Snow

dxhound2005 · 10-12-2017 12:34AM

Northern Ireland / The North of Ireland / The Six Counties gets more snow than we do. It is a common sight to see Northern cars covered in snow when there is none in the South.

It is a well known fact that NI broke away from Antarctica and drifted north until it collided with the Twentysix Counties. Hence the border and more snow in the North.

corner of hells · 10-12-2017 12:37AM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Northern Ireland / The North of Ireland / The Six Counties gets more snow than we do. It is a common sight to see Northern cars covered in snow when there is none in the South.

It is a well known fact that NI broke away from Antarctica and drifted north until it collided with the Twentysix Counties. Hence the border and more snow in the North.

Is that why there's no nuns in the North ?

TheRiverman · 10-12-2017 12:41AM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Northern Ireland / The North of Ireland / The Six Counties gets more snow than we do. It is a common sight to see Northern cars covered in snow when there is none in the South.

It is a well known fact that NI broke away from Antarctica and drifted north until it collided with the Twentysix Counties. Hence the border and more snow in the North.

Must be time for Ulster to say No to snow.

king size mars bar · 10-12-2017 12:41AM

ill bang you OP wrote: »

yellow snow, tastes nice, i recommend it.

Don't eat yellow snow

Tin Foil Hat · 10-12-2017 12:42AM

About 7 degrees in An Rinn, Co. Waterford at the moment and absolutely pissing rain.

king size mars bar · 10-12-2017 01:59AM

Lashing rain in Kilkenny

endacl · 10-12-2017 02:07AM

Jonas Ancient Technique wrote: »

They've changed the forecast in the past hour from us having drifting 8cm snow to no snow at all.

Who says there’s never any good news these days?

Kuva · 10-12-2017 02:59AM

PandaPoo wrote: »

None in Bray. Nothing good ever happens in Bray

What about the air show?

Kuva · 10-12-2017 03:02AM

Jonas Ancient Technique wrote: »

They've changed the forecast in the past hour from us having drifting 8cm snow to no snow at all.

Same story for decades, ie - not a clue.

Hallowed · 10-12-2017 03:19AM

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

About 7 degrees in An Rinn, Co. Waterford at the moment and absolutely pissing rain.

An Rinn abû

Galwayguy35 · 10-12-2017 09:15AM

Lot's of it here.

ELM327 · 10-12-2017 09:17AM

No snow in meath or north dublin this morning. Driving in to work at 5.45am I was expecting a nice bout of snow but it was raining and I didnt even have to defrost the car.

theteal · 10-12-2017 09:20AM

East Greater London getting a good covering now. The look on my 1yr olds face is quality.....cats don't think much of it though

Forgive the terrible camera

relax carry on · 10-12-2017 09:28AM

Bit white here this morning.

NIMAN · 10-12-2017 09:51AM

Yellow warning, orange warning, red warning, end of the world.

I hate the nonsense around our weather. I bet the Scandinavians don't partake in all this, with weather many times worse than ours.

If this is an orange level warning, then yellow must be about +10c with chance of sunburn.

Cantona's Collars · 10-12-2017 09:55AM

Kuva wrote: »

What about the air show?

That's above Bray.

Galwayguy35 · 10-12-2017 09:57AM

NIMAN wrote: »

Yellow warning, orange warning, red warning, end of the world.

I hate the nonsense around our weather. I bet the Scandinavians don't partake in all this, with weather many times worse than ours.

If this is an orange level warning, then yellow must be about +10c with chance of sunburn.

True.

Reminds me of when we got the last bit of snow in 2010, the Polish lads next door were laughing at everyone getting all worked up over it when they have a lot more snow every year and just get on with it.

Alf Veedersane · 10-12-2017 10:02AM

It's because they're set up to deal with snow. Ireland doesn't which is why so many people were affected in 2010 and 2011.

So how the Poles, Canadians or Scandinavians react isn't really relevant.

Snow ceased to be interesting when it stopped meaning days off school.

dr.fuzzenstein · 10-12-2017 10:06AM

Greetings from Allgäu Boardsies.

appledrop · 10-12-2017 10:06AM

NIMAN wrote: »

Yellow warning, orange warning, red warning, end of the world.

I hate the nonsense around our weather. I bet the Scandinavians don't partake in all this, with weather many times worse than ours.

If this is an orange level warning, then yellow must be about +10c with chance of sunburn.

I'm getting really sick of all this weather warnings by Met Eireann. It's lashing rain here in Dublin this morning + they had it's part of weather warnings. It's a joke. I do understand that some parts have snow but Dublin accounts for about 1/3 of population so please get our forecast right. It's like the boy who cried wolf. One day it might be bad but I won't believe them.

Alf Veedersane · 10-12-2017 10:12AM

appledrop wrote: »

I'm getting really sick of all this weather warnings by Met Eireann. It's lashing rain here in Dublin this morning + they had it's part of weather warnings. It's a joke. I do understand that some parts have snow but Dublin accounts for about 1/3 of population so please get our forecast right. It's like the boy who cried wolf. One day it might be bad but I won't believe them.

So what exactly did you do on the basis of the weather warning that has you put out?

DubJJ · 10-12-2017 10:36AM

I have to admit that people moaning about weather warnings really annoys me. Regarding the Hurricane, some of you may have been lucky not to have been affected but plenty of us were, I'm in North County Wicklow and we had trees down everywhere and were without power for over 16hrs. The fact that it didn't hit parts of Dublin too badly was more luck than anything, I'm sure that the families of the people who died don't think it was exaggerated.
Regarding the snow, there are plenty of areas that have been affected and the day is still young. If you are fortunate enough not to be affected you should count yourself lucky, the same people would be moaning if Met Eireann didn't give us any warning and then they trapped in the snow somewhere.

ToddyDoody · 10-12-2017 10:48AM

There'snow snow.

lawred2 · 10-12-2017 10:49AM

appledrop wrote: »

I'm getting really sick of all this weather warnings by Met Eireann. It's lashing rain here in Dublin this morning + they had it's part of weather warnings. It's a joke. I do understand that some parts have snow but Dublin accounts for about 1/3 of population so please get our forecast right. It's like the boy who cried wolf. One day it might be bad but I won't believe them.

It was removed from the snow warning yesterday morning

Wibbs · 10-12-2017 10:54AM

No snow where I am in Dublin, just pissy rain. Thankfully.

Snow is great when you're a kid or have kids or are young, mobile and urban. Hell, I like seeing it myself. It can be a right pain in the arse for people in isolated areas, the elderly, those who have need of medical attention and folks who can't take a couple of snow days off and have to go out in it. Even light dustings can turn out deadly for such people and will usually go unreported(in 2010, I personally know of two people who died because emergency services couldn't get to them in time).

Worse when Ireland and the Irish are woefully unprepared for any what we see as extreme weather as we're so (again thankfully) used to our wonderfully mild climate.

appledrop · 10-12-2017 11:05AM

lawred2 wrote: »

It was removed from the snow warning yesterday morning

No it wasn't still status yellow for Dublin yesterday evening.

JPF82 · 10-12-2017 11:05AM

Personally, I'm glad for the weather warnings. Was down visiting my family in Roscommon and came back yesterday evening instead of staying over. Glad I did because they got loads of snow last night and travel from there today would be a nightmare. Pity we got no snow in Maynooth though.

Alf Veedersane · 10-12-2017 11:08AM

appledrop wrote: »

No it wasn't still status yellow for Dublin yesterday evening.

And how did it negatively affect you exactly?

appledrop · 10-12-2017 11:15AM

People weekends are important to them. Thankfully we had a great day wrapped up in park yesterday with my little boy. If we had left it to today to have fun in 'snow' would be going nowwhere in miserable dark rainy day.

Alf Veedersane · 10-12-2017 11:21AM

appledrop wrote: »

People weekends are important to them. Thankfully we had a great day wrapped up in park yesterday with my little boy. If we had left it to today to have fun in 'snow' would be going nowwhere in miserable dark rainy day.

So it didn't.

You do realise weather forecasting isn't an exact science and that they have a responsibility to make sure people in certain counties are prepared for what the models predict may happen?

"I might not have got to the park" vs potentially saving someone's life?

Snow

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