White Christmas/Roads with snow thread 2011

Deer Hunter DL

ok i have been putting this thread up since 2009 around this time of year for a bit of fun , last year i posted it up and i said i didn't think we would get a white christmas boy was i wrong , well i really don't think we will get one this year but ya never know , so what do the rest of yous think will we have a white one ??

heres the 2010 thread
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=69056785

heres the 2009 thread
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=63029933

muffler

I dont think we would be fortunate/unfortunate (depends on your outlook) enough to make it a hat trick of consecutive white Xmases

homer simpson

muffler wrote: »

I dont think we would be fortunate/unfortunate (depends on your outlook) enough to make it a hat trick of consecutive white Xmases

Lazy git, thats one of my pet hates, someone saying x-mas indtead of typing the extra 5 letters and saying Christmas :P

Can't see it being a white Christmas myself either but ya just never know. After last year I think its best to always expect the bad weather!

muffler

Paddy Power is giving odds of 7/2 for both Dublin and Belfast.

Maybe they know something we dont

paulmclaughlin

AHHHHHHHH...

ednwireland

no thanks, dont want weeks of drive clearing, sliding around and frozen pipes

alchemist33

Time to load up the boot -- spade, blanket, Lucozade, Mars bar, torch, wellies, spare set of clothes. Every winter I do this, I don't get stuck in Newtowncunningham and have to walk to Letterkenny! (not that I did before, but I expect the worst)

323

alchemist33 wrote: »

Time to load up the boot -- spade, blanket, Lucozade, Mars bar, torch, wellies, spare set of clothes. Every winter I do this, I don't get stuck in Newtowncunningham and have to walk to Letterkenny! (not that I did before, but I expect the worst)

Time to change that name from alchemist to survivalist.

But better to have it and not need it.........

Deer Hunter DL

snow chains in Lidil tomorrow for 30 euros

ednwireland

Deer Hunter DL wrote: »

snow chains in Lidil tomorrow for 30 euros

bought !

NIMAN

ednwireland wrote: »

bought !

Illegal?

I think while its technically ok to buy them and use them (saw a few oil lorries with them last year), you can be fined for using anything which damages the road.

These chains are ok on solid ice, but if you drive around on a road with no ice on it you may damage the road (or the chains themselves).

ednwireland

NIMAN wrote: »

Illegal?

I think while its technically ok to buy them and use them (saw a few oil lorries with them last year), you can be fined for using anything which damages the road.

These chains are ok on solid ice, but if you drive around on a road with no ice on it you may damage the road (or the chains themselves).

just need them for getting up and down the hill from my house to the main road, which hasnt been gritted in all the years ive lived on it,
the lidl chains are only rated to 30kmh anyway so you need to take them off as soon as you are on the main roads.

as far as ok on ice, nothing keeps you going on ice, chains are really for packed snow and we had 2 miles of that for weeks for the last 2 years most of the time you can get up and down it ok but when its bad........

anyway they are there for the other car ( which wont get winter tyres on it) !

byte

Heh, hard to damage already bad roads:pac:

I'd say they'd do more damage to your tyres than the road, especially over the stated speed.

I hope that they won't be needed this Christmas, though probably a worthy purchase for 30eur.

danniemcq

Ice on the top of cars this morning! first time i seen it this season.

wish i had put on a jacket this morning not just a hoody!

danniemcq

homer_simpson wrote: »

Lazy git, thats one of my pet hates, someone saying x-mas indtead of typing the extra 5 letters and saying Christmas :P

Can't see it being a white Christmas myself either but ya just never know. After last year I think its best to always expect the bad weather!

says the guy to lazy to spell check

colonel-yum-yum

danniemcq wrote: »

Ice on the top of cars this morning! first time i seen it this season.

I kind of expected it with how clear it got last night, but wasn't expecting it to be near as thick as it was. Time to get back into the routine of getting the car warming up before I leave the house.

Delphi91

danniemcq wrote: »

says the guy to lazy to spell check

I think you meant too lazy ;);)

Sorry, couldn't resist it - no offence intended!

homer simpson

Delphi91 wrote: »

I think you meant too lazy ;);)

Sorry, couldn't resist it - no offence intended!

How do ya like them apples Dannie :pac:

I have a wee thermometer here at the house and I see 5 minutes ago when I came it it was reading 0 degree's, felt every bit of it too!

martyeds

Slight shower of hailstones earlier in Letterkenny.....this could be the beginning of it.

irish1967

Near damaging hail here the size of marbles. Thought I was gonna lose a few windows. Noise was incredible. Not a evening to be out and about.

homer simpson

irish1967 wrote: »

Near damaging hail here the size of marbles. Thought I was gonna lose a few windows. Noise was incredible. Not a evening to be out and about.

Come join us for our weekly game of board.ie footy :pac:

irish1967

Running from car to building wud wreck me for a week !

Deer Hunter DL

could be a white christmas yet , starting to get right windy now tho but its still very cold

martyeds

muffler wrote: »

Paddy Power is giving odds of 7/2 for both Dublin and Belfast.

Maybe they know something we dont

Odds have drifted (no pun intended) to 4/1 now

Senna

A lot of talk over on the weather forum about snow on Sunday/Monday for the NW.
But if it does come it shouldn't be too much and wont last long.

Harps

Yeah just a few showers if it does, nothing like the past couple of years where it didn't melt for weeks.

It'll definitely snow on high ground, just depends how low down it manages to get. Letterkenny has been a bit of a magnet for snow over the past few years so wouldn't be surprised if we get a covering here

Deer Hunter DL

snowing in kilcar and killybegs and the bluestack today , could be white in the morning

alchemist33

Snow up high in letterkenny now. Nothing heavy yet so I'll have to go to work, dammit.

irish1967

No snow in Donegal Town. Recent hail shower but driving should be ok with a little care. Car windows not frozen.

ednwireland

irish1967 wrote: »

No snow in Donegal Town. Recent hail shower but driving should be ok with a little care. Car windows not frozen.

drimarone road white with hail (wish i'd been less lazy and put the winter tyres on yesterday aft) mains roads/ town absolutely fine

buckfasterer

Drumkeen was a disaster this morning with the way people were driving going through it. You'd sweat this was the first time we'd seen snow!

Deer Hunter DL

buckfasterer wrote: »

Drumkeen was a disaster this morning with the way people were driving going through it. You'd sweat this was the first time we'd seen snow!

people driving silly slow or way too fast ? probably way too slow i would think ?

buckfasterer

Deer Hunter DL wrote: »

buckfasterer wrote: »

Drumkeen was a disaster this morning with the way people were driving going through it. You'd sweat this was the first time we'd seen snow!

people driving silly slow or way too fast ? probably way too slow i would think ?

Yeah silly slow. Took me almost 45 mins to go from lk to ballybofey and this is when the snow isn't bad yet!

Harps

Meenaroy isn't too bad, heard a lorry got stuck this morning but clear again now. Some slushy snow on the road but easily passable anyway

irish1967

Folks it's possible we are in for a biggie tomorrow Thursday. Could be a mega wind storm. Keep a eye on the below thread for updates. This could be a very dangerous one as it is due to peak around 3pm.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056474874

Deer Hunter DL

its also going to get cold too , i was watching the birds yesterday feeding crazily at stuff i left out for them normally when you see them acting like that you know theres some serious **** going down in the next few days lol

irish1967

(refrains from making any postman jokes)

Harps

Yep there's also a good chance of heavy snow Thursday evening into Friday, blizzard conditions on high ground but probably not too bad lower down

NIMAN

Always love the 'snow on higher ground' line.

How many people actually live on 'higher ground'? If there's snow on the hill's I don't care.

irish1967

Harps I assume you saw the latest charts with the wind literally off the scale. Batten down the hatches.

colonel-yum-yum

Thank Cod I don't have to walk from work anymore!

Harps

NIMAN wrote: »

Always love the 'snow on higher ground' line.

How many people actually live on 'higher ground'? If there's snow on the hill's I don't care.

Blizzards on higher ground but there's a chance of snow pretty much everywhere away from the coast tomorrow evening onwards

North_West_Art

roads in Finn Valley starting to get pretty slippery this evening, some secondary roads have black ice as I just discovered 10 minutes ago, so take it handy

paulmclaughlin

Roads were a disaster last night! Cars slipping everywhere, several off the road.

Mint Sauce

Dusting of snow going through Drumkeen yesterday.

Deer Hunter DL

carefull on the roads tonight its getting cold and theres heavy hail showers about and its laying in places

irish1967

Letterkenny to Finner road bad with black ice. Gap very slippy in places. Raining here in donegal town on top of last nights snow. Roads and footpaths slippy in places.

muffler

irish1967 wrote: »

Letterkenny to Finner road bad with black ice. Gap very slippy in places. Raining here in donegal town on top of last nights snow. Roads and footpaths slippy in places.

You had snow?

irish1967

Yeah. Big shower at midnight last night. Didn't it snow there too ????

muffler

We had a bit of sleet/hail after 10 last night but that was all....well apart from the black ice.

I can see snow up on the hills though and a couple of those hills aren't really very high.

Graces7

Sounds like old times indeed!

After 22nd it can do what it likes as I am off the markets then for a while... But would like to be able to get out until Christmas.

Stay safe and warm up there