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

rsl1976 · 02-03-2018 12:58AM

Wind really picking up in D5

SleetAndSnow · 02-03-2018 12:58AM

Mahony0509 wrote: »

Rochestown Co. Cork, hasn't snowed in a few hours. Not a gust of wind. Eerily calm.

no wind here yet either, surprised thought it would have picked up a bit by now. Bishopstown area.

Ludo · 02-03-2018 12:59AM

Mahony0509 wrote: »

Rochestown Co. Cork, hasn't snowed in a few hours. Not a gust of wind. Eerily calm.

hmmm...Rochestown Co Cork also (Coach Hill)...been snowing lightly for a couple of hours now. Can see it in a street light right outside the window where I am sitting.

Titain · 02-03-2018 12:59AM

clownface95 wrote: »

Probably wouldn’t even call it a weather event in the south-west. Nice to see the south-east had some snow. Roll on the nice spring weather

I live in the sw and it's definately a weather event. Laying snow this close to the sea is a rare event (and will probably cause more than a few problems on roads) :-)

cnocbui · 02-03-2018 12:59AM

nimrod86 wrote: »

Been looking out at a lovely undisturbed road building up for ages, and now along come a group of little scumbags messing it all up, and blaring some god-awful rap music on a speaker while they do so...

I'm 21... when did I get old? XD

It's just rap, there is no music .

ibarelycare · 02-03-2018 12:59AM

Wind howling now in Drimnagh but snow still very fine. I need to go asleep soon but I don't wanna miss the main event

Mahony0509 · 02-03-2018 01:00AM

Ludo wrote: »

hmmm...Rochestown Co Cork also (Coach Hill)...been snowing lightly for a couple of hours now.

Up by the Rochestown College. Not a drop.

super_furry · 02-03-2018 01:00AM

So forgive my ignorance but has the big event started in Dublin yet? It’s been a steady fall of that light frozen drizzle in Shankill from about 5pm and the snow levels are really creeping up now. Windy out there but not what you’d call a storm yet.

nkay1985 · 02-03-2018 01:00AM

Looking out my window in Waterford there's very fine snow driving sideways. It's basically parallel to the road. Think I might stay here all night!

sdanseo · 02-03-2018 01:00AM

sryanbruen wrote: »

No, Winters 2018-19 to 2020-21 perhaps thanks to solar minimum.

Without taking the thread off topic at all, are you expecting this solar minimum to be more drastic than the last (where we had two memorable snow events in the same year, but nothing much else of a similar scale)?

nacho libre · 02-03-2018 01:00AM

sryanbruen wrote: »

I wouldn't say that nacho libre .

I really hope not Sryan:) I'm a bit older than you though:o

Anyway congrats to you all. I'm not even there and I am excited reading the posts

CZ 453 · 02-03-2018 01:00AM

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

no wind here yet either, surprised thought it would have picked up a bit by now. Bishopstown area.

Roads are covered completely in the estates. Main road has the odd track but largely covered. Calm. The ice under the snow is treacherous though.

stevenup7002 · 02-03-2018 01:01AM

Thicker snow now finally falling in Clonmel. The changeover from the grainy stuff was pretty much instantaneous as the darker band on the radar passed over us. Not really any increase in wind.

BumperD · 02-03-2018 01:02AM

MJohnston wrote: »

Fellow on Twitter - https://twitter.com/jnrbaker - has been taking the opportunity of the red warning to get some lovely shots of deserted Dublin:

I guess they can make a sequel to the Guinness add tonight.....:pac:

Ludo · 02-03-2018 01:02AM

Mahony0509 wrote: »

Up by the Rochestown College. Not a drop.

That's mad. I am on the slope overlooking Monastery Road and it has been non stop. I could walk to RoCo in 5 mins and yet there is that much difference.

sryanbruen · 02-03-2018 01:02AM

sdanseo wrote: »

Without taking the thread off topic at all, are you expecting this solar minimum to be more drastic than the last (where we had two memorable snow events in the same year, but nothing much else of a similar scale)?

Going by what I've seen and some of my own reanalysis, most certainly.

NMB · 02-03-2018 01:02AM

Gonzo wrote: »

Cracked open the Jack Daniels, not sure i'll ever witness an event like this again in my lifetime!

Next week ?? Get another bottle prolonging the pleasure sure this is at least a 10 day to 14 “event”

Calibos · 02-03-2018 01:02AM

MaccaTacca wrote: »

You must be joking? I live close to the seafront in Bray, just walked out onto the street, and footsteps from when I last checked an hour ago are now gone.

These small snowflakes are causing decent accumulations, and are building steadily for what’s to come.

If you look at the radar, only a tiny piece of this storm has currently passed over the Bray/Shankill area, there’s hours of this to go.

I’m confident we’ll get falls that are not too far from the predicted meter.

Meath Road. I can still see the tire marks of the last car an hour ago literally half the length of the Meath Road away!

lmimmfn · 02-03-2018 01:02AM

ZX7R wrote: »

No pump to move the water, put a large pot of water on top heat will transfer to the cold pot of water, reducing the heat and pressure in the back boiler

Just run the hot water tap to release the pressure

nkay1985 · 02-03-2018 01:03AM

Current view in Ballygunner, Waterford.

That hazy look is just constant, light snow driving sideways.

Dank Janniels · 02-03-2018 01:04AM

otherfrog wrote: »

After that brief excursion outside... have decided to treat myself to a glass of whiskey in honour of Met Eireann and the Boards weather folks who called this so long back. I was so impressed with how early Ophelia was caught and modelled and same again with this - it must be more than a week ago when I first read about it here?

Luckily I've a good employer and also I'm not in a frontline role so I don't have to worry about getting in tomorrow.

Huge respect for the front line services who are at their posts now and will be in the morning.

I really hope other employers in affected areas, or with staff from affected areas, belatedly exercise cop on and let people stay home.

In this weather minor things can become major emergencies - a slip, a skid, a fall can lead to serious complications and they're always more likely to happen when people are under pressure.

Conversely, if people are able to enjoy a rare occurrence like the one we're having right now, the memories can be magical and last a lifetime.

*raises glass*

Slainte agus Sneachta!!

dublinwolf · 02-03-2018 01:04AM

In D14, snow is really, really heavy here with severe winds and ice. I would say almost 2 feet outside in my garden and on the main road. Have been window watching, already seen someone with no helmet or jacket riding a moped and a van crash in the last half hour!

Saganist · 02-03-2018 01:04AM

Copious amounts falling here.

patneve2 · 02-03-2018 01:05AM

Raging blizzard, sheets of it battering the dalkey coast. No exaggeration

Strong Life in Dublin · 02-03-2018 01:05AM

It doesn't seem to be snowing much in D24, but I just looked out my back garden and I kid you not there must be over 1 foot of snow and I don't think its from drifts because its flat, the drifts against my wall are definitely higher than a foot.

Sam Quentin · 02-03-2018 01:05AM

Windy here with sharp fast gusts and snow still falling, depth rising slowly.
Dundalk.

abacus120 · 02-03-2018 01:05AM

Calibos wrote: »

Every time I read another post about accumulations of the heavy 'fine' snow I pop my head out the Velux....

.....nope.......still just a dusting on the roads in my corner of Bray.

This deeper red blob out in the Irish sea better deliver the good stuff

Xanax yet to kick in.

Greystones is getting lashed out of it,so close to bray

allthedoyles · 02-03-2018 01:06AM

I reckon about 2 inches of snow in SW Wexford so far , its steady very light flakes

jamo2oo9 · 02-03-2018 01:06AM

Popped outside for a bit to see what it was like as windows weren't too clear. Door is frozen shut with ice!

nkay1985 · 02-03-2018 01:06AM

Current view in Ballygunner, Waterford.

That hazy look is just constant, light snow driving sideways.

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