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

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  • Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭ThaitaniumM


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Its kind of sunny now and scaring me a little..solar radiation can melt snow a bit even if the temps are below 0 can't it??

    Yes it causes sublimation


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭hot buttered scones


    aidanodr wrote:
    Yip .. Im in Carrigaline. We got well hit through the night last night, but over the hill in Cork city .. NOTHING. Hence all the radio stations ( 96fm, Red FM ) displaying disbelief and callers also .. "Shur no snow here, how could it be there" .. implication is someone telling porkies. I mean .. whats that attitude all about, I dont get it?


    We only got 3 or 4cm I'd say up the northside. Wife was working out in Mahon and said it was worse out there. I'm working out in Ringaskiddy - not due in until Friday, but I got a text saying the plant is closed until further notice. If ypu watched the radar at all you could see your area getting pasted.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,801 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Its kind of sunny now and scaring me a little..solar radiation can melt snow a bit even if the temps are below 0 can't it??

    I'm not sure, heard conflicting views on this


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,801 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    We only got 3 or 4cm I'd say up the northside. Wife was working out in Mahon and said it was worse out there. I'm working out in Ringaskiddy - not due in until Friday, but I got a text saying the plant is closed until further notice. If ypu watched the radar at all you could see your area getting pasted.

    We got a good bit in city centre too


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭eldamo


    The largest amount of warnings ive seen on the met eireann site

    STATUS RED

    Snow-ice Warning for Munster and Leinster
    Blizzard-like conditions will develop in heavy snow and strong easterly winds on Thursday evening and will continue Thursday night and Friday morning giving significant snow drifts in many areas.

    Issued:Wednesday 28 February 2018 11:00
    Valid:Thursday 01 March 2018 16:00 to Friday 02 March 2018 12:00


    STATUS RED

    Snow-ice Warning for Dublin, Kildare, Louth, Wicklow and Meath
    Heavy overnight snowfall has led to accumulations of snow between 5 and 10cm. Snow showers will continue to occur during today and again tonight with further accumulations. Total snowfall up to midday Thursday may reach 25cm.

    Issued:Wednesday 28 February 2018 05:00
    Valid:Wednesday 28 February 2018 05:00 to Thursday 01 March 2018 12:00


    STATUS ORANGE

    Snow-ice Warning for Connacht, Cavan and Monaghan
    Persistent snow will develop on Thursday night and will continue into Friday. Together with strong easterly winds this may lead to snow drifts.

    Issued:Wednesday 28 February 2018 11:00
    Valid:Thursday 01 March 2018 20:00 to Friday 02 March 2018 12:00


    STATUS ORANGE

    Snow-ice Warning for Carlow, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Wexford, Offaly, Westmeath, Cork, Tipperary and Waterford
    Update
    Scattered heavy snow showers continuing today, tonight and tomorrow with further accumulations.

    Issued:Wednesday 28 February 2018 08:14
    Valid:Wednesday 28 February 2018 06:00 to Thursday 01 March 2018 12:00


    STATUS YELLOW

    Snow-ice Warning for Connacht, Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Clare and Limerick
    Scattered heavy snow showers today, tonight, and tomorrow.

    Issued:Wednesday 28 February 2018 11:00
    Valid:Wednesday 28 February 2018 08:00 to Thursday 01 March 2018 12:00

    feck, do I have to go into the office for 4 hours tomorrow afternoon?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭bazlers


    East day ding very we today. Happy times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭hot buttered scones


    wakka12 wrote:
    Its kind of sunny now and scaring me a little..solar radiation can melt snow a bit even if the temps are below 0 can't it??

    Well it's definitely melting here in Cork City, but refreezing again in patches. Anywhere in direct sunlight has lost a lot, if not all of the snow. Roads will be lethal later on I reckon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭harr


    Has the wind changed direction :(
    Was expecting to get tailend of a couple of streamers here in kildare but suddenly they seem to head north instead of south towards me.,


  • Registered Users Posts: 266 ✭✭Burts Bee


    leahyl wrote: »
    Guys, s**t just got real! :pac:

    Delighted for you cork city folk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭Ray Donovan


    Barnaboy wrote: »
    Struggling to keep up with all the posts but I haven't seen much reports from the north midlands. I'm in northeast Offaly and it is incessant here. Reckon 8-9 inches lying snow and continuing to fall.

    Hard to believe how localised the heavier stuff is.

    Where are you Barnaboy? I teach in Edenderry and needless to say school was closed today. More than likely tomorrow and Friday too.


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


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Its kind of sunny now and scaring me a little..solar radiation can melt snow a bit even if the temps are below 0 can't it??
    -2 here and yet the dusting we got has melted. Don't fully understand it myself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Midday 28th Feb 2018

    Mullingar -3
    Dunsany -3
    Johnstown castle -3
    Gurteen -3
    Even a rare -2 for the Sherkin islands


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,581 ✭✭✭bennyl10


    Flutters again in d6.
    Habe we any idea of times for snowfall?...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,850 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    We only got 3 or 4cm I'd say up the northside. Wife was working out in Mahon and said it was worse out there. I'm working out in Ringaskiddy - not due in until Friday, but I got a text saying the plant is closed until further notice. If ypu watched the radar at all you could see your area getting pasted.

    Oh i was watching it all right. Up all night cause I have a bug to boot so sleep disturbed last few nights. Cant sleep .. weather watch :D

    Its just this thing of .. "well if it aint snowing in my immediate area, then any other place near by cannot be either, so stop fibbing"


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    the Irish Sea has gone dead for now, maybe this is what MT is referring to when he says in his daily forecast that there will be a brief lull this morning.
    Sun here again, showers since 10am here haven't really amounted to much, very patchy and light most of the time.

    Hopefully we will see some prolonged 2010 level beefy showers later today.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    The Irish Sea has gone quiet. Say it ain’t so, Irish Sea.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭BLIZZARD7


    Decent burst of heavy snow and graupel in Goatstown just there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,131 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    A robin just kicked some snow off my roof. Bastard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭adam240610


    Any chance of a more NE wind? For north Wicklow :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,597 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    Definite thaw on here in the north east


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 779 ✭✭✭HONKEY TONK


    Gonzo wrote: »
    the Irish Sea has gone dead for now, maybe this is what MT is referring to when he says in his daily forecast that there will be a brief lull this morning.
    Sun here again, showers since 10am here haven't really amounted to much, very patchy and light most of the time.

    Hopefully we will see some prolonged 2010 level beefy showers later today.

    Looks pretty busy in Howth

    https://balticlivecam.com/cameras/ireland/howth/howth-panorama/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,241 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Fingal Co. Council & presumably many others absolutely on the ball with alerts.

    SMS and emails very soon after MÉ issued warnings
    RTÉ also with push notifications.

    I have no doubt that these events warrant multiple red warnings numerically; my only worry is if we ever have a dangerous event worse than Ophelia (more likely with every year, our weather is becoming more severe, what that is caused by is not for this thread) that they will lose their impact.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 2,283 Mod ✭✭✭✭angeldaisy


    Trying to follow the forecast for this week, Limerick is on a red alert from Thursday evening through to Friday.

    What does this mean for the rest of the country, I'm supposed to be heading to Dun Laoghaire this weekend, any idea if the alerts will still be in place?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    A risk is that sun will melt snow in parts, which will then refreeze later and be snow covered. Thst will make the roads and paths much more treachorous.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Definitely looks like a few hours lull in Dublin and elsewhere from about now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Work feels so long today. I just want to get out in that beautiful snow and see how the whole city looks under it. I feel like a caged animal right now :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Casement hourly snow depth reports this morning.

    3 am 4 cm
    4 am 6 cm
    5 am 16 cm
    6 am 16 cm
    7 am 16 cm
    8 am 16 cm
    9 am 16 cm
    10 am 14 cm
    11 am 15 cm
    12 pm 16 cm


  • Registered Users Posts: 10 ARated


    Nice site for traffic cams in the Dublin region: tiitraffic dot ie/cams/ (can't post links at the moment - new user) N81 near Baltinglass looks bad. But M50 currently looks ok. Will be interesting to watch over the coming days.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    sdanseo wrote: »
    Fingal Co. Council & presumably many others absolutely on the ball with alerts.

    SMS and emails very soon after MÉ issued warnings
    RTÉ also with push notifications.

    I have no doubt that these events warrant multiple red warnings numerically; my only worry is if we ever have a dangerous event worse than Ophelia (more likely with every year, our weather is becoming more severe, what that is caused by is not for this thread) that they will lose their impact.

    Well if there is n ot 1982 or 2010 style b


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭power pants


    Quite a fast thaw happening north dunlin already
    Balcony was thick with snow now clear, snow shrinking on rooftops too
    This to be expected and perhaps more snow later?


  • Registered Users Posts: 160 ✭✭stevenup7002


    Clonmel was completely covered in a thin white dusting this morning, but the sun came out and melted the snow. Problem is, because it's below zero, it's all just frozen back into patches of black ice...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    Leinster and Munster have a red warning for Tomorrow.

    Edenderry in Offaly in Leinster


  • Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭EMPotatohands


    The sun can literally sh*te off or ill snap.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭Devilman40k


    Mullingar getting another blast now... neighbour cleared his drive - it's covered again


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Gonzo wrote: »
    the Irish Sea has gone dead for now, maybe this is what MT is referring to when he says in his daily forecast that there will be a brief lull this morning.
    Sun here again, showers since 10am here haven't really amounted to much, very patchy and light most of the time.

    Hopefully we will see some prolonged 2010 level beefy showers later today.

    Starting to kick off a bit here again Gonzo. Easterly bringing snow onshore to Louth. Theres potentially the longest fetch possible if things liven up later.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 987 ✭✭✭revelman


    Main headline on RTÉ - disruption as “snow hits east”.

    It has hit us down here on the south coast of Cork too - as bad as anything I’m reading in the East! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,331 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Countdown to home time.....20 minutes


  • Registered Users Posts: 30 Ich bin ein snowman


    From the radar it looks like Wexford and Waterford are getting a good pasting....Enjoy lads and ladies, rare event indeed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    The sun can literally sh*te off or ill snap.

    I know , its very frustrating. Takes so many factors to coincide for this event to occur and now ****in sun wants to try ruin it grrr


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    revelman wrote: »
    Main headline on RTÉ - disruption as “snow hits east”.

    It has hit us down here on the south coast of Cork too - as bad as anything I’m reading in the East! :D


    It's RTE, nothing outside Dublin exists to them. If this only hit Cork this morning, you'd be lucky to get a 2 minute piece on RTE about it!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭Artane2002


    Snizzle just about clipped D5.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    I reckon the snow melt that is happening in places despite the sub zero temperatures is the strong solar effect as we are only hours away from March. If this was a few weeks ago there probably would be no thaw anywhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    The runway at Dublin airport is 600 acres?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,131 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Quite a fast thaw happening north dunlin already
    Balcony was thick with snow now clear, snow shrinking on rooftops too
    This to be expected and perhaps more snow later?

    There will be more snow later today and overnight but it's unlikely to be as intense as last night.

    Thaw here on some surfaces. Shaded areas will be fine but we'll lose the snow from main roads and their pavements before nightfall. At which point everything will freeze and the roads will become lethal.

    The sun this time of year is a pain for this. Even such low temperature air mass can't prevent it.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,801 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Gonzo wrote: »
    I reckon the snow melt that is happening in places despite the sub zero temperatures is the strong solar effect as we are only hours away from March. If this was a few weeks ago there probably would be no thaw anywhere.

    So much for the snow libido :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 987 ✭✭✭revelman


    It's RTE, nothing outside Dublin exists to them. If this only hit Cork this morning, you'd be lucky to get a 2 minute piece on RTE about it!

    Looking at some serious nimbostratus clouds coming straight towards us now from the Atlantic. We might be adding a few inches to this snow fall.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 473 ✭✭nuttyboy79


    Taken from RTE

    All schools in Munster and Leinster will close tomorrow for the rest of the week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,991 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    laugh wrote: »
    The runway at Dublin airport is 600 acres?

    They have more than one runway also takes into account taxiways and stands


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭hot buttered scones


    oh ya. I hear it's the perfect texture for running.


    Ha ha! I'm well aware of that video! You can be sure I tested it out very very slowly first. It hadn't compacted yet. There was even some dry patches on the paths.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 695 ✭✭✭beefburrito


    revelman wrote: »
    Looking at some serious nimbostratus clouds coming straight towards us now from the Atlantic. We might be adding a few inches to this snow fall.

    So are they wrapping in with the easterly wind, if they're coming westwards they have the offshore wind's to deal with.


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