Severe Weather Snow / Ice Weds 28 FEB ( Onwards ) ** READ MOD NOTE POST#1**

revelman wrote: »

How did you measure the 30cm? Here, in Kinsale we've had constant snow since Tuesday evening and only 18cm on the ground according to the measuring tape. Not doubting you but I'm amazed by 30cm in Roscommon.

With a shovel

we are on an elevated exposed position so admittedly probably more than surrounding areas.

Suns out in Cork but no thaw. Layer of ice under the snow. (Lough area)

Nabber wrote: »

Lads, this is better than 2010...
There I said it.....

Perhaps in some areas but where I am we have about a foot of snow in 2010, only about 2 inches now! :pac:

Kamili wrote: »

I've heard that for the last 48 on here.

TBH I'm sick of it all now - my boss in the US is getting very angry for all the customer events planned this week having been cancelled and I'm bearing the brunt of it.

He can't understand how 18cm can shut down the country. They are used to working in drifts of 18ft over there and still getting on with it.

I tried the "its Ireland we are not made for this", and got laughed at.

Jesus. Watching people get upset by getting snow or not getting snow is ridiculous. SAD

Kamili wrote: »

I've heard that for the last 48 on here.

TBH I'm sick of it all now - my boss in the US is getting very angry for all the customer events planned this week having been cancelled and I'm bearing the brunt of it.

He can't understand how 18cm can shut down the country. They are used to working in drifts of 18ft over there and still getting on with it.

I tried the "its Ireland we are not made for this", and got laughed at.

Look on the positive side - we would have the same outcome with 1.8cm of snow. They'd never stop laughing if this was the case.

Looking like we might get a few more flurries there in the city in Cork? Or are we now awaiting for storm emma to bury us?

Has only paused momentarily in Trim this morning. Still coming down. I dug my car out and cleared my driveway ready for off. Changed my mind and decided that I will work from home.

irishrover99 wrote: »

In d16 myself and I've about 10 cm in my garden so not sure why you have none

Never said I had none, I was responding to a poster saying that Its not as good as 2010 here with me.

Deffo don't have 10cm though, more like 4-5cm Wind is blowing it away and there was a significant thaw yesterday, icicles on roofs.

Bizarre I just saw Q from Moesha at Dublin Airport on RTE news giving out about the snow

Kamili wrote: »

I tried the "its Ireland we are not made for this", and got laughed at.

It sounds like you need a new boss tbh. What an asshole. It's not like you can control the weather or the national response to it.

_Dara_ wrote: »

It isn’t though. Winter 2010 is unparalleled in my lifetime. Weeks of lying snow, icicle formation, thick ice forming on canals, rivers and lakes, and regular decent amounts of snow. This isn’t anywhere close to that in any part of the country.

I guess to a certain extent you can't always compare one snow event to another. 2010 saw 28 days of lying snow where I was. That was certainly unprecedented.

If we were to see 3/4/5 foot drifts tonight, then that's also a "once in a lifetime" level, even if the snow melts 48 hours later.

The levels here in D16 are not the same as 2010...yet. The ridiculous snow was never supposed to arrive until tonight, though the red warning calling for an extra 10-15cm of snow overnight never materialised here. We've had 4-5cm since 6pm yesterday, most of that in the last 3 hours. Seems like many other areas got it though.

Currently standing at 12cm total accumulation. We lost 2-3cm over yesterday afternoon.

Been lightly snowing all morning in Kimmage. Not really adding a lot of depth so far but the original fall plus a small bit more is still lying in areas away from the main streets.

Kamili wrote: »

I've heard that for the last 48 on here.

TBH I'm sick of it all now - my boss in the US is getting very angry for all the customer events planned this week having been cancelled and I'm bearing the brunt of it.

He can't understand how 18cm can shut down the country. They are used to working in drifts of 18ft over there and still getting on with it.

I tried the "its Ireland we are not made for this", and got laughed at.

Tell him to stop waffling. US has many, many states which are similar to Ireland in terms of being able to handle snow. In fact, it has many, many more that are worse at handling it.

Perhaps, as a boss, he'd be able to understand the fallacy of his business expending lots of money for expensive equipment that is used once every 8 years at best?

_Dara_ wrote: »

No way. The depths are nowhere near as deep as what Dublin and other areas got in December 2010. People have short memories!

I have to agree.