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

mumo3 · 01-03-2018 09:44PM

I swear I think its raining here in clondalkin ðŸ˜ very fine but still rain

d'Oracle · 01-03-2018 09:44PM

RustyGate wrote: »

Point is the red alert has being going on for two days now, and that weather is still only just arriving. And it's that period I have a problem with. We all got through 2009 and 2010 without this blanket closure nonsense for a regular cold spell. Tonight is something different.

No the red alert yesterday is different from the one for today and different again to the one for tonight.

You seem to think that somebody made these people close up. They didn't. they made their decision.

acronym Chilli · 01-03-2018 09:44PM

d'Oracle wrote: »

That is nonsense.
We do not have the infrastructure to handle this weather.

What infrastructure really though?

To keep cars and transport moving on the roads the main thing is to mandate winter tyres say Oct to April. Those are generally better than summer tyres even in just cold wet weather. There are also credible four season tyres that would be legit in Germany/Canada as winter tyres (e.g. I have Michelin Cross Climates, have had Hankook Optimieren 4S too and they were good).

I'm not out driving though as I know almost nobody else has proper tyres for the conditions.

Long run, the extra cost is just an extra set of steel rims. No extra tyre cost since you spread the wear across two sets of tyres.

To keep footpaths clear, each house needs a brush and a snow shovel. In German towns you are responsible to shovel a track in front of your house wide enough for pedestrian to pass. With flats/apartments there's a rota so depending on luck someone gets job to shovel. If you don't do it there's a first e since now the council has to clear paths.

We've invested already in some ploughing and salt/grit plant. However, many parts of Germany don't get much more snow than we do but manage fine (e.g. NRW, definitely not every year that e.g . Münster has heavy snow, and many roads are not ploughed when it does happen).

stevenup7002 · 01-03-2018 09:44PM

leahyl wrote: »

What’s with the ME radar showing a big band of precipitation over Cork City and it’s bone dry

I'd just ignore the radars at this point. They've been faulty all day.

Yggr of Asgard · 01-03-2018 09:45PM

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

They weren’t off by miles. You are confusing the forecasts with today’s red warning. The idea was to give people time to go home.

Not all of us have 5-hour commutes unless this was done specifically for TD's to go home.

Why issuing a warning to shelter at home from 1500 if the actual event is only now hitting in parts of the country.

There is no need to issue something like that so way out of the actual weather event, that is just covering their backside rather than providing reliable information.

I have no issue with a red alert, but a stay indoors as your life is in danger hours before the event is just stupid and in the long run, next time around people are not going to listen.

pnpweirdo · 01-03-2018 09:45PM

Nothing yet to report in limerick city

Loughc · 01-03-2018 09:45PM

skeleton_boy wrote: »

No, the worst hasn't even come yet.

When is the worse due?

MrMischief · 01-03-2018 09:45PM

Artane2002 wrote: »

I know it's snow but are the big water droplets on the window bugging anyone?

I went out and cleaned the windows believe it or now - 5 mins later back again.

MrMischief · 01-03-2018 09:46PM

Artane2002 wrote: »

I know it's snow but are the big water droplets on the window bugging anyone?

I went out and cleaned the windows believe it or now - 5 mins later back again.

Dank Janniels · 01-03-2018 09:46PM

The auld fella is infront of tv all day watching crap like tipping point +judge rinder on tv3-2 or what ever its called. He switched over to watch the news special on rte but switched back after 15mins, said nothing hapening yet.
I wanted to watch the 6 o clock news he says its same as before +wudnt switch channels at at!
Was the same attitude during Ophelia +the other winter snow+storms, totaly oblivious to whats goin on!!

patneve2 · 01-03-2018 09:46PM

Loughc wrote: »

When is the worse due?

After midnight most likely

sryanbruen · 01-03-2018 09:46PM

Artane2002 wrote: »

I know it's snow but are the big water droplets on the window bugging anyone?

Definitely! :mad:

Cantona's Collars · 01-03-2018 09:47PM

Artane2002 wrote: »

I know it's snow but are the big water droplets on the window bugging anyone?

It's the heat from your house melting the flakes. Don't worry.

Stargate · 01-03-2018 09:47PM

Maybe because wind coming from NE ?

01-03-2018 09:47PM

Artane2002 wrote: »

I know it's snow but are the big water droplets on the window bugging anyone?

Well i've had 24 hours of snow so (sorry) they're coming as a welcome relief. But so cold outside, no chance of snow-melt.;)

LookingFor · 01-03-2018 09:47PM

In D15. There was that 'fine mist' for a while, with associated droplets on the windows... but it's snowing now (I think) and the bits of the road that weren't white during the day are white again now.

Cork Boy 53 · 01-03-2018 09:47PM

We have had little or no snow here today but starting to get a steady fall now.

Deenie78 · 01-03-2018 09:48PM

I'm in Donaghmede, Dublin 13, went for a very quick 5 minute walk around the block to get a feel for the weather (a dare from my 79 year old Dad - don't ask!), it looks like quite fine snow but by the time I'd come back my footprints were covered, the wind would cut the face off you at times ... think I'll skip the 11pm stroll!

Loughc · 01-03-2018 09:48PM

patneve2 wrote: »

After midnight most likely

Good thing i'm a night owl #lamppostwatching

sryanbruen wrote: »

Definitely! :mad:

Same, the rain really dampened the experience.

rafared · 01-03-2018 09:48PM

Misty fine rain droplets falling here in Drogheda now.

Paully D · 01-03-2018 09:48PM

TV stations etc now starting to go.

Hi Emma.

LEIN · 01-03-2018 09:48PM

Not far off a blizzard here.

-0.9C

Brilliant weather!

Taxedalot · 01-03-2018 09:49PM

Artane2002 wrote: »

I know it's snow but are the big water droplets on the window bugging anyone?

Yes - me.

It's epic with the way it's being blown around and all, but going to take some amount of them to add up to a metre.

As someone else said, I want the dinner plate flakes - I want to see them being blown around!!

power pants · 01-03-2018 09:49PM

M50 at 5pm today

SpitfireIV · 01-03-2018 09:49PM

Hooks Golf Handicap wrote: »

My only fear is that all the snow maps have a big hole in them on the South Kildare/Carlow border, exactly where I live.

Carlow town here. That hole has me worried too and holding true on the radar too thus far!! :-\

http://m.met.ie/weather-rainfall-radar.aspx

Razleavy · 01-03-2018 09:49PM

Very windy with fine snow in Citywest at the moment!

Ken Tucky · 01-03-2018 09:49PM

MrMischief wrote: »

I went out and cleaned the windows believe it or now - 5 mins later back again.

Yes it's mental. Never seen anything like the color out there either.
Was a wee nipper in 82". Glad my little fella is getting to witness this. Once in a lifetime stuff I reckon

01-03-2018 09:50PM

Paully D wrote: »

TV stations etc now starting to go.

Hi Emma.

Had some shaky electricals earlier but all good now- hope it holds out for you.:)

Shane O' Malley · 01-03-2018 09:50PM

Just saw this fantastic series of tweets about what it takes to clear a city of snow. https://twitter.com/JudithFlanders/status/958072934396039168?s=19
Specially for anyone giving out about Irish cities closing down after a few cms.

d'Oracle · 01-03-2018 09:50PM

acronym Chilli wrote: »

What infrastructure really though?

To keep cars and transport moving on the roads the main thing is to mandate winter tyres say Oct to April. Those are generally better than summer tyres even in just cold wet weather. There are also credible four season tyres that would be legit in Germany/Canada as winter tyres (e.g. I have Michelin Cross Climates, have had Hankook Optimieren 4S too and they were good).

I'm not out driving though as I know almost nobody else has proper tyres for the conditions.

Long run, the extra cost is just an extra set of steel rims. No extra tyre cost since you spread the wear across two sets of tyres.

To keep footpaths clear, each house needs a brush and a snow shovel. In German towns you are responsible to shovel a track in front of your house wide enough for pedestrian to pass. With flats/apartments there's a rota so depending on luck someone gets job to shovel. If you don't do it there's a first e since now the council has to clear paths.

We've invested already in some ploughing and salt/grit plant. However, many parts of Germany don't get much more snow than we do but manage fine (e.g. NRW, definitely not every year that e.g . Münster has heavy snow, and many roads are not ploughed when it does happen).

OK fair enough.
But if its not a question of infrastructure, then its not the fault of the state, ME or anyone else, its just people not having tyresets. Hardly national incompetence, is it?

I mean I don't need them, cos Im not driving anywhere.

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