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Which extreme weather event would you prefer?

  • 26-11-2016 6:10pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭


    Thought I'd run a poll just out of curiosity as to people's extreme weather preferences.

    Which event would you enjoy most?

    1: Prolonged period of frost
    2:Prolonged heatwave
    3:Heavy snowfall
    4:Severe wind storm
    5:Severe thunderstorm

    Which type of extreme weather event would you enjoy most? 125 votes

    Prolonged period of frost
    0%
    Prolonged heatwave
    15%
    PopoutmanDiscoStuJohn macDannoxtal191jimmyjim11DOCARCHislanderreEmmehotwhiskeybrembo26mountainy mandmc17MattHeldersMrBobjoujoujoupqdvdplayersjb25currants 19 votes
    Heavy snowfall
    27%
    _Kaiser_John mactuxy[Deleted User]DannoRikandMars Barjimmyjim11Sabre ManDOCARCHDeedsieronnie3585DeankSinbad311RubyKeyebrows63Jpmarndmc17alphBsal 34 votes
    Severe windstorm
    52%
    GonzoDiscoStuSupercellStarkVillain[Deleted User]kenmcDannoBatesydsaint1xtal191brian_rbkoinkelyTrogdorsnowstreamsdmapreludeTabnabsjimmyjim11KurumbaZzippy 66 votes
    Severe thunderstorm
    4%
    DOCARCHdmc17ReatijoujoujouOneiric 3Meteorite58 6 votes


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,227 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Severe windstorm
    Drawn between heavy snowfall and prolonged heatwave.

    Love all 5 though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭dexter647


    Severe windstorm
    3 and 5 together would be best by far:)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭Stealthfins


    As long as it's not cold rain,anything will do.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Severe thunderstorm
    I voted for all 5!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    I'd vote in order of preference: 5,2,1,3,4 but would enjoy them all.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,867 ✭✭✭sparrowcar


    I went with severe thunderstorm as they are intensely exciting for a short period but life returns to normal not long after they start.

    With any of the others being "prolonged" as per the poll they become a nuesance after a week. Snow is amazing but the transport and country comes to a stand still and the other side is sleepless nights during a heatwave.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Heavy snowfall
    Heatwave but only with low humidity!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,254 ✭✭✭✭km79


    Heatwave but must be in July where it belongs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,207 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    a good wind storm, watching the approaching system on satellite , reading the reports on here "lights flickering now" . putting on the stove and settling down for the night. Belmullet gusting up around 80 knots


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,959 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    Severe windstorm
    voted for the snow, easy choice. Heatwave would be second and thunder third. Ive no interest in rain or wind, we get those all the time.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Thunder thunder thunder thunderstorm ho for me.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,288 ✭✭✭mickmackey1


    Severe windstorm
    Didn't realise how difficult the choice would be, went for snowfall in the end.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    Severe thunderstorm
    Severe thunderstorm tops for me. :)

    2nd would be severe windstorm. I recall vividly the anticipation that built before some of the big ones in the 90s, which usual hit by night and by which time the electricity had gone.

    3rd would be prolonged snow but this would jump to 2nd if accompanied by severe winds.

    I don't care much for excessive heat or cold to be honest as this often come via very boring weather. I like my skies active :)

    New Moon



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Severe windstorm
    Snow, but I'd love to see/be inside a tornado (in a safe manner for everyone)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭esposito


    Severe windstorm
    Definitely heavy snowfall first followed by prolonged heatwave in second


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,928 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Heavy snowfall
    I can't abide the cold, and frost/freezing just brings out the idiots on the roads and makes it a pain to get anywhere

    Warm and dry so, or at least warm-ish!


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,752 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Prolonged heatwaves lead to water shortages so no and bad for the elderly and very young.
    The 1985 thunderstorms were too extreme and there was a similar type event in 1986, I think people did die, plus lots of livestock died.
    I don't like severe windstorms as they do kill and cause serious damage.

    It can be nice having a lot of snow and being an independent state since the state doesn't care about rural people when they are cut off from society unless you are pregnant with a possible future tax payer, or a tax payer who is sick and might die...
    I would not like a 1947 event as people would die.

    I don't like prolonged frost as water ends up freezing as temperatures stay too low for too long.

    For me everything in moderation, as problems arise if too hot and dry, too cold, too snowy, too windy, thunderstorms too extreme.
    It all seems fine when others are affected and not oneself.
    So I will not vote as everything in moderation, when things get extreme, there are negative consequences.
    Like last year we had a windstorm, but the repairs- was it to an ESB pole or telephone pole ended up in a death.
    So for me - none of them. It doesn't stop extreme weather, and we have to take what comes...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,954 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Heavy snowfall for me. I would dearly love to experience something akin to the events of December 16 2010 again. Heavy snowfall for hours ,with the snow piling up on the ground, and no danger of it turning back to rain or sleet, would be brilliant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Jpmarn


    Heavy snowfall
    A good summer heatwave followed by a spectacular night time thunderstorm.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 532 ✭✭✭511


    Heavy snowfall
    Heatwave because I like tanning myself. When I was a teenager and younger than that, snow was my favourite.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭thomasj


    Severe windstorm
    talking of extreme events, saudi arabia has had recent snowfall..................


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Severe windstorm
    this time of year.. extreme snowfall

    but i'd love to see a severe storm or even a tornado before i pop my clogs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,421 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    Heavy snowfall
    I wonder how different the poll results would be if this topic was created in April/May


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,227 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Severe windstorm
    Rikand wrote: »
    I wonder how different the poll results would be if this topic was created in April/May

    Or in January 2011! (After the 2010 cold snap)


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