##RAMPING THREAD##

whitebriar

Gonzo wrote: »

agreed this has gone way out of control, people having severe arguments over the weather, it's not like the snow or lack of it is gonna effect our lives to any great deal, the weather in Ireland is generally dull and boring and it's only every now and then we get a brief moment of excitement such as snowfall, high temperatures, extreme winds or thunderstorms.

I can understand being dissappointed as certain weather events do not work out but attacking other users with personal insults on their opinions I do not understand. It does not achieve anything other than a smaller audience, screaming at people who say it's not gonna snow tomorrow is not gonna make it magically snow. Hopefully next winter will see less drama in here and more drama with the actual weather itself.

Hear here! And well said!

Mr.Burns

Lads I don't know much about what's going on but having read the last few pages I've one question to ask.

Why was this Min singled out in particular and told by the mods to create his own thread if he was doing nothing wrong?

Mr Bumble

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

While you may not find these insulting, I find the content and tone of these posts both disrespectful and uncalled for to someone who was merely giving his opinion in his typically respectful manner. It seems now that people are just appointing themselves judge, jury and executioner when posters don't agree with them because the only ones accusing Min of trolling are yourself and that Cork fella.

All of the above is entirely reasonable if the response to the posts in question happened in isolation. But they didn't.
Nobody insulted Min. Sure there was a bit of mild name-calling but nothing out of the ordinary.
Are you aware of the history behind this? This is a long running thing.
The posts at issue were both repetitive and obtuse and posted in the wrong place. Some would call that trolling.

whitebriar

Mr.Burns wrote: »

Lads I don't know much about what's going on but having read the last few pages I've one question to ask.

Why was this Min singled out in particular and told by the mods to create his own thread if he was doing nothing wrong?

ok,which one are you,cork surfer? This is tiresome,there's places called pubs,ya know

Mr.Burns

whitebriar wrote: »

ok,which one are you,cork surfer? This is tiresome,there's places called pubs,ya know

I don't understand the question?

Mr Bumble

whitebriar wrote: »

ok,which one are you,cork surfer? This is tiresome,there's places called pubs,ya know

Not budging out tonight.....could bounce peas on my stomach after big feed (ramp) of Railway Lamb.....

United road

Everyone should drop it now. Hard as that might be!
No one likes or wants to back down!
We want snow
Others dont
Fine.
But really! No need for those that dont want snow to be here in this thread! Also no need for those who want snow to get sucked in by these posters who are up to no good.
My tupence worth. Min should not post in here with the comments he does, just like spongebob shouldnt have in previous times!! its not a "i hope we get no snow" thread
For me - its a stupid end to what has been a stupid snowless winter (snowless by the standards i had hoped for)

pistolpetes11

OK FOLKS

LETS KEEP IT ON TOPIC , LESS OF THE INSULTS, REPORT A POST IF YOU THINK THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH IT, DONT TRY TO DEAL WITH IT YOURSELF AS THINGS ONLY DESCEND INTO A FARCE LIKE THEY HAVE NOW .

PLAY THE BALL NOT THE MAN (dont attack the poster , address the post )

Thank you

Elmer Blooker

back in business again and the ramping goes on!
the 12z ECM is unbelievable, could winter 12/13 which delivered some brilliant charts but little else go out in style?
C'mon, winter's last stand!

200motels

This is the sort of chart I've been waiting for, let's ramp it up.

Nabber

Some nice charts there. Good bit out, but I wont stop ramping till the end of October 2013, then I'll start ramping 13/14 winter around the first week of November

Redsunset

The last hurrah?

whitebriar

Well here's as good a place as any to post my opinion, given,I'm pretty confident,and in the immortal words of The excellent BBC forecaster Tomaz Schaffenaker from 2010 'if you dont like snow look away now'

After next weekend, it does look plausible that the coldmageddon that Mt has been expecting will come to pass just outside of the timeline he gave.
The Fi signals are varying in depth of cold but I'm expecting from about day 9 (from now)by the looks of things we'll know all about it.
Its potentially a much colder feed of air than last weekend and crucially a lot more unstable.
I think it could get so cold that the length of daylight will not matter one jot,snow cover will persist enough to cause problems.
You put -9c or colder(as is likely eventually) air southwestwards fast over the Irish sea with a near freezing surface flow and you will have thundersnow
Once in place it will take a while to shift this pattern.

No guarantee on the above but its highly probable in my opinion now (A lot of rain likely in the interim)

Elmer Blooker

Well put wb. I don't have much time for this spring/sun too strong stuff. If it's cold enough it will snow in March and if it's snowing during the day time there's no sun to melt it! :rolleyes:
March can be colder than January the same way September can be warmer than July. All we can do now is sit back and ramp wait and see if winter can out in style!

Harry Deerpark

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

Well put wb. I don't have much time for this spring/sun too strong stuff. If it's cold enough it will snow in March and if it's snowing during the day time there's no sun to melt it! :rolleyes:
March can be colder than January the same way September can be warmer than July. All we can do now is sit back and ramp wait and see if winter can out in style!

September 2011 and 2012 WAS warmer than the preceding Julys.

Also, does anyone on the east coast remember March 2001? I got a few days off school because 4 inches of snow fell overnight, first and only time I got off school because of snow.

Pangea

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

Well put wb. I don't have much time for this spring/sun too strong stuff. If it's cold enough it will snow in March and if it's snowing during the day time there's no sun to melt it! :rolleyes:
March can be colder than January the same way September can be warmer than July. All we can do now is sit back and ramp wait and see if winter can out in style!

Google Maps couldn't even get through the Donegal/Tyrone border without encountering the white stuff one April
http://maps.google.ie/maps?hl=en&ll=54.742659,-7.592583&spn=0.048951,0.336113&t=m&layer=c&cbll=54.742622,-7.592426&panoid=SLdFb8rVrT3WjivfP8LQ2w&cbp=11,205.9,,0,4.88&z=12

Lucreto

whitebriar wrote: »

Well here's as good a place as any to post my opinion, given,I'm pretty confident,and in the immortal words of The excellent BBC forecaster Tomaz Schaffenaker from 2010 'if you dont like snow look away now'

After next weekend, it does look plausible that the coldmageddon that Mt has been expecting will come to pass just outside of the timeline he gave.
The Fi signals are varying in depth of cold but I'm expecting from about day 9 (from now)by the looks of things we'll know all about it.
Its potentially a much colder feed of air than last weekend and crucially a lot more unstable.
I think it could get so cold that the length of daylight will not matter one jot,snow cover will persist enough to cause problems.
You put -9c or colder(as is likely eventually) air southwestwards fast over the Irish sea with a near freezing surface flow and you will have thundersnow
Once in place it will take a while to shift this pattern.

No guarantee on the above but its highly probable in my opinion now (A lot of rain likely in the interim)

Let us hope we get something more than last time but less than this.

Elmer Blooker

:eek: wtf is this? this has end nov/dec 2010 written all over it!!

Mr Bumble

lawdy......i thought we were ramped out!!!! Away for a few days and models go mad......have three feet of snow in back garden (Verbier, CH) now.....and given the exctended ramp, i thought i'd do a bit of snow writing

ninebeanrows

I have taken the decision to close this thread as i have been away for the last few days and just cannot believe the amount of crap on here. The forums to discuss the weather and perhaps a thread like this encourages meaningless chitchat and arguments.