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    #92
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    catallus wrote: »
    What I want to know is where the hell all this global warming they promised is!?

    I had to clean snow off my car this morning! SNOW!!!!!

    Also, I like the wind.

    This whole global warming thinge mean more extreme weather, so be lucky your car isnt buried under 4 meters of snow :P


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    #93
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    This whole global warming thinge mean more extreme weather...:P

    Yeahyeahyeah, I've heard that before, first it was we were going to be sweltering in a 50 degree furnace and then they changed their story when the weather isn't doing what they guessed!

    Charlatans!


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    #94
    Tearin It Up
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Tearin It Up


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    This whole global warming thinge mean more extreme weather, so be lucky your car isnt buried under 4 meters of snow :P

    Extreme weather my arse.

    How come we don't get a nice, hot extreme summer.


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    #95
    The_Valeyard
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    Tearin It Up wrote: »
    Extreme weather my arse.

    How come we don't get a nice, hot extreme summer.


    We are not allowed nice things.


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    #96
    Zack Morris
    Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭Zack Morris


    Tearin It Up wrote: »
    Extreme weather my arse.

    How come we don't get a nice, hot extreme summer.

    For Ireland, global warming means warmer seas, more cloud and heavier rain. After the July 2013 heatwave, we had a record sea temperature of 20*C.

    Hurricanes form from a cluster of thunderstorms over seas of 27*C. If our sea temperature rises to near that temperature, we will get tropical storms that will make tonight's storm look like a pleasant stroll in the park.


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    #97
    The Backwards Man
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    Anyone seen this wind they were forecasting? Nothing but normal wintry weather here.


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    #98
    TPD
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Anyone seen this wind they were forecasting? Nothing but normal wintry weather here.

    Wind's coming and going in Letterkenny.


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    #99
    BBDBB
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    vicwatson wrote: »
    At my second attempt at docking the Oscar Wilde on runway 28. Not looking good.
    foxy farmer wrote: »
    Good luck with that. All flights are temporarily suspended due to extreme winds with the last few hours.
    Actually hang on a minute! You're landing a plane and texting at the same time. Glad I'm not a passenger on your flight.
    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Probably end up in Shannon airport with the wind.

    Actually I think flights were suspended earlier?
    No. 1 One Direction Fan wrote: »
    I'm just trying to land a plane at Dublin Airport




    Looks like I picked a hell of a week to give up drinking


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    #100
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,411 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Anyone seen this wind they were forecasting? Nothing but normal wintry weather here.

    Hundreds of schools are closed apparently.
    Used to be what we called a stormy day and everyone ignored it,now its code red apocalyptic end of the world melodrama.


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    #101
    The Backwards Man
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Hundreds of schools are closed apparently.
    Used to be what we called a stormy day and everyone ignored it,now its code red apocalyptic end of the world melodrama.

    Imagine we lived in a country that got real extreme weather?


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    #102
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,849 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    kneemos wrote: »
    Hundreds of schools are closed apparently.
    Used to be what we called a stormy day and everyone ignored it,now its code red apocalyptic end of the world melodrama.

    We just were told to be careful going to the outside jacks in case we got our heads opened with slates coming off the roof. :eek:

    By international standards, all we have here is a stiff breeze.


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    #103
    [Deleted User]
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    Tearin It Up wrote: »
    Extreme weather my arse.

    How come we don't get a nice, hot extreme summer.

    Because we complain that it's too hot when it's only 19 degrees.

    It's all our fault.


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    #104
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    e-mobile bb gone really slow in mid west.. storm??


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    #105
    Karl Stein
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    We just were told to be careful going to the outside jacks in case we got our heads opened with slates coming off the roof. :eek:

    I remember, as a small child, walking home from school in stormy weather looking at slates half buried in grass that had been flung off the local church roof.

    It's health and safety gone mad these days the way they make kids sit inside the car and all that type of thing.


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    #106
    mickdw
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    I think we get it pretty extreme here.
    I remember a couple of years back hurricane sandy caused death and destruction all along its bath.The highest recorded wind speed there was 115 mph. We have been known to get very close to that. They lost houses, infrastructure etc. We would simply call it a windy day.


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    #107
    The Backwards Man
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    There is a serious lesson to be learned here too. Now that the Met have their fancy new system and all the news sites are only too desperate to fill bandwidth, being too trigger happy with their warnings will do more harm than good, ie nobody will listen to them


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    #108
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,849 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    There is a serious lesson to be learned here too. Not that the Met have their fancy new system and all the need sites are only to desperate to fill bandwidth, being too trigger happy with their warnings will do more harm than good, ie nobody will listen to them

    To be fair, a wind that might floor you in one part of the country may only knock over a plastic garden chair somewhere else. They're only covering themselves.


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    #109
    Riskymove
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    There is a serious lesson to be learned here too. Now that the Met have their fancy new system and all the news sites are only too desperate to fill bandwidth, being too trigger happy with their warnings will do more harm than good, ie nobody will listen to them

    this will eventually be the typical Irish experience

    the current approach is based on the public uproar and media driven acceptance based on silly positions

    "ME never told me it was foggy" "AA roadwatch never told me to put on my lights" etc etc

    Now to be followed by "ah sure they are always warning us about something" so I just went out and ignored the info.


    It amazes me how people seem to have completely lost the ability to research the weather and take appropriate action. People out in lashing rain with an inappropriate coat, no umbrella or hat etc


    it was cold yesterday so I'll wrap up today regardless of it being much milder and vice versa.

    There are plenty of apps etc so I really don't get it


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    #110
    Tearin It Up
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Tearin It Up


    Why do they all have names. Its Storm Rachel now. Last year it was Storm Darwin.

    Let's hope they never call it Storm Garth. We're in for it then.


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    #111
    Aglomerado
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    Tearin It Up wrote: »
    Why do they all have names. Its Storm Rachel now. Last year it was Storm Darwin.

    Let's hope they never call it Storm Garth. We're in for it then.

    I'd say we'll be all right. Garth won't come until he gets to blow for five consecutive nights.


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    #112
    whisky_galore
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    Tearin It Up wrote: »
    Why do they all have names. Its Storm Rachel now. Last year it was Storm Darwin.

    Let's hope they never call it Storm Garth. We're in for it then.

    They could call them Storm a, b, c, but they'd run out letters or Storm 1, 2, 3.. etc but it would get very boring.


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    #113
    Kiwi in IE
    Registered Users Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭Kiwi in IE


    I would like listening to the wind..........if the ESB had the ability to maintain service when it blows. After nearly 24 hours without electricity I am pretty much over the ESB and the wind.


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    #114
    Bobeagleburger
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    Red alert me @rse.


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    #115
    Deenie123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 481 ✭✭Deenie123


    mickdw wrote: »
    I think we get it pretty extreme here.
    I remember a couple of years back hurricane sandy caused death and destruction all along its bath.The highest recorded wind speed there was 115 mph. We have been known to get very close to that. They lost houses, infrastructure etc. We would simply call it a windy day.

    Sustained or gust?


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