Prelude to Cold Weather/Snow - Sun 25th Feb (Onwards)

mobil 222 · 20-02-2018 10:59AM

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

Our local authority bought brand new snow ploughs after the 2010 snow, they've been in storage since so looking like they'll finally get a run out.

Battery charging at the moment

davidsr20 · 20-02-2018 11:04AM

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

Our local authority bought brand new snow ploughs after the 2010 snow, they've been in storage since so looking like they'll finally get a run out.

The ones got in Galway got an outing already this year

20-02-2018 11:06AM

My only concern is for the electricity going out. Is that a possibility?

Care for my dad and wondering if I need to get a camping stove. Have his electric bed sorted (thanks to a kind boardsie who told me what to do), have back boiler and just run the hot water off to stop it busting. Carer’s come in 3 times a day but I’ll manage without them so they can deal with people who are on their own.

Am I taking all this too seriously?

lawred2 · 20-02-2018 11:07AM

Are there any traditional forecast sites predicting what's being talked about here?

I've checked a few and I don't see any mention of snow or indeed even any particularly cold weather for next week.

For instance - the met office

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/gc7x92466#?date=2018-02-25

diarmuid79 · 20-02-2018 11:08AM

Freezing temperatures and snow showers forecast yet again

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/freezing-temperatures-and-snow-showers-forecast-yet-again-36622685.html

Starting to report on this now

20-02-2018 11:09AM

bogman_bass wrote: »

It's obvious from reading this that none of you have had the joy of trying to feed cattle in the snow

Indeed, I have always found the cheerleading and enthusiasm for bad weather on these boards a little disquieting.

This weather, if it happens, will being misery and danger to many people.

lawred2 · 20-02-2018 11:10AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Indeed, I have always found the cheerleading and enthusiasm for bad weather on these boards a little disquieting.

This weather, if it happens, will being misery and danger to many people.

and joy and merriment to many others....

snow is a novelty in Ireland and for many it brings out the inner child. It never lasts that long.

dacogawa · 20-02-2018 11:11AM

GFS seems to have backed off a bit (or slowed down) on this run.

Edit (seems like it slowed down)

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kod87 · 20-02-2018 11:12AM

lawred2 wrote: »

and joy and merriment to many others....

snow is a novelty in Ireland and for many it brings out the inner child. It never lasts that long.

..and it doesn't matter what we hope for anyway, nature will do its own thing

Akrasia · 20-02-2018 11:12AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Indeed, I have always found the cheerleading and enthusiasm for bad weather on these boards a little disquieting.

This weather, if it happens, will being misery and danger to many people.

And endless damp mild overcast weather brings misery to many other people.

Malayalam · 20-02-2018 11:19AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Indeed, I have always found the cheerleading and enthusiasm for bad weather on these boards a little disquieting.

This weather, if it happens, will being misery and danger to many people.

I suppose it is good though in the sense that those of us living remotely do stock up when we see these threads. Coal and food and gas, and so on. And it does look lovely, and there is peace to be found in it - the retreat to the cave, the general hush. The loss of earnings though, is a troublesome and stressful part of being snowed in. Still, nature will do what she wants, and I am glad of the fore-warning.

dacogawa · 20-02-2018 11:24AM

And sped right back up! -12 850 hPa from Scotland to northern France to Cork, that is a fascinating chart...

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yellowlabrador · 20-02-2018 11:27AM

In 1991,in Wales, my gas bottles got too cold to function. Keep this in mind as most cookers on bottles gas have the bottles outside. I'm off to buy a new hot water bottle

Akrasia · 20-02-2018 11:28AM

Malayalam wrote: »

I suppose it is good though in the sense that those of us living remotely do stock up when we see these threads. Coal and food and gas, and so on. And it does look lovely, and there is peace to be found in it - the retreat to the cave, the general hush. The loss of earnings though, is a troublesome and stressful part of being snowed in. Still, nature will do what she wants, and I am glad of the fore-warning.

I'm stocking up on sleds

Actually, it's an old brass tea tray

aisling86 · 20-02-2018 11:30AM

Akrasia wrote:

I'm stocking up on sleds

Let me know where you find the best ones! I'm also currently looking!!

J6P · 20-02-2018 11:30AM

6z...another ridiculous run. A foot of snow for dublin between the 25th and 28th?

Stephen Hawkins football boots · 20-02-2018 11:31AM

diarmuid79 wrote: »

Freezing temperatures and snow showers forecast yet again

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/freezing-temperatures-and-snow-showers-forecast-yet-again-36622685.html

Starting to report on this now

It's the indo though 1 week a heatwave next week a blizzard they are bound to get it right sometime

Cantona's Collars · 20-02-2018 11:32AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Indeed, I have always found the cheerleading and enthusiasm for bad weather on these boards a little disquieting.

This weather, if it happens, will being misery and danger to many people.

Ireland doesn't deal we'll with cold. Heavy snow is a rare event. As the saying goes "fail to prepare, prepare to fail".
Make the necessary preparations and you should be ok.
I've a mate from NE of the states and as soon as snow starts, anyone with a truck sticks on a snowplough and I the roads are cleared. Even bin lorries have them.
Another thing from 2010 that I remember was people not clearing snow and ice from outside their homes and businesses because the notion got round that if someone fell there you could be sued as you "interfered with the nature of the surface". This left footpaths in a lethal condition.
Myself and some neighbours cleared the snow from our paths and a lot of the road,one fella stood in his door looking at us and said it was too cold to help so we left his uncleared and didn't bother to help as he slid his BMW all over the street before abandoning it.
If we do get the heavy snow that's predicted,just look after the more vulnerable folk,even if it's just bringing in a bucket of coal for them.

Standman · 20-02-2018 11:33AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Indeed, I have always found the cheerleading and enthusiasm for bad weather on these boards a little disquieting.

This weather, if it happens, will being misery and danger to many people.

Not to get too philosophical about it, but there's nothing like unusually severe weather to burst your little personal bubble and remind you that you're living on a wild and wonderful planet.

There can be more of a sense of togetherness at times like these too, something that is lacking for many these days.

I don't think anyone is excited about the misery, quite the opposite in fact.

monty_python · 20-02-2018 11:38AM

Fuc.k it anyway lads. I've been traveling for 3 months and looking forward to getting home

Tabnabs · 20-02-2018 11:41AM

I remember the 2010 event that M.T. Cranium so accurately predicted. I was standing in 53 Degrees North, two weeks before it was due, puzzling over which tobaggan type to buy and the look I got from the staff member when I said "some guy on the internet says it's going to snow".

Donegal Storm · 20-02-2018 11:43AM

J6P wrote: »

6z...another ridiculous run. A foot of snow for dublin between the 25th and 28th?

You'd want lighter winds and lower pressure for high snow totals, it's impossible to gauge what would actually happen in that setup this far out but my best guess would be light and fast moving streamers that vary in location frequently with small shifts in wind. Temperatures +2 to -1C by day and around -3 to -6C overnight. Windchill would be the main feature.

Interesting but still the best part of a week away, gonna be a long wait

RobertKK · 20-02-2018 11:43AM

Yr.no for my location in FI is saying 12mm of precipitation to fall as snow on Thursday week and the highs to reach -1c and lows of -4c.

Kilkenny especially the higher ground usually does well from the an easterly. It was always something my father dreaded, but he was around for 1947 and the experience of that I think both haunted and fascinated him. There was no electricity and no heating like we have now, and food was still rationed after the war.

At the moment it is important to keep informed and be prepared as we get closer and with details in a more reliable time frame. I did tell family about the possibilities and all one can do is wait and see, then prepare as necessary.

M.T. Cranium · 20-02-2018 11:43AM

Paris will get an Eiffel lot of snow.

icesnowfrost · 20-02-2018 11:44AM

weather is the weather. if u like cold and snow or mild and wet or hot and sunny. People cannot be made feel bad for hoping for the type of weather they prefer.
All the hoping in the world won't make it snow just coz I want it to. so for the people giving out about other people wanting it to snow, please stop the stupidity of what your saying.
Also can we get back to talking about the weather and not about the the cattle or hardships.

gerrybhoy · 20-02-2018 11:44AM

monty_python wrote: »

Fuc.k it anyway lads. I've been traveling for 3 months and looking forward to getting home

Another week away wont do you no harm:D

M.T. Cranium · 20-02-2018 11:49AM

Day 13 ... Unsatisfied with his first effort, Putin cranked the weather machine to MAX COLD and sent a second wave.

gerrybhoy · 20-02-2018 11:50AM

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Paris will get an Eiffel lot of snow.

jambofc · 20-02-2018 11:51AM

wow the charts are pure snowmaggedon

monty_python · 20-02-2018 11:52AM

gerrybhoy wrote: »

monty_python wrote: »

Fuc.k it anyway lads. I've been traveling for 3 months and looking forward to getting home

Another week away wont do you no harm:D

It will with an empty bank account

Prelude to Cold Weather/Snow - Sun 25th Feb (Onwards)

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