Cold discussion 18th Jan onward - cold for at least 5 more days, some snow

Graces7

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

This photo overlooking the Wicklow Mts was taken by the Irish Air Corps yesterday.



What an amazing looking place.

Beautiful,..would dearly love an aerial shot of "my" mountains.....always think of Tolkien when I see these...

Graces7

A soft wet morning..well probably the rain is too heavy for "soft".. but calm and still and even though it is cold, lacks the sharp bite of recent days. Thankful for the respite... When I was on the Scottish island there was one stream bank that was always the last to thaw and they would say that the snow was not over until that had melted. They were always right... will be interesting to see when the tops bare themselves again here. Will be over the Caha Pass early tomorrow..cannot afford to go through the gate at Mizen Head ....Ah well!

Graces7

mountainy man wrote: »

I'm hoping for a good thaw at this stage, have had snow lying since tues 13th and as much as I like snow I'm over it! still about 4 inches of frozen snow here. currently 2.6C and rising so hopefully I will be able to walk normally tomorrow or soon.

I know. Back in 2010 I was up in the Bluestacks in Donegal and got used to melting snow for water but grand when life could be more normally focussed. It was the same here on boards... folks got weary of coping with life in the ice. Drama should not last weeks;)

Schadenfreudia

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

This photo overlooking the Wicklow Mts was taken by the Irish Air Corps yesterday.



What an amazing looking place.

Amazing also how the snow cover was reduced so much compared to a week ago given that the temperature near sea level hovered around zero much of the time and never exceeded 5 degrees.

I don't want to go up the hills for my snow-fix, I want it to come down to me!

snowstreams

Schadenfreudia wrote: »

Amazing also how the snow cover was reduced so much compared to a week ago given that the temperature near sea level hovered around zero much of the time and never exceeded 5 degrees.

I don't want to go up the hills for my snow-fix, I want it to come down to me!

You can still see that Lugnaquilla is quite alot white near its top than the other mountains beside it. Maybe thats just because its in cloud and thats stopping the sun from melting it as much.

Alun

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

This photo overlooking the Wicklow Mts was taken by the Irish Air Corps yesterday.
What an amazing looking place.

Is that on their website anywhere? Could there be a higher res version maybe?

Gonzo

Temps nearly double figures everywhere today, glad to see the back of the past 2 weeks of very cold conditions. On the plus side it was mostly very dry and sunny, now that it's mild it's back to rain!

The next 7 days looks mostly very mild but a small chance of colder conditions returning from February 1st.

Lumi

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