your point of view, but if you want to be outraged about something go and be outraged about people playing kill-em games or making brainless comments on AH.

You don't have to be on this thread looking for offence. I happen to agree that there is something a bit weird about people bemoning the fact that there isn't enough snow in any particular place, but much of it is tongue in cheek and is a bit of harmless enjoyment over an unusual weather situation.

They are not saying anything that indicates they wish harm to anyone. You might as well say that if people hope that the summer is long and hot (some hope) they are wishing sunburn on people.

I will be glad to see the back of it, but if I am offended by this thread I don't have to read it.