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

Equium

Just opened my door in Dublin 6 to find this.

https://imgur.com/a/R3955

revelman

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Is the power gone in Kinsale?

Last I heard 150 homes were without power but ESB were working to reconnect them before 4pm.

2Mad2BeMad

2Mad2BeMad wrote: »

just seen on the news, that its being extended too 3pm tomorrow

Is that 3pm for the entire country, someone I know posted saying that he got a group message from his boss telling them all to be for work at 7am as the red warning lifts at 6am.

igCorcaigh

Cypher_sounds wrote: »

How long was it removed for before being updated?

Not sure. Few minutes or less?

littlema

Radharc na Sleibhte wrote: »

This is ridiculous. Who is the god of snow? What did I do to annoy him/her. Benbulben is as green as a cabbage. Feck it.

South Sligo 152asl has a nice white blanket

appledrop

Snowing all day here in North County Dublin. Blizzard like now. I've never seen anything like it. Years ago you would have days when you wake up + place covered in snow but it wpuld nearly be gone by next day. Never remember it snowing non stop. I'm too young for 1982 was it this bad then?

FastFullBack

The Specialist wrote: »

https://www.windy.com/?53.347,-6.244,5

Thanks that's a nice website.

I presume the various radars websites (even though there is questions of their accuracy) will pick up the precipitation that comes from Emma? When should we start looking to the south to see these?

bennyl10

guys check the models.. if they're even half true this is gonna be a whole country event..
looks incredible

Kamili

Varadkar is apparently calling the forecasted conditions a "Total Wipeout"

The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar warned in a public address that in a blizzard scenario it could be “total wipeout” outdoors, and that between 4pm today and 12 noon on Friday the country is on “red alert”.

http://www.thejournal.ie/weather-warning-thursday-3876686-Mar2018/#comments

Wipeout! Lads its a wipeout!!

Uhm.. does he mean Whiteout?

Try_harder

Over a foot of snow lying in areas out the back in my parents house! I didn’t realise til I sank! 6”,7”, 10”... 14”!!!

Try_harder

Try_harder wrote: »

Over a foot of snow lying in areas out the back in my parents house! I didn’t realise til I sank! 6”,7”, 10”... 14”!!!

North Offaly btw

q85dw7osi4lebg

Council workers out clearing the snow here in Laytown, Co Meath.:pac:

Emma can do what she wants, I've had my fix!

SkepticQuark

Haven't had any snow able to stick for the last 24 hours in south-west of tipp.... snow has nearly completely thawed here.

igCorcaigh

FastFullBack wrote: »

Thanks that's a nice website.

I presume the various radars websites (even though there is questions of their accuracy) will pick up the precipitation that comes from Emma? When should we start looking to the south to see these?

There's an app as well with a nice widget. I think they use the GFS model.

Cork Boy 53

Karina Buckley from ME has said that the south coast should be seeing the first effects from Emma from 3pm.

Pangea

Never seen it so dry here in SW Donegal, zero snow, everywhere else has snow it seems even North Donegal!

leahyl

Corrina what’s her face on Jow Duffy show saying the heavy snowfall will start around 3pm in the south....so to the people who don’t get home by 4pm....May God have mercy on your souls :-P

otherfrog

The eagerness of certain people to pile on with criticism of Met Eireann is telling.

"Farce", no. Just took a few minutes to update the site with separate Red Warnings as the impacts in various regions will not be identical, that's all.

_Brian

appledrop wrote: »

Snowing all day here in North County Dublin. Blizzard like now. I've never seen anything like it. Years ago you would have days when you wake up + place covered in snow but it wpuld nearly be gone by next day. Never remember it snowing non stop. I'm too young for 1982 was it this bad then?

We’re in east Cavan and it was worse in 1982.
We had 12 inches blanket and drifts to 6 feet extending for long stretches on the roads. I remember walking to our farm and in many places we were poking sticks down through the snow to find the cars buried below.

At the moment we have 8 inches lying snow drifting to 12 inches in places. -7 last night.

Unearthly

Just went outside in it for a short walk in d15. Breathtaking

Skedaddle

I'm just looking at the wind maps and I don't really see any sign of the usual southwesterly system conveyor belt along the jet stream restablishing itself.

Any sign of when normal service will be resumed?

LuckyGent88

Will Emma hurry on and hit Ennis. But of light snow but noting that will get us out of work

siochain

this is epic, hasn't stopped in 7am this morning in Kildare

class following the action here https://www.windy.com/?rain,53.347,-6.244,5

squarecircles

This will not be blizzard like this will be a blizzard!

siobhan ryan on the latest television forecast

vapor trails

Dunsany, Co. Meath.

Kamili

appledrop wrote: »

Snowing all day here in North County Dublin. Blizzard like now. I've never seen anything like it. Years ago you would have days when you wake up + place covered in snow but it wpuld nearly be gone by next day. Never remember it snowing non stop. I'm too young for 1982 was it this bad then?

nope, in '82 there were 4-5ft snow drifts.

Try_harder

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

Will Emma hurry on and hit Ennis. But of light snow but noting that will get us out of work

Unless you work in emergency services you have to be home by 4! Employer playing a dangerous game

revelman

vapor trails wrote: »

Dunsany, Co. Meath.

Is that on your lawn? If those measurements tend to overstate. You should measure on a level surface such as driveway or top of a car.

no.8

vapor trails wrote: »

Dunsany, Co. Meath.

Very impressive!
Proper measurement as well (not on the windward side of a wall ).

Gaoth Laidir

It's difficult to walk against the wind here in Celbridge now with the extent of the blowing snow.

Worse, there's a yellow snow warning out too...