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

Claire6 wrote: »

Friend from Poland saying the same to me. "it's -20° in Poland. People just don't know how to drive here. Its embarrassing"...

Makes me sooo mad!!

Ha check out those crazy Polish driving vids on YouTube

Shadylou wrote: »

All gone very quiet in cork city

Any chippers open?

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Like, how do they think we're going to learn to drive in snow? Should we all be doing driving lessons in the arctic circle as part of our EDT? :P

I don't think they are expert drivers. It's the winter tyres they use, mandatory in a lot of countries on the continent, gives them exceptional grip.

DOCARCH wrote: »

Troll!

Just did a measure. Still 12cm of snow (on the level) here in Dublin 16.

Lucan getting great stuff at the moment. More fun for the kids on the hill tomorrow

Just went outside and nearly got blown away by blizzard conditions!



Just kidding there's nothing in D18 (please send snow) :mad:

Haven’t had a good snow shower since last night Balbriggan area any idea if we will get anything else or are the showers going to keep missing us? Thanks

Snowing and blizzard in Dublin 15. Can see the same depth of snow again easily overnight.

One burning question though - what will happen first - the thaw or reaching 10,000 posts? Epic thread.

DOCARCH wrote: »

Anglesey/Wales gone? :pac:

Is it wrong to hope for a landslide to get rid of that region? :pac:

jones 19 wrote:

I don't think they are expert drivers. It's the winter tyres they use, mandatory in a lot of countries on the continent, gives them exceptional grip.

jones 19 wrote:

I don't think they are expert drivers. It's the winter tyres they use, mandatory in a lot of countries on the continent, gives them exceptional grip.

Exactly. They have measures in place for this that they clearly take for granted in a country that isn't accustomed to extreme weather of any sort.

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Belting down again.

New development now in Irish sea may offer southsiders hope.

I've given up on the radar, it has been lying to me all evening. Back to the old lamppost tech for a while at least.

After 23 hours of travel finally made it home. Started off in Chicago in 16c mild sunny weather, flight arrived in Dublin on time but runway just closed as approaching landing, bit of circling then diversion to Shannon, 4 hour wait on the plane, flight abandoned as crew over legal work limit, bussed to Limerick, slow train to Dublin standing only for many, taxi home. Surprisingly nearly everyone took it really well and possibly few friendships formed and lots of weather chat comparing US against Ireland. Most of the US folk were sniggering at the cancellation when in Shannon but took it a bit more serious when we reached Portlaoise - few horror stories about missed connections/weddings... Snow train report: sprinkling in Shannon/Limerick (no snowballs there), heavy shower in Thurles but generally light covering in Tipp apart from on the hills, real stuff started from Portlaoise on, deepest covering was in Kildare, depth tapered off a bit getting into Dublin and could see some areas took more of a pasting than others. Light snow showers from Drumcondra to Swords, stopped by Donabate but still nice covering from earlier. Now onto snowman making tomorrow onwards !!!

Not much falling in Trim this evening so far.

As for the Polish lad talking about Irish drivers... Managed to avoid an Eastern European lad on my way into work this morning. He was coming the opposite direction to me and swerved over and back the road 3 or 4 times. He was lucky there was a massive grass verge on both sides of the road which he made full use of. Clearly been tipping it in his VW Polo.