Abiding memories of 2nd cold spell 2010/11 winter

darkman2

For me Malahide estuary frozen over and with snow on top (like now).Amazing to look at.


What will be your kept image of this cold snap?

Dean.Tamkin

Banging my girlfriends best friend doggy style on the pic nic table at the back of her house:eek:

rob180

I think the OP meant weather related image and i hope ur g/f don't see ur post as well

derekon

Dean.Tamkin wrote: »

Banging my girlfriends best friend doggy style on the pic nic table at the back of her house:eek:

Hey man, I am only out of bed but you have really cheered me up with that! Very funny.........

Some of my abiding memories include the Dublin city canals frozen over, nearly a foot of snow outside my door, Dublin bus numbers illegible due to the ice, seeing icicles hang off traffic lights, temperatures of -10oc becoming the "norm"......so many memories, what an amazing winter to date........:)

irish1967

The army clearing the paths in the town centre. The snow showers arriving like clockwork every 30 mins on Friday 17th Dec. Neighbours working together to clear and grit the hill to our houses. My White cat becoming a ninja cat (his new ninja name Yung Wan) and the funny was he walked when the snow got deeper than his legs.

up for anything

Sending my dirty kids to school in dirty clothes because the washing machine has been frozen for so long and it was far too cold to venture into the bathroom for a shower. I'll be saving up for a tin bath to put in front of the open fire for the Winter of '11/'12.

gbee

up for anything wrote: »

I'll be saving up for a tin bath to put in front of the open fire for the Winter of '11/'12.

Many's a bath like that I had as a boy. Two problems, when anyone opened the door a blast of freeeeezzzzzzing air struck me like daggers.

When the fire was stoked my skin burnt.

Worse was when both happened at the same time!!!!

There is an art to the procedure and there is nothing like an open fire. I've been lighting my own fire recently, central heating is working but it's just not the same at all.

Calibos

Realising that Bray is in the Snow Shadow of a geographical feature from almost every compass point

Sparks

Thus far, finding icicles on my car at lunchtime in the car park.

However, I'm now about to drive from dublin to lucan to kilkenny. I suspect I may have a different answer by tonight...

Birdnuts

Blessington Lakes being not just 99% frozen solid, but also snow covered - an amazing sight!!

mike65

An almost total lack of snow.

thetonynator

Watching image after image on the radar of streamers going north and south of me, and a paltry 0.5cm of snow staying on the ground for over a week already!

homolumo

mike65 wrote: »

An almost total lack of snow.

this and no water.

mike65

Indeed, I'm on day 3 without water.

mickger844posts

mike65 wrote: »

An almost total lack of snow.

Same for me

rainbow kirby

Jumping out of a taxi last night into about 10 inches of snow - with it still pounding down, seeing all the ponds in Tymon Park basically frozen solid for weeks.

Sierra Oscar

Clearing the A&E depots again and again in St. James's & Vincents with the Civil Defence . . . only to have snow start falling again shortly afterwards.

BEASTERLY

The mayhem in wexford town on tuesday, panic must of set in because it seemed like every car in the county was in there hopping off each other and getting stuck on hills, great fun to watch. Never ever seen traffic like it.

pebbles21

Turning on the TV/Radio and the recession not mentioned

Iancar29

...THE SNOW
Coming home from work this morning from a nite shift, My brother's car frozen , breaking ice while opening the car door, scraping ice of the window, FROM THE INSIDE.

Coming home through the snow, ( almost a foot of it ).
Seeing everything so white.

Being down the local park yesterday morning witnessing the first heavy snowfall come in and the visibility go down really quickly.

...
Ther being lying snow for christmas day

Takca

darkman2 wrote: »

What will be your kept image of this cold snap?

This one, from the weather station in my garden, a full week subzero :eek:



note : The F in the image should be a C

TheMilkyPirate

The heavy snow that fell in wexford town tuesday mornin, 3 inches i measured after 40 minutes was cool.

Best memory from the last cold spell was walking around the golf course with a few mates in a foot and a half of snow and seeing all the ponds and lakes frozen over.....in NOVEMBER! lol

nacho libre

while we got meagre amounts compared to the east, just getting the most snow i've ever seen in my life and waking up to an alpine scene for 8 days in a row.

B0X

Watching this yoke grow outside. Only one more foot until it's the size of the window!

Harps

Well, having the heaviest snow I've ever seen is obviously a memory, 11 inches in my garden last Friday.

The fact that not one flake has melted even off the trees or power cables a full week later.

Coming close to beating the record low temperature every night this week not far from here.

The fact that the entire length of my house is covered in metre long icicles.



All in all its been an epic week that I'll probably not see the likes of again in this country any time soon

Stinicker

Harps wrote: »

All in all its been an epic week that I'll probably not see the likes of again in this country any time soon

I can assure you that what we are seeing now is the only the precursor for many cold winters ahead of us. We will get colder winters and warmer summers.

Scubadevils

For me definitely breaking the cycle of a snowless Lusk like previous winters - I really thought this area was destined to always miss out on decent snow, last winter I read so many posts here about the vast amounts of snow and saw the disruption etc on TV - there was feck all here, a mere dusting as has been the case for the 6 years or so living here. To see repeated heavy snow falling and the depth increasing every day this time was just amazing.

It really reminds me of being a kid, love the cold crisp air and the sparkle from the snow on the ground - last night the moonlight on the snow was amazing, as was the sun today given that there was pretty much no thaw... loved seeing -2.5 on the car today at 12.39pm! Car could do with a dusting actually :pac:



I know its a pain in the ass, disruptive, costly etc but I can't escape the fact that I'm obsessed with this weather!

Sparks

Sparks wrote: »

However, I'm now about to drive from dublin to lucan to kilkenny. I suspect I may have a different answer by tonight...

Yup, I do
-10 in the car going past Naas, watching a bread delivery truck powerdrift sideways around a roundabout in a foot of snow, and of course, some utter gob****e in a Merc S-Class nearly kill someone then dive across two lanes of traffic and hold up a third lane so that he could wind down his window and scream at the person he'd nearly killed about how inconsiderate a victim he was...

Snowman10

My horse freezing to death outside after selling my honda civic for it

patwicklow

mine was seeing two red kites feeding of a dead crow. i was going mad i didnt have a camara was a great site to see them so up close.

thetonynator

My abiding memory now is trying to go canoeing on christmas morning only to discover the nore had frozen from bank to bank . . .

Corruptedmorals

The bus I had been on for 3 hours sliding down the sliproad from Chaelizod to the n4 at palmerstown (bottom of kylemore road) before finally making it to the middle and seeing 2 other busses slide right into the kerb and eject everyone, numerous cars franticxally trying to get out of the way. LOADS of people getting off 4/5 busses walking up to the n4, (nothing had moved up at the top in hours)loads of other people pushing cars, all of which were stuck at some point, and others jumpstarting others. One car trying to skip the unmoving queue further up to get onto the n4, effectively plowing into deep snow...black smoke everywhere. The long walk back to a relative's house, passing about 10 other busses and loads of cars waiting to turn onto the same hill...

PauloMN

My abiding memory of this snow was that for the first time since the Internet was invented, I never once saw the question so typical in Ireland when it snows:
"Is it sticking?"

Min

Frozen pipes, frozen hands, frozen landscape, hands when wet sticking to frozen surfaces, I will remember that I was just frozen by the experience.
Thank God the Ice Queen of Narnia has died for now.

lawhec

As I was probably in the coldest area of Ireland (stretching from East Donegal into West Tyrone to Fermanagh and into parts of Cavan) during the spell which lasted just over a week from the 18th to 25th inclusive...

* Measuring 231mm of snow in the back garden on Saturday (18th) going up to 290mm on Sunday morning.

* Having my bedroom window open on that same morning not realising that it was -12C at the time! :cool:

* Later confirmation that a record low "maximum" temperature for NI was set at -11C at Castlederg, that evening I was speaking to my grandfather who lives in the Sperrins say that he had never seen a daytime so cold.

* My jaw hitting the floor when Castlederg hit -17.7C (later confirmed at -18.0) late on Sunday night on the UK Met Office website.

* Going out for a few walks locally in the day having absolutely no excuse for not wrapping up well (gloves, warm coat, woolly hat etc.), just a pity the photos I was taking were spoiled by freezing fog.

* Cozying up beside a warm fire in the living room, then if I had to go outside it was like going from sitting in a warm office, opening the door and going straight into a deep freeze container unit. :eek:

* Doing my final bit of Christmas shopping in Omagh on Thursday morning and lunchtime, when Castlederg broke the record low temp again (-18.7C) at sunrise :eek:, surreal doing the shopping in temperatures of around -15C and despite the temperatures and state of many roads up here, the town was buzzing. Also the Strule river in Omagh was frozen solid in many parts.

* Walking about home on Christmas day, knowing that a thaw was about to come and make the most of the conditions.

Twice last winter we had spells where minimum temperatures went below -10C for several nights. This winter again it's already happened twice (late November/early December, and last week) and I won't be surprised if there's a third or fourth.

In saying all this, I have never seen so many people around here glad to see the heavy rain and temperatures between 5-10C in December like it is now, it's normally a winter curse for us! Personally I'm thankful enough the big freeze is over for now, as our houses, buildings and general infrastructure are not designed for that weather especially over such a prolonged period. As I type, about 99.9% of the snow has now gone.

plein de force

falling about 3 times in the one day on the slippery snow

and one day when i left the house it was fairly bright, then within a minute i could hardly see in front of myself because the snow was so heavy

SeaFields

Not a memory but something i missed and hope to see a photo of....The skellig rocks in Kerry were covered in snow last week. A friend is originally from The Glen which looks out on them. A first in living memory by all accounts.

fizzycyst

Waking up on Saturday 27th November to what I can only describe as a winter wonderland in Waterford city. Totally unexpected on my part which made it all the more wonderful.
After that, I expected snow but it never came :cool:

Edit: wrong date

Senna

The river Finn in Donegal, pictures taken from the Donegal forum.

Speak Now

fizzycyst wrote: »

Waking up on Saturday 11th November to what I can only describe as a winter wonderland in Waterford city. Totally unexpected on my part which made it all the more wonderful.
After that, I expected snow but it never came :cool:

First snowfall in Waterford was November 27th.

ellieh1

Taking my daughter to school one morning and it was -7C at 9am. :eek:

Having 5 different pipes freeze in my house and yet only having a 10 min flurry of snow for the length of the whole of Winter 2010-2011 so far, we must hold the record for the least amount of snowfall!!

dirtyghettokid

so many memories...
- the IOM effecting streamers - making it snow in the city but not north county where i live so driving to santry and getting stuck in traffic just so i could see some snow lol
- feeding the starving birds
- that really heavy frost... it was so beautiful!
- the igloo that i built that collapsed the other day hahaha
it's been a great winter! could have done without the water shortages though :mad:

Gazzumped

Watching a cheeky little mouse compete with the birds for the seeds and nuts we left out in the garden. He hid in a tree trunk and scooted in and out daringly for his free lunch - top class entertainment

123balltv

After walking home from work got home took off my
trousers looked down and my legs were pure red took me ages getting home in the deep Tallaght snow.
Feeding the birds made me feel good they we're starving.

Worst memory ICE had a bad fall so glad the ice is gone horrible I can actually walk like a normal person instead of hanging onto fences slipping
and sliding everywhere
I'm watching Britains big freeze more4 its bring back memories

Pangea

If anyones interested there are programmes on right now on More 4 about Britains snow, if you go to More 4 +1 you can see the first programme.

bogman

Watching it here also

"Digging up the spuds with a kango hammer during the winter of 1963"

Calibos

Just finished watching that. Covered the Feb '09 UK event and the Jan '10 event. I laughed when the presenter said, "Who knows what next winter will bring". If only he knew

Pangea

lol yeah, they original programme of that was actually made after February 09s event, they then changed a few things and updated it to cover both Ferbruary and January 10 events.

On a seperate note If someone was to ask me which Cold spell was the worst I would have to think for a while , Last years duration of unbroken cold weather was astonishing, just short of a month but with no major snowfall , just 2 or 3 inches here collectively.
November freeze lasted over two weeks and then Mid Decembers one lasted for roughly 10 days but had the coldest temperatures of all the cold spells and had the most snow (for my location) but was the shortest of all.
Its a tough one. Perhaps to say the Novemeber/December freeze together was worse than last year may be the best way to describe it albeit with a thaw inbetween. Although last year I did see the harbour in my area freeze over and didnt quite see it freeze over this winter, just bits of ice starting but then the thaw came.

Noffles

Realising how much I hate the snow, Ireland does not have the infrastructure, the services, the houses (how they are built) or the money to deal with it when it hits hard and in particular the rural areas (which is most of Ireland) really get ****ed...

Can not for the life of me understand how people are glad to see it???

gbee

Noffles wrote: »

Can not for the life of me understand how people are glad to see it???

We've a big thread on that subject find it and read it.

thetonynator

Pangea wrote: »

lol yeah, they original programme of that was actually made after February 09s event, they then changed a few things and updated it to cover both Ferbruary and January 10 events.

On a seperate note If someone was to ask me which Cold spell was the worst I would have to think for a while , Last years duration of unbroken cold weather was astonishing, just short of a month but with no major snowfall , just 2 or 3 inches here collectively.
November freeze lasted over two weeks and then Mid Decembers one lasted for roughly 10 days but had the coldest temperatures of all the cold spells and had the most snow (for my location) but was the shortest of all.
Its a tough one. Perhaps to say the Novemeber/December freeze together was worse than last year may be the best way to describe it albeit with a thaw inbetween. Although last year I did see the harbour in my area freeze over and didnt quite see it freeze over this winter, just bits of ice starting but then the thaw came.

For my area i would have to say the november/ december (freeze mark I :P) was by far the best. It was long, loads of snow here, and very cold temps( the coldest of all 3 cold spells here . . ).