Very Cold, Snowy Weather Feb 28th - March 3rd 2015

Strangegravy

Just under an inch lying here in Limerick, still snowing now again adding to it, but getting lighter.

Storm 10

Nice bit of snow in Galway , traffic chaos on the N17 at Tum, trucks jack knifed and roads reported to be very bad all round

hollster2

Finally proper snow in tinahely

And gone.

Baggy Trousers

Storm 10 wrote: »

Nice bit of snow in Galway , traffic chaos on the N17 at Tum, trucks jack knifed and roads reported to be very bad all round

I am in west Galway and the quality of the snow is very poor. It's small flakes mixed with small hailstones so it's very loose stuff.
The countryside does look really nice. I think as you travel inland the snow and depth gets better (Tuam, Athenry etc).

ronnie3585

The roads are trecherous in Galway City, it was horrible trying to cross west to east this morning. Sick on this snow already:(

Pretzill

Gosh really thick blanket in South Sligo (on the hill) branches are white - The sun is out so I don't know how long it will last but didn't expect that much!

Reiketsu

Just saw on twitter where someone measured the snow depth here and it's 9 inches! Roads are a disaster but my daughter's school is in the only one not closed within a 5+ mile radius! People really struggling in their cars. (Dungiven, Derry).

yorlum11

Best covering this winter so far in Westport. Roads are pretty bad. Looks great though. If that's it for this winter I will take it.

Tom Cruises Left Nut

Naas about to get hbit with a nice blobby shower

Pity I am in Dublin

amen

nice snow in Athenry. Roads are lethal though with a thin layer of ice under the snow. Traffic is crazy with commute times of 1 hour to Galway City (normally 20 mins)

philstar

bucketing down now in east clare

ongarboy

3rd day in a row of lying snow in Dublin 15! (although yesterday and today could be considered dustings at best - Sunday was the real deal!!).

Classic March comes in as a lion stuff!:)

snowstreams

ronnie3585 wrote: »

The roads are trecherous in Galway City, it was horrible trying to cross west to east this morning. Sick on this snow already:(

Yeah i saw a few cars in ditches on the way to work in Galway city. I was half an hour late but so was everyone else I work with so it was fine!

Senna

About 5 inches here in Donegal and it just started snowing heavily here again

DOCARCH

Much bigger clumps of stuff out to the NW now, moving SE(ish)...http://www.sat24.com/en/gb...if it is/stays cold enough, some places in the north could be in for a bit of a pasting.

WheatenBriar

DOCARCH wrote: »

Much bigger clumps of stuff out to the NW now, moving SE(ish)...http://www.sat24.com/en/gb...if it is/stays cold enough, some places in the north could be in for a bit of a pasting.

Bbc news forecast stated rain in NI by afternoon except on high ground,I'd imagine that will also be the case further south ,it certainly looked like it on their map

Pangea

This thread has delivered the goods anyways, it needs to be said. Fairly widespread snow going by the posts here.

konman

About an inch here this morning

Pretzill

"Okay where's my ball?"



"Here it is!"


South Sligo 03/03/15
(and yes that's a bad snowman in the background!)

ComaWhite

I will never get tired of waking up to this view!

ronnie3585

ComaWhite wrote: »

I will never get tired of waking up to this view!

Sleeping in the snow again from the looks of it?

Pretzill

ComaWhite wrote: »

I will never get tired of waking up to this view!

I'd say that's a beautiful view even without the snow!

Gonzo

acassells80 wrote: »

Nothing in South Dublin by the sea. Only remains of the snow shower from yesterday evening

same here, barely a flake since that big shower we had around 2pm yesterday. All showers went to my north again! Just a few patchs left in very sheltered areas and ditchs.

Baggy Trousers

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Sleeping in the snow again from the looks of it?

That's what I thought. Drooly wet snow in your ear is not a good start to the morning.

Gonzo

Reiketsu wrote: »

Just saw on twitter where someone measured the snow depth here and it's 9 inches! Roads are a disaster but my daughter's school is in the only one not closed within a 5+ mile radius! People really struggling in their cars. (Dungiven, Derry).

Hopefully we will all see a bit more of that next year, that's the real deal!

I still have memories of waking up to that much snow one April morning way back in the mid 80s or thereabouts. There was barely anything left by nightfall tho as it thawed so quickly.

WheatenBriar

Pangea wrote: »

This thread has delivered the goods anyways, it needs to be said. Fairly widespread snow going by the posts here.

I'd disagree on the widespread point though
Less than a third of the land mas of the island has a covering this morning(less still yesterday and just the mountains by tomorrow) and certainly three quarters + of the population has no snow covering at all

But it's actually better or as good as previous Atlantic spells this year except less widespread

ComaWhite

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Sleeping in the snow again from the looks of it?

*searches google for DIY igloo*

Pangea

WheatenBriar wrote: »

I'd disagree on the widespread point though
Less than a third of the land mas of the island has a covering this morning(less still yesterday and just the mountains by tomorrow) and certainly three quarters + of the population has no snow covering at all

That itself is impressive! Well I didnt mean the whole of Ireland, the spots that were favoured for snow seem to have got it even at sea level i.e North and West, Midlands.

yellowlabrador

We've even had a few good showers in West Cork

Darwin

Some really strong gusts developing in the last 20 minutes (Laois), easily 40mph+...wonder if the next line of showers heading east will bring snow, hail or rain!