National: Severe Cold/ Snow Discussion (Thanks to all!)

leahyl

zerks wrote: »

The rules are that the snow in Cork will melt after 10 minutes.:D

Is there any 'thumbs down' for this post?:D

Cú Giobach

leahyl wrote: »

Is there any 'thumbs down' for this post?:D

munsterlegend

leahyl wrote: »

Is there any 'thumbs down' for this post?:D

its looking promising leahyl! doubt we will get much until friday night to saturday but its at least possible!

wicklowdub

UK Met office radar at midnight on Friday in to the early hours of Saturday is monsterous but not much for 48 hours after that:

Midnight Friday


Noon Saturday


Midnight Saturday

Cú Giobach

munsterlegend wrote: »

its looking promising leahyl! doubt we will get much until friday night to saturday but its at least possible!

Anyone know any good songs while we're waiting??

irish1967

A lovely morning here !!




I will take a pic from the same spot each hour so we can see the difference

MGMTea

Is this period like 'the calm before the storm' i'm expecting blizzard and artic conditions the way everyone is going on

Min

Deleted User wrote: »

Lol that chap from the dept of geography in nui Galway just finished on radio one knows nothing of weather..he says this is ending on wenesday and we are in a 3 yr cycle and back to global warming next winter :rolleyes:

Are they going out of their way to make us calm?

Some people are in for a bit of a shock/pleasant surprise depending on your point of view...
I was in tesco in arklow this morning and heard 2 people saying .."ah shur thats only in the north and west.."

Initially yes but they are typical of the national mis information coming out of the airwaves at the moment.

I heard that, couldn't believe his analysis of the weather or climate, he mentioned sunspot actvity had not recovered to levels that scientists predicted they would be but it would all be ok in the end was his view, mustn't have studied the mini ice age and Maunder minimum and as for global warming - more wishy washy stuff, I wonder how he would explain the 400 year period give or take a number of years that was the medieval warm period.

I have to say I am quite concerned about the upcoming weather and RTE with their analysts are not helping the matter.

dak

Cú Giobach wrote: »

Anyone know any good songs while we're waiting??

Dean Martin.......Let it snow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.goldenplec.com/2010/12/03/goldenplecs-top-songs-snow/

Min

Min wrote: »

I heard that, couldn't believe his analysis of the weather or climate, he mentioned sunspot actvity had not recovered to levels that scientists predicted they would be but it would all be ok in the end was his view, mustn't have studied the mini ice age and Maunder minimum and as for global warming - more wishy washy stuff, I wonder how he would explain the 400 year period give or take a number of years that was the medieval warm period.

I have to say I am quite concerned about the upcoming weather and RTE with their analysts are not helping the matter.

As Mt said in his forecast,theres very little cross model agreement(mainly due to the unusual type of blocking we have to the atlantic weather) and theres changes on every run so a forecasters job is not easy.
Why ME don't use risk percentages and phrases like maybe but we are not sure,we'll keep you updated etc is beyond me.

dave1982

:eek::eek::eek::eek:http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

munsterlegend

dave1982 wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek:http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

and the amazement is due to...?!

munsterlegend

munsterlegend wrote: »

and the amazement is due to...?!

The lack of precip over Ireland compared to GB...

ednwireland

+1 munsterlegend

dave1982 wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek:http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

yep it rained pretty hard last night whats your point ?

dave1982

munsterlegend wrote: »

and the amazement is due to...?!

Is that not snow over England?

largepants

Does that mean its going to miss us altogether now? I get the feeling things are too quiet here.

irish1967

Elmer Blooker

Deleted User wrote: »

Lol that chap from the dept of geography in nui Galway just finished on radio one knows nothing of weather..he says this is ending on wenesday and we are in a 3 yr cycle and back to global warming next winter :rolleyes:

Are they going out of their way to make us calm?

Some people are in for a bit of a shock/pleasant surprise depending on your point of view...
I was in tesco in arklow this morning and heard 2 people saying .."ah shur thats only in the north and west.."

Initially yes but they are typical of the national mis information coming out of the airwaves at the moment.

I heard yer man too, I thought he was totally out of order telling everyone that it will all be over by mid week. Everything is still very uncertain at the moment.

MayoForSam

dave1982 wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek:http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

But that band of precipitation over mainland UK is rain/sleet, yes?

It's only later on when this passes through that we start getting the cold stuff from the NW.

leahyl

largepants wrote: »

Does that mean its going to miss us altogether now? I get the feeling things are too quiet here.

Yes me too - i feel like there's gonna be a big downgrade and the experts are afraid to face our wrath!:D

smashey

leahyl wrote: »

Is there any 'thumbs down' for this post?:D

Knock yourself out

dave1982

MayoForSam wrote: »

But that band of precipitation over mainland UK is rain/sleet, yes?

It's only later on when this passes through that we start getting the cold stuff from the NW.

Thanks for that thought it was snow,just checked Dublin live cams looks like rain there as well.



http://www.nci.ie/ispy/cam1.yp

irish1967

I know its only an iphone app.. but the temp here according to my phone has dropped from 6.3 to 2.9 in less than an hour !!:eek:

John2009

dave1982

dave1982 wrote: »

Is that not snow over England?

its snow now as far south as newcastle and north yorkshire.
South of that it is rain

largepants

leahyl wrote: »

Yes me too - i feel like there's gonna be a big downgrade and the experts are afraid to face our wrath!:D

You gonna turn green?I got that empty felling in my stomach when I saw that raintoday website. Thank jeez for that.

moogester

Temp rose to a high of 8.1 here last night.

Now down to 4.8 & dropping 0.9/hour -- dew point 0.6, wubd chill 1.1

So far so good......bring it on!!

Big Nasty

Light rain in Dublin at the moment!

ninebeanrows

6z GFS has virtually done away with the low over Ireland and has thrown the feature very underdeveloped, well to our south.:eek:

ninebeanrows

The thing has gone so far south that it is heading into France.

We won't be the only ones on edge with this, our England friends will be equally shocked.