Tuesday 9 January, chance of lying snow Munster / South Leinster
Comments
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Location, Location, Location!
When 'Reeling in the Years' it makes all the difference, where certain years weather events will be permanently etched in one persons memory, yet the very same year will yield nothing but, "What was so special about 19** ???" in someone elses.
I lived in Firhouse Co. Dublin for 1982 and was about to turn 8 years old. The whole family got lost in a Blizzard walking back from Gubays Supermarket. Only 500 metres with plenty of 'Landmarks' of rows of houses and tree's but because it was literally white out conditions where you couldn't see your hands in front of your face, we ended up turned 90deg and walking across a green space in the wrong direction.
Funny for the parents. 8 Year old me was **** myself that we'd end up at the Hellfire Club!! LOL.
Remember a great Snowfall that lasted a week in 1984 in Firhouse as well, yet don't see anyone talk about 1984.
Moved to Bray by 1987 and even Bray got an almighty dumping that year and its certainly another year that everyone on the East Coast remembers well.
Its after 1987 and being in Bray that means the 1990's and Noughties hold no memorable snow events for me despite others talking about the great snow of 1991 or 1996?? or 20**etc until Jan & Nov/Dec 2010. Bray only seemed to catch a dusting for a day or two while others were buried many times during those 20 years.
Location, Location, Location was at its most dramatic for me in 2018 because it wasn't a case of Towns or villages a few miles up or down the road getting a dumping while we in Bray got SFA. It was a case of most of Bray getting a dumping except near the Seafront. I'm a road back from the Strand Road so basically Sea Level. We got the same 5cm as the rest of Bray from the Streamers. Very nice and easy to walk around in. Then Storm Emma hit. We near the Seafront ended up with our 5cm turning into a 2cm slushy mess, because the gale force winds blew in Salty Sea Spray over us, a natural de-icer preventing any accumulation of the epic amounts of snow falling and melting some of what we already had. Yet only 900m deeper into the town and 50m elevation higher beyond the point where the Salty Sea Spray settled out, back gardens had 12-18 inches of level snow and 5ft snow drifts against back garden walls from Emma.
So 1987-2010 gets a 'Meh' from me in particular in my part of Bray wrt to snow events, yet that near quarter century timespan holds many memorable Snow events for others not very far away. Location, Location, Location!!
12 -
Advertisement
-
Reminds me very much of the 2018 snow, this low resolution screengrab from a video clearly shows how the snow has filled in the road between the hedgerows, with a local man struggling to make progress on foot. And such was the nature of the blizzard, you can see a large swathe of the field on the left with next to nothing in the way of lying snow.
Location is north Kildare at about 120m ASL where the man is standing with the hill behind rising to 146m ASL.
9 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
