Severe Weather Snow / Ice Weds 28 FEB ( Onwards ) ** READ MOD NOTE POST#1**

obriener2054

Spot the car

Keithchap

I met a man taking photo's of the snow last week along the Royal Canal in Ashtown, asked me if he could take a photo with me pulling the kids on a blue sled, if your the photogrpaher can you give me shout, I'd love to get a copy, thanks.

Graces7

Only just back online after six months of no electricity then waiting for internet access. I was thinking of you all when the snow came; of the Corkonians who always bemoaned no snow. Wondering how RobertKK managed the cattle...

I migrated offshore last year and we had just a little snow; I was longing to make a snowman... But such bitter cold The mountains that surround us were awesome

Glad so many had wishes granted,...all clear here on west coast.

sryanbruen

Graces7 wrote: »

Only just back online after six months of no electricity then waiting for internet access. I was thinking of you all when the snow came; of the Corkonians who always bemoaned no snow. Wondering how RobertKK managed the cattle...

I migrated offshore last year and we had just a little snow; I was longing to make a snowman... But such bitter cold The mountains that surround us were awesome

Glad so many had wishes granted,...all clear here on west coast.

Welcome back Graces7.

Casualsingby

Graces7 wrote: »

Only just back online after six months of no electricity then waiting for internet access. I was thinking of you all when the snow came; of the Corkonians who always bemoaned no snow. Wondering how RobertKK managed the cattle...

I migrated offshore last year and we had just a little snow; I was longing to make a snowman... But such bitter cold The mountains that surround us were awesome

Glad so many had wishes granted,...all clear here on west coast.

How did you manage no electricity for that long? I'd lose my marbles.

sryanbruen

George Sunsnow wrote: »

I don’t disagree on the probability whilst the jet is into Morocco
However when that rebounds back to where it’s supposed to be,any residual cold will move further east into Russia never hopefully to bother Ireland at least (maybe briefly east anglia) untill next winter
I’d expect that by the time further artic leakage occurs that the jet will be back hopefully before

I would prefer that, don't really want cold or snow. Emma made me sick of it.

Graces7

Casualsingby wrote: »

How did you manage no electricity for that long? I'd lose my marbles.

When a choice between living in my car and this? Gee I would have frozen to death! Did not know at the start it WOULD be that long! May post on the survivalist forum! But you certainly heed the weather more when no heating....caught the radio forecasts every day and yes. envied the Corkonians,

Utterly silent out there and frost forecast,

tartetatin

Ah Graces7, we missed you

Pa ElGrande

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ7iqbJrBSw

Storm Damage to farmers especially Wexford. Scroll to 13 minutes in.

Half my garden is still covered in snow and there is a foot high mound of snow beside my car on the road. With temps of 8 degrees and rain tomorrow afternoon, am hoping it will see of the rest of the snow. Am in Naas.
It's great to see Graces7 return, I always wondered what happened.

JCX BXC

Last of the snow melted today, rather quickly too. Was bizzare seeing blazing spring sun and 10c and snow simultaneously. The sun and temperature made easy work of the remaining snow in the end. Probably still some piles around though.

The 10c today feels like summer, alot warmer than I ever remember 10c feeling before, perhaps due to our cold weather lately?

nacho libre

http://thescienceexplorer.com/nature/snownado-rare-winter-weather-phenomenon

I saw one of these, or something very similar, in my local park during last week! The snow was whipped into a funnel shape and rose off the ground for a few minutes!

Graces7

The snow we had here was that nasty gritty kind. Like needles in your eyes and took ages to make any real coveriing.Not the huge satisfying fat flakes that amass fast .The wind was ferocious and it did try to make a snowdrift but it was pathetic.

david75

Some snow won’t give up.
This s few hours ago in the Phoenix Park. Those bollards are about 3 feet high. Loads of drifts still around the park but huge pools of melted snow as well.

sdanseo

david75 wrote: »

Some snow won’t give up.
This s few hours ago in the Phoenix Park. Those bollards are about 3 feet high. Loads of drifts still around the park but huge pools of melted snow as well.

There's still loads out in Kildare even on relatively flat ground where you wouldn't at all think it should have lasted.

Switching jobs next week back to Dublin so unfortunately won't be able to compare the weather there to here as easily. It's struck me in the last couple of weeks just how much of a difference even just a few km or so makes to the effects of the weather.

M.T. Cranium

Should there be a flooding risk thread for today? I don't want to start it because I don't know the details of the risk, just looks to me like perhaps one would be useful to collect reports on flooding of roads and streams. Or just keep it here with perhaps a new title (level one alert possibly?)

Cork Boy 53

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Should there be a flooding risk thread for today? I don't want to start it because I don't know the details of the risk, just looks to me like perhaps one would be useful to collect reports on flooding of roads and streams. Or just keep it here with perhaps a new title (level one alert possibly?)

There already has been some flooding in parts of the country. In my own area there is a small river that has its course through a valley which last weekend overflowed its banks due to snow melt and which caused some local flooding. The current mild rainy weather will also likely cause problems in areas which still have significant lying snow.

sryanbruen

Here's a funny but very weird video of me doing a little parody of Merry Christmas Everyone by Shakin' Stevens during the beast from the east on 28 February 2018. Enjoy

Macy0161

M.T. Cranium wrote:

Should there be a flooding risk thread for today? I don't want to start it because I don't know the details of the risk, just looks to me like perhaps one would be useful to collect reports on flooding of roads and streams. Or just keep it here with perhaps a new title (level one alert possibly?)

Considering the rain and temp, I'm surprised at the rate of thaw. The stream in my back yard is up, but not close to being a flood threat, yet.

Cork Boy 53

sryanbruen wrote: »

Here's a funny but very weird video of me doing a little parody of Merry Christmas Everyone by Shakin' Stevens during the beast from the east on 28 February 2018. Enjoy

Nice one sryanbruen.:cool: How long did it take for the snow to fully thaw in your area? It had completely gone in my area of west Cork by last Wednesday. Apologies if you have already posted about this.

sryanbruen

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

Nice one sryanbruen.:cool: How long did it take for the snow to fully thaw in your area? It had completely gone in my area of west Cork by last Wednesday. Apologies if you have already posted about this.

It's still not fully thawed up to yesterday, have not seen today. There's still piles of slush lying around various parts of the area. That part of the road I've named outside Grattan Hall apartments still has quite a coverage of snow and slush but thankfully, it's become less impactful on driving conditions.

For my own gardens, there is no snow or slush at all since I think Wednesday.

Artane2002

Had it really been mild? It's been cold here up until today. Obviously nothing as cold as the beast but still below average. Still some bits of snow here.

Front garden snow drift (not piles of snow from clearing) has just dipped below 17 inches this morning.

Donegal Storm

Most of the remaining lying snow is gone here this morning after the rain, still plenty of snow everywhere but mainly in drifts and piles now. Lots of standing water and pools in the fields and generally everything's still a mess, grass verges have been turned to muck from people avoiding walking on footpaths all week. We could really use a dry mild week to kickstart a bit of growth

Cantona's Collars

Driving around Wexford this morning,10c and lashing rain with snow still lying in the fields and drifts still in the ditches,not counting what snow ploughs piled up.
Mini fog patches over the snow as the rain came down.
One woman in a shop told me she "can't wait to see the glacier across the road eventually melt."

sryanbruen

https://twitter.com/waterfordis/status/972833967283032064

JCX BXC

Doesn't even look real!

highdef

Well this was the view on a local road close to my home in North Kildare, near the Meath border, yesterday afternoon.

thinkingahead

TV3 weatherman Deric Ó hArtagáin took to Twitter on Sunday to share his long-range forecast.

He shared a weather map alongside the caption: So ...no need for alarm just yet but something is stirring for next weekend.

"Could #BeastFromTheEast could be making a come back?! Early tracking models for next Sunday 18th.

"Nothing confirmed. Will be keeping a close eye!!" he said

While Met Eireann have yet to share their forecast for March 17, they wrote on their website: "Signs are for colder weather next weekend."

A more detailed forecast is likely to be posted in the coming days.

A Met Eireann forecaster was unable to rule it out when they told The Sun: “I wouldn’t want to put any bets on it. With the high pressure over Scandinavia it could, literally, go either way.”

The added: “The weekend is actually quite uncertain. What we have is several low pressure systems in the mid-Atlantic at the moment.

“For Wednesday and Thursday it will become very windy, it will be a very wet day on Wednesday.

“On Thursday this low pressure system is going to stay in situ for another day or three and that is basically what we can say.

“However, there is a high pressure system over Scandinavia, so it is a battle between them – basically Ireland is sitting on the fence between the low pressure and high pressure."

M.T. Cranium

I'm sure this thread was locked yesterday.

If there's going to be a second beast from the east, I would suggest a new thread for it. The current state of play seems to be 70% chance of a severe cold and snow episode next Sunday 18th into Monday 19th. The ECM is particularly bullish on this, Arpege runs out before start time but looks to be supporting ECM, GEM has come fully in line now, and GFS backed off its earlier no-cold flip-flop and is over to a southerly dive into the western Med so in other words a modified cold without as much (if any) snow potential for Ireland.

Would say hold meeting of the minds and determine when to start new thread.