Jan 2025 - Snow & Freezing Conditions - Discussion PART II

nacho libre

We have had very little precipitation so far. It has gotten milder over the day but still feels fairly raw because of the breeze

Mooro

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123042148#Comment_123042148

Thanks very much Supercell.

DayInTheBog

Serious thaw on here in North Kerry. 6C as I write. Very little snow left in the driveway

WolfeEire

One sign of normality returning at the tail end of this cold spell is the restoration of electricity to 59,000 properties in counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Carlow, Laois and Wicklow that were impacted by heavy snowfall last weekend. Kudos to the ESB and contractor crews.

Robwindstorm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123042021#Comment_123042021

I agree with supercell. They are stunningly beautiful photos. You'll have to archive those. Well done Mooro

mcburns07

Today is the third day in the last 7 that has been a wall to wall washout in Cork, miserable.

WolfeEire

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c'est fini

Robwindstorm

Before you depart back into the woods Wolf, I would like to congratulate yourself and Meteorite along with kermit, for the enormous input you put into the cold spell. Well done, until your next feast!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123042432#Comment_123042432

.Donegal.

Katesbridge had a strange temperature change overnight.

-5.3 4am

0.1c 5am

-3.8c 6am

The last station below 0c is no more on wow Ballybofey 0.1c . I checked it there now and the last time it was 4.1c plus was New Year’s Day. Reached 4c briefly on the 3d and below that this past week. 19m asl

xhomelezz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123042432#Comment_123042432

Don't be so quick..😁

Mooro

And the last few of the current cold spell. These are from this morning at Charleville Castle in Tullamore. I can't read weather charts and barely understand the more knowledgeable contributors on here but I do enjoy the build up to these events and the shared experiences once the cold weather hits. Here's to the next one although I do believe there will be quite a few damp 'squids' before then 😀

Oíche Na Gaoithe Móire

It's probable Reeling in the Years 2025 will begin with the Snowfall. It's possible there won't be as big a snowfall for the rest of the decade, 4/5 years.

My thoughts on snow. I love the fresh fall. It's so bright and pure looking. After a few days frost puts a crust and it loses its lustre.

I'm mostly in Portlaoise for a decade now. Prior to that I'd 40 years at home, very high ground, with frequent snowfall, even in milder winters. The excitement of no primary or secondary school. This was followed by the snowed in period where you couldn't move.

There was hardship during this time, feeding cattle silage and hay. You'd be using bare hands on a lot of machinery and implements. As you got older and literally 'weathered' you could take the cold. As a child, the flesh was soft and you'd have to stick out the chores until you got inside.

I've a lot of memories of running around with hot water in kettles thawing frozen pipes. Breaking water ponds with sledgehammer and directing cattle to water. Tractors slow to start, despite having antifreeze in was another.

By the end of the week you met only your parents and siblings, and really wanted to get out, cabin fever.

The thaw was the worst part, grey, dirty, gloomy and sloppy. And still dangerous with ice around. Often more accidents happened in the thaw when people forgot themselves walking and driving.

Elmer Blooker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123040454#Comment_123040454

A completely over the top post, the problem is the car culture of today when people have to drive in order to get a litre of milk or a loaf of bread, years ago when there were real winters people just got with it.

Kaybaykwah

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123040271#Comment_123040271

Where I live in Canada, the earth freezes down to 5 1/2 feet, and the sewer mains are below that line, so that it is considerably warmer the lower you go. That heat is rising to warm the manhole (ugh! Sorry, personhole) cover.

Foggy Jew

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123042756#Comment_123042756

How right you are. Ah!!! The good old days. Women, pregnant, barefoot and in the kitchen. Baking their own bread. Milking the cows. Caring for litters of kids. Trudging to the well for water & lugging buckets of it back home. Washing clothes by hand. Emptying potties from under the beds. Wringing the necks of their own chicken to provide the makings of a dinner. Simpler, happier times. Since the internal combustion engine was invented, women have simply gone to the dogs.

munsterlegend

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123042618#Comment_123042618

Yes great input from the regulars here. While I have had enough of snow for now I am sure in another couple of weeks I'll be hoping for more again.

Bishop of hope

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123042714#Comment_123042714

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These are from early March last year, it depends on where you live in suppose.

I'm in North longford and we only got a dusting this time really, but we usually get a heavy fall at some time each year. It depends on whether you are affected or not as to how you're affected. It didn't last but a day, but we had 9 inches and we could build snowmen. I'm 140m asl.

KanyeSouthEast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123042756#Comment_123042756

incorrect. Footpaths were absolutely lethal and untreated people couldn’t get to the roads from estates to even attempt to drive not to mind walk.

Cluedo Monopoly

I noticed loads of people left their outdoor Xmas lights on for the past week. They looked very nice with the frosty cold nights.

Dazler97

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123042986#Comment_123042986

Yes including me I'm taking mine down tomorrow there still a little frozen even though it's 2c here

Robwindstorm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123042714#Comment_123042714

That was me this morning 😁 . Bucketing water from an IBC to the cattle while trying to defrost their drinker with hot water. Then the old MF 165 won't start to feed out bales so I had to take out the battery to give it a quick boost, all the while I was clock watching as I had to collect the little one from school.

JanuarySnowstor

A few takeaways from the cold spell

-- Most were not calling for a Red warning on here. I was one of the few who was. The reality is where the Orange warning was easily exceeded red criteria. Plenty were caught out and had to abandon cars in places like Charleville.

-- The ecm did very well. It was showing copious amounts of snow in the South Midlands. The bbc (once the go to for accurate forecasts) was very poor. Their graphics the night before did not adequately show the risk.

--It rivalled Storm Emma, which is an extraordinary feat in itself.

-- Some of the most wintry weather of the last 50 years has come in the previous 14 years. Global warming is not all about mild!!

.Donegal.

Sheep buried under drifts. Video with sound at bottom of page

https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2025/0110/1490109-sheep-mountain-rescue/

Seadin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123040850#Comment_123040850

I put a chimney into my plans in 2018 and got planning permission to build a house with a chimney. When my builders were building the house they were giving out to me that I was wasting my time and money putting a chimney into the house that I wouldn't need it with all the heat in the new build. All I said at the time was it's better to have it than be looking for it. I told them about storm Darwin in 2014 and having no power for over a week. Told them I need a backup here can't do without it.

So then few years later my daughter was born and about two weeks after her birth we had an issue with our heat pump and had no heat. We couldn't get a serviceman out to our heat pump for 4 weeks, there was a few weeks of frost at that stage and the house had got cold and trying to keep the house warm for a two week old baby was so hard. I swore to myself I'd fit a stove first chance I got after that and I did it immediately.

Last week we lost power and i lit the stove and was able to boil water, porridge and boil eggs with the stove. It kept the house cosy until we got the power back. I also got a gas ring and bottle to cook some dinner. Everyone should have some form of backup. The one thing I didn't have was enough salt but Il put bags of it into the shed going forward, it might be handy one day and maybe a few 25l containers and have them full of water if you know something abnormal is coming like a storm, heat wave or snowfall.

DOCARCH

Mod Note: Let's not end the thread with insults!

Duvet Day

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123043137#Comment_123043137

I watched that earlier and can't stop thinking about it all day. Would they have brought them down the mountain if there had been a red warning?

Elmer Blooker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123042951#Comment_123042951

that’s understandable if someone is elderly or in bad health but winter weather shouldn’t be too much of a problem for the able-bodied, I’m old enough to remember the drifts in 1982.

cnocbui

It was with relief I realised it was over, when the postie dropped off a package.

Hontou

@Mooro Thank you for putting up those incredibly beautiful photos. What a talent. A wonderful finale to the cold spell.

giveitholly

Wedding guests stranded in a hotel for days

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41551501.html