Severe Winter Weather, Snow/Ice - Sun 25th Feb (Onwards) READ MOD NOTE POST #1

davidsr20 · 25-02-2018 12:41PM

What’s with all the Joanna this week where’s all our other weather presenters ? Does the older women not do weather any more.

YanSno · 25-02-2018 12:41PM

Expect the first few light showers of snow on the east coast tomorrow afternoon. Based on current charts

Reckless Abandonment · 25-02-2018 12:41PM

squarecircles wrote: »

Remember when Peter Griffin was secretly a teenage girl,giddy,lying on bed,twirling his feet in the air,with a mobile....yeah that's me now.

Snow madness has started

Lumi · 25-02-2018 12:45PM

tiegan wrote: »

Still giddy with excitement here, spending the day preparing for what might be. Just wanted to give a big shout out to Kermit for starting this thread, and a bigger one to the mods who keep it on track. Especially when the thread is moving very fast at times!! Don't know how you all manage work, sleep, weather and families (not necessarily in that order) - Fair play to ye guys, you know who you are.

TheAnalyst_ wrote: »

Are you soft in the head? It's weather.

Mod Note
An unnecessary response TheAnalyst, particularly as this is a forum for Weather enthusiasts.
Play nicely please!
Thanks

dacogawa · 25-02-2018 12:46PM

sryanbruen wrote: »

It will be interesting to see Thursday/Friday unfold. These are the deepest snow depths at some stations around Ireland courtesy of Met Éireann since the 1950s.

I really thought a few of them would be higher like Kilkenny and Shannon, will be very interesting to see them at the end of the week if things pan out.

Rekop dog · 25-02-2018 12:49PM

Bit of rain first on Tuesday predicted... doubt it will stick after that.

daheff · 25-02-2018 12:49PM

Reserved a snow shovel in argos until monday. See what weather looks like mon morning before committing to the 6eur spend!!

Jimbob1977 · 25-02-2018 12:50PM

sryanbruen wrote: »

It will be interesting to see Thursday/Friday unfold. These are the deepest snow depths at some stations around Ireland courtesy of Met Éireann since the 1950s.

https://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/SnowfallAnal.pdf

2 inches is the heaviest snowfall in Shannon for 50 years. Seems very slight

gerrybhoy · 25-02-2018 12:51PM

MissMoc wrote: »

I’m so confused, today is the warmest temps I have seen for weeks, almost 10 degrees

Calm before the storm..

kittyn · 25-02-2018 12:52PM

Rekop dog wrote: »

Bit of rain first on Tuesday predicted... doubt it will stick after that.

20th Dec 2010....... Started out as rain and the ground was saturated, turned to snow at about 10.30 and by 4pm the road to access where I live was closed off by the Gardai so I couldn't get home due to the snow .........

This week will be a very busy and fascinating one .........

Dodge · 25-02-2018 12:52PM

sryanbruen wrote: »

It will be interesting to see Thursday/Friday unfold. These are the deepest snow depths at some stations around Ireland courtesy of Met Éireann since the 1950s.

https://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/SnowfallAnal.pdf

They could do with renaming that PDF. Just sayin’

gluppers · 25-02-2018 12:53PM

m17 wrote: »

It's going to be the worst snowfall since 1982 here is dublin back then

Stop getting people's hopes up. I reckon we're in for a few showers

gerrybhoy · 25-02-2018 12:54PM

Dodge wrote: »

They could do with renaming that PDF. Just sayin’

Ha ha just clocked that #bottomsup

gerrybhoy · 25-02-2018 12:55PM

gluppers wrote: »

Stop getting people's hopes up. I reckon we're in for a few showers

A good few heavy showers

ThaitaniumM · 25-02-2018 12:58PM

sryanbruen wrote: »

It will be interesting to see Thursday/Friday unfold. These are the deepest snow depths at some stations around Ireland courtesy of Met Éireann since the 1950s.

https://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/SnowfallAnal.pdf

I reckon Shannon's record will be broken :P

Villain · 25-02-2018 12:58PM

gluppers wrote: »

Stop getting people's hopes up. I reckon we're in for a few showers

It’s good to manage expectations, you will get a nice surprise then

Vxlks · 25-02-2018 01:00PM

gerrybhoy wrote: »

A good few heavy showers

^^^ you need to remember this won't be "a few showers". Many reasons imply this because A: for (Dublin anyway) it won't be a crappy westerly bringing wet snow showers that are halfway gonna die out, these will be constant snow showers forming in th east getting heavier and more persistent due to lake effect snow, also all the factors out into it this time make it something memorable like the 2 SSW, AO and NAO index winds gone into negative, the strong easterly we already have too. Don't underestimate this time just because the last few weren't good. Remember, every winter is different!

sjb25 · 25-02-2018 01:00PM

Dodge wrote: »

They could do with renaming that PDF. Just sayin’

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m17 · 25-02-2018 01:00PM

gluppers wrote: »

Stop getting people's hopes up. I reckon we're in for a few showers

What forecast are you looking at there's going to be a blast of snow on the east coast and the Midlands can't wait to see all the brilliant pics over the next week

gerrybhoy · 25-02-2018 01:03PM

Vxlks wrote: »

^^^ you need to remember this won't be "a few showers". Many reasons imply this because A: for (Dublin anyway) it won't be a crappy westerly bringing wet snow showers that are halfway gonna die out, these will be constant snow showers forming in th east getting heavier and more persistent due to lake effect snow, also all the factors out into it this time make it something memorable like the 2 SSW, AO and NAO index winds gone into negative, the strong easterly we already have too. Don't underestimate this time just because the last few weren't good. Remember, every winter is different!

I was being sarcastic bud

sryanbruen · 25-02-2018 01:05PM

Dodge wrote: »

They could do with renaming that PDF. Just sayin’

I have always wondered about the odd name in the URL :P.

Periscal · 25-02-2018 01:05PM

Alessandro Most Cog wrote: »

My wife is from Mikulas! We were over winter 2016/17 and there was very little snow around strebske pleso:(
It's -7 at the moment with a lot worse to come.

That is a surprise not seing much snow around Strbske Pleso in winter, you must have been there very early in the season, January was very cold in 2017 in fact some stations recorded coldest mean temp. since 1987, I come from the other side of the valley then Mikulas, about 40km south of Poprad, near village called Stratena, which is recognized locally as the coldest place in central Europe with mean annual temperature around +6 degrees, it is in narrow valley shaded from the sunlight by steep dolomite like hills and at altitude of 900m.asl, unfortunately it is now nearly deserted,as life is too hard to cope, heating on for 10 months of the year and no gas network around,just electricity and tons of hardwood

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pad199207 · 25-02-2018 01:06PM

ThaitaniumM wrote: »

I reckon Shannon's record will be broken :P

I reckon Casement will be the winner again this week

sryanbruen · 25-02-2018 01:08PM

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

2 inches is the heaviest snowfall in Shannon for 50 years. Seems very slight

These snow depth records would be laughable in lots of other countries.

Casualsingby · 25-02-2018 01:09PM

sryanbruen wrote: »

It will be interesting to see Thursday/Friday unfold. These are the deepest snow depths at some stations around Ireland courtesy of Met Éireann since the 1950s.

https://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/SnowfallAnal.pdf

Hard to believe Shannon only 6cm. And malin so exposed on the coast i thought it would be less

sparrowcar · 25-02-2018 01:09PM

Dodge wrote: »

They could do with renaming that PDF. Just sayin’

You just won the internet for today and it's not even lunchtime....

force eleven · 25-02-2018 01:11PM

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

2 inches is the heaviest snowfall in Shannon for 50 years. Seems very slight

Appears correct though, while they would have had many 'dustings' , nothing significant since 78'. Must be some shield there. Also, all of those records set from the fifties to eighties. Nothing for the last thirty plus years.

Burts Bee · 25-02-2018 01:13PM

Don't want to be one of those 'downgrade so'ers but I'm slowly loosing hope after investing a 4/5 days in this! Just want to see some snow. Prepped and everything. North Cork, near Mallow.

sryanbruen · 25-02-2018 01:16PM

Casualsingby wrote: »

Hard to believe Shannon only 6cm. And malin so exposed on the coast i thought it would be less

Here's the synoptics for those days.

19 January 1958 (Malin Head's snow depth record)

11 February 1978 (Shannon Airport's snow depth record)

highdef · 25-02-2018 01:17PM

daheff wrote: »

Reserved a snow shovel in argos until monday. See what weather looks like mon morning before committing to the 6eur spend!!

For anyone who is intending to purchase a snow shovel, there was a mention of a guy on done deal selling Hecht branded ones for €8 each, less if buying multiples of them. He's based in Kilcock. I bought one and it's excellent quality. Just mentioning it as I'm sure a good few people would not be too far from Kilcock. PM me if you are interested and I can send on the link as I think it would be against the rules to post publicly. Mods, this post is merely to highlight a good quality product at an excellent price. I've no connection with the seller.

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