Snow

lawred2 · 10-12-2017 11:25AM

appledrop wrote: »

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

The yellow warning wasn't for snow..

Wibbs · 10-12-2017 11:33AM

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

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

Aye. Bloody hell but the level of unaware self involvement in that is something to behold. We saw similar with the storm warning a while back. Oh I'm inconvenienced slightly so it's a disaster.

DubJJ · 10-12-2017 11:36AM

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.

What a pathetic reason to moan, "I may have gone to the park" in a yellow/orange weather warning?

LadyMacBeth_ · 10-12-2017 11:37AM

Lia_lia wrote: »

Raining in Cork city. Never seen snow here before!

It hardly ever snows in Cork

namloc1980 · 10-12-2017 11:41AM

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

It hardly ever snows in Cork

Thankfully! Had to travel today and snow and ice ain't fun. Some of the lads on the weather forum are gutted we didn't get blizzards.

server down · 10-12-2017 11:43AM

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.

Yes but the forecast was for no snow in Dublin.

http://m.met.ie/weather-warnings.aspx?t=National

PTH2009 · 10-12-2017 12:07PM

snowing heavy enough in Waterford City now

city and county meltdown in 3,2,1

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 10-12-2017 12:18PM

Water John wrote: »

But Srameen above, tells us there'll be no snow.

And despite Met Eireann saying, this time yesterday, that this area would have a minimum of 8cm there's not even a hint of snow about this morning. Thank goodness.

MadYaker · 10-12-2017 12:26PM

Yup

DubJJ · 10-12-2017 12:40PM

Nice windows!!

_Kaiser_ · 10-12-2017 12:49PM

Snowing all morning here in Laois and no sign of stopping yet.

Collie D · 10-12-2017 12:49PM

anna080 wrote: »

On the other hand, doggy paw prints in the snow are the cutest.

The main reason I wanted to wake up to a load of snow was to take the dog out in it. She has only seen it once before and had great craic bouncing around, chasing snowballs and getting a shock when she had them in her mouth...and melting the snow with her wee

looksee · 10-12-2017 12:54PM

Been snowing in big flakes for about 2 hours on Waterford coast. Not really settling though.

Meanwhile I want to know why RTE keep showing that pic of two very well dressed, in co-ordinating colours, small children hauling a red suitcase into a frozen winter wasteland. Where are they going, why were they sent? Whats in the suitcase?

Edit: It seems to have gone, evidently they have enough 'real' snow pics at this stage.

An tUasal C · 10-12-2017 12:54PM

Settling down in Waterford.

Water John · 10-12-2017 02:58PM

Ah Srameen, I didn't realise Met Eireann issue you with a personalised forecast. My mistake. They forecast snow for you and then changed it, on an update.
The warning across the midlands was correct. Pinpointing where two air masses meet and the interaction, is imprecise at best.

The_Valeyard · 10-12-2017 03:21PM

All im getting is hailstones in Dublin

Berserker · 10-12-2017 03:32PM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

All im getting is hailstones in Dublin

Same here, no sign of snow.

SlipperyPeople · 10-12-2017 04:03PM

no snow in dublin is an outrage!!!

was in galway for 2010

and now in dublin :mad:

_Dara_ · 10-12-2017 04:14PM

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.

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

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.

Because Scandinavia gets this weather without fail every year all winter long, they can justify investing in infrastructure to cope. But here, it’s rare so we can’t. Therefore we need warnings for similar weather as more caution is required. The winters they get in Scandinavia aren’t relevant to us.

_Dara_ · 10-12-2017 04:22PM

Wibbs wrote: »

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.

Not unprepared really. There are some measures in place. More like cannot justify the huge investment needed for weather we don’t even get every winter and even when we do, it’s a handful of days.

PLL · 10-12-2017 04:42PM

_Dara_ wrote: »

Because Scandinavia gets this weather without fail every year all winter long, they can justify investing in infrastructure to cope. But here, it’s rare so we can’t. Therefore we need warnings for similar weather as more caution is required. The winters they get in Scandinavia aren’t relevant to us.

Really there should just be a national 'ACTUALLY SLOW THE FK DOWN' warning.

Rain, hail, wind, blinding sunshine everyone is still speeding and tailgating. Black ice: maybe it is time to take the warnings seriously? Maybe?

RayM · 10-12-2017 05:42PM

I've got 12 inches here.

No snow though.

Water John · 10-12-2017 05:50PM

Not of much use to you, with the bad back.

DanMurphy · 10-12-2017 05:54PM

Lots of kids building Snowpersons hereabouts.

LadyMacBeth_ · 10-12-2017 06:08PM

Water John wrote: »

Not of much use to you, with the bad back.

I beg to differ, using men as human dildos is great craic, just getting them to lie there and then hopping on top for a ride

RayM · 10-12-2017 06:25PM

In addition to being a great human dildo, I double-up as a handy draught excluder for those cold winter nights.

irishman86 · 10-12-2017 06:33PM

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.

Is there a way to vote for the most self entitled post of the year :rolleyes:

10-12-2017 06:47PM

DanMurphy wrote: »

Lots of kids building Snowpersons hereabouts.

Snowcismen

MonkieSocks · 10-12-2017 07:48PM

I Hate The Snow:mad:

Galwayguy35 · 11-12-2017 06:58PM

Travelling on the secondary roads this morning was terrible, no grit on them at all and the snow was frozen solid from the frost.

And nothing done with them today either so the same story tomorrow morning.

Snow

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