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

Meteorite58

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Time to start a new thread as the other one reaches its capacity!

I'm sure kermit.de.frog will add a forecast and keep it updated for us.

So to kick it off a few mouth watering charts of the snow and cold potential over the coming days, stay safe.

Looking very windy going into Thurs night and look at those windchill readings!

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Gremlin

tobsey wrote: »

Are you sure that’s not the lights flickering? It’s happened to me a few times near swords. (Sorry for not being very technical)

Nope saw the clouds light up. No lights on here anyway. Nothing on blitzortnung. Could *possibly* be arcs from the nearby DART line overheads cables though

Taxedalot

pad199207 wrote: »

if this keeps up i can well see 100cm being reached here!

Utterly astonished by the depth so far - can't open back door without a serious effort.

If it changes to '"proper" snowflakes, as opposed to ice pellets overnight, we could easily exceed a metre - amazing.

sdanseo

sryanbruen wrote: »

The greatest depth of snow to beat is 45cm at Casement Aerodrome on 31 December 1962.

Absolutely no doubt that record is going to be flattened.

Elmer Blooker

The first drifts I have seen in 36 years!
A lovely big "dune" in my front garden.

They were too hasty to announce red warning countrywide and shut down road gritting so early.

A wise decision, Friday can be written off as a working day and the country has the weekend to clear up and get back to work on Monday.

Mafra

Have the accompanying winds been downgraded?

Heckler

froog wrote: »

city centre cork out the western road, very fine snow falling gently. everything coated in white, including the empty roads. quite a bizarre scene. youngfellas walking around in the middle of the road like it's a zombie apocalypse or something.

UCC students with a few days off. Saw them around cissy youngs yesterday in t shirts throwing snowballs. ****ing idiots.

Surinam

Decent drifts forming even in city centre of Dublin!

sryanbruen

The greatest depth of snow to beat is 45cm at Casement Aerodrome on 31 December 1962.

Surinam

Honestly, with the amount already accumulating in Dublin alone this could be worse than 1982. There is another 24 hours of snow to come.

Rougies

The first world problems are real tonight.

pistolpetes11

Rala_ wrote: »

More snow forecast for next weekend! Crazy.

Please post a source , as Met Eireann aint sure how Saturday / Sunday are going to ply out never mind next weekend

:D:D;)

derekon

Sorry , where is EMMA? Grains falling in Dublin the last 6 HOURS!!! 1.20am now, MW predicting a METRE of snow for Dublin but the radar shows more grains......am I missing something????

Sparks43

thomasj wrote: »

Tragically 9 dead and 100s currently stranded in their cars in Britain.

And on that note for the first time in my life I must give the government some credit for their response to this situation.

Everyone pulled together on this and even though we aren't out the other side a lot of pride can be taken in how it was handled.

Let's enjoy the snow but remember that it the temperature can kill the weak and the sick.

[Deleted User]

RuthieRose wrote: »

So do they think it’s now safe to travel?

It certainly is not safe to travel from where I am living, it may be different in the northern half of the county.

beefburrito

During my walk today I met a bohemian lad rushing to the post office.

He left a trail of sweet smelling tobacco and something else in his wake...

Met him an hour later,post office closed, dumped by his girlfriend and she took the dog...

He wasn't worried about her, but his dog was on his mind...

He's living in a bothy type of shed thing, I might hike up tomorrow,see if he's OK....

Cul a cnoic

mickmackey1 wrote: »

This is deffo the only time 1500 boardsies have been active on the weather forum at 1am in the morning :pac:

2300 before midnight

wakka12

Steopo wrote: »

Snow seems noticeably wetter here in Donabate & heavy stuff doesn’t seem to be moving in off the Irish Sea. Looks like coastal fringe affect will keep accumulation lower than other areas

I'm not coastal but it's still quite wet and small snow here too. Heavier stuff is predicted to arrive

pauldry

Steady small snowflakes the last 2 hours in Sligo have left a coating once more.

Dp is rising now -3c some Southern areas now -1c.

Theres probably going to be copious amounts of snow somewhere but the danger is that it will get wetter though that leads to even deeper snow

Rala_

More snow forecast for next weekend! Crazy.

pad199207

if this keeps up i can well see 100cm being reached here!

RuthieRose

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I just received a Status Orange alert for Roscomon.

So do they think it’s now safe to travel?

NomadicGray

Here in Sallins and its making quite the effort to make it to my windows

https://i.imgur.com/dis65se.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/j1ZvbEY.jpg

murfo

Markgc wrote: »

Thousands upon thousands of trading hours lost. Business' struggling as it is; every second shop doorway in this town already boarded up.

They were too hasty to announce red warning countrywide and shut down road gritting so early.

If only they could come up with an acceptable ratio between profits/lives lost, then we could all just get on with it:rolleyes:

fg1406

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

It would be more useful if people could provide information on the accumulations rather than snow type.

Here it's mounting up. Still relatively fine snow though.

3 inches is all we have here as at 11:30pm when I braved the front garden. A lot of that fell yesterday.

Kingrosie

Could anyone guess when they main intensity will be felt over Dublin? Struggling to think this isn’t it and it could be worse

thomasj

Tragically 9 dead and 100s currently stranded in their cars in Britain.

tobsey

Gremlin wrote: »

Seeing lightning flashes in North Dublin, no thunder tho.

Are you sure that’s not the lights flickering? It’s happened to me a few times near swords. (Sorry for not being very technical)

Meteorite58

Markgc wrote: »

Thousands upon thousands of trading hours lost. Business' struggling as it is; every second shop doorway in this town already boarded up.

They were too hasty to announce red warning countrywide and shut down road gritting so early.

Mod Note: Markgc You made your point now move on.

Kermit.de.frog

It would be more useful if people could provide information on the accumulations rather than snow type.

Here it's mounting up. Still relatively fine snow though.

[Deleted User]

I just received a Status Orange alert for Roscommon.

Snow-ice Warning for Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo

Update
Scattered heavy snow showers and icy conditions during Friday.
Issued:
Friday 02 March 2018 00:00
Valid:
Friday 02 March 2018 00:01 to Friday 02 March 2018 18:00