MJohnston wrote: » It's not necessarily evaporating - more likely it is getting blown away to a place where it will get stuck (up against a wall or fence, etc.) and that's what snowdrifts are. If the snow doesn't melt and it's light snow (as it has been for most of the snowfall over the last couple of days), then it'll act just like sand or whatever with the wind. Heavier, wetter flakes of snow would take a lot more effort to budge, but the light stuff just blows away. My back garden is like a demonstration of this in action - one side has a snow depth of less than 1cm, the other side has a depth of about 15cm - the wind is drifting it from one side to the other.
DellyBelly wrote: » Started here again just now. Fairly heavy as well
Aspiring wrote: » Hopefully it's not too cold for snow
policy75 wrote: » We have about 12 inches of snow here. It was suggested on the technical thread on boatds.ie and happened. But then the 4om watershed of utter catasprophe didn't quite happen
wakka12 wrote: » Latest snow depth charts still saying dublin will have huge totals but still just ice pellets here. How could this possibly come anywhere close to a metre even if these ice pellets keep coming down until 6pm tomorrow it'll only be 3 or 4 inches Id say
DaithiMa wrote: » Dublin 15 taken by my sis. Can't believe I am stranded out West for this haha!! Hopefully we will get some action later
aidanodr wrote: » https://twitter.com/EoinBearla/status/969345031311167488
Calibos wrote: » compsys wrote: » It feels like you're over exaggerating. You just need to relax a bit. I'm right beside the sea too in Monkstown and it's been "crappy ice pellets" for the past three hours also. However, when I look out closely at the road and the cars I can see that it's definitely leading to accumulations. Even if "proper" snow didn't arrive at all tonight I'd say the level of accumulations would be quite high. Also, if you look close enough, you'll see that it is (very fine) snow that's falling. Admittedly it would be nice to see a few big, proper flakes falling. But this is Ireland after all and we're beside the sea and it's already into spring. The wind alone would almost warrant a warning at this stage. I'm not complaining about warning levels or anything like that. Simply frustrated at literally zero accumulation in my corner of Bray after 3 hours of this on top of frustration at that damn easterly wind shift meaning we only got 5cm on Tuesday night and nothing at all on Wednesday. I genuinely am going to take a xanax now LOL
compsys wrote: » It feels like you're over exaggerating. You just need to relax a bit. I'm right beside the sea too in Monkstown and it's been "crappy ice pellets" for the past three hours also. However, when I look out closely at the road and the cars I can see that it's definitely leading to accumulations. Even if "proper" snow didn't arrive at all tonight I'd say the level of accumulations would be quite high. Also, if you look close enough, you'll see that it is (very fine) snow that's falling. Admittedly it would be nice to see a few big, proper flakes falling. But this is Ireland after all and we're beside the sea and it's already into spring. The wind alone would almost warrant a warning at this stage.
sryanbruen wrote: » Wikipedia article on this cold spell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_UK_and_Ireland_windstorm_season#Late_February_2018_European_cold_wave
JJayoo wrote: » Could imagine a lot of roof damage if we get this metre of snow. Huge amount of weight
wakka12 wrote: » Go out with a black jumper on and come back in and look at your sleeves, its snowing everywhere in dublin Its very strange acting precipitation though, the ground is clearly accumulating in D14 (only by a little bit, mind) but the car outside my house which was cleared of snow earlier in the day is still snow free now.
MJohnston wrote: » Please try reading the explanations people are posting - the snow is drifting to extremes because of the high winds, meaning if you aren't seeing accumulations in your garden - sorry but you'll have to hope for some heavy, wet snow instead. Those accumulations will be somewhere nearby, probably burying some poor house with an end wall or something. This isn't our usual snowstorm where it falls with little-or-no snow and comes straight down, and you get basically even distribution.
policy75 wrote: » storm, what exact storm are we talking abour Remain inside from 4pm for fear of your lives. Not a whiff of a breeze nor a whisker of snow in the midlands. TV3 and Varadker. Priceless
KingBobby wrote: » Apologies for the o/t but whats the best way to upload pictures and video? Its starting to howl here in D16 at 260m
mickmackey1 wrote: » Yeah sorry, misread your post. The 4pm deadline was a farce.
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