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Birneybau · 02-03-2018 02:38AM

Power just gone in Crumlin

Panjandrums · 02-03-2018 02:43AM

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_Dara_ · 02-03-2018 02:47AM

wil wrote: »

For many people this is really turning in to yet another non event.
In 2010 Dublin had temperatures down to minus 15 and over 50cms for Christmas then another similar dose end of Jan.

You know that happened in midwinter, right?

In 2010, cars didn't disappear either, though the snow was deeper. Naturally, because it was a much longer cold spell. This was never forecast to be as long so the comparison is meaningless. If you're expecting it to be like 2010 then, yeah, it's a non-event. But it was never advertised as such.

CPTM · 02-03-2018 02:50AM

Birneybau wrote: »

Power just gone in Crumlin

Keep your phones charged. You never know where the power will be cut next.

Charlie19 · 02-03-2018 02:51AM

Thats not good.

Fingers crossed that it can be restored before morning, The old would be very vulnerable in these conditions.

Birneybau · 02-03-2018 02:54AM

CPTM wrote: »

Birneybau wrote: »

Power just gone in Crumlin

Keep your phones charged. You never know where the power will be cut next.

All over Dublin apparently

Charlie19 · 02-03-2018 02:57AM

Birneybau wrote: »

All over Dublin apparently

Puts phone on charge and sticks on a boost.

_Dara_ · 02-03-2018 03:01AM

Watched LA Confidential for the first time. CLASS.

Then baked golden syrup loaf cáca milis.

Birneybau · 02-03-2018 03:17AM

Drinking red wine, in bed, in the dark (power cut)

Junkyard Tom · 02-03-2018 03:28AM

Current electricity supply interruptions. https://www.esb.ie/esb-networks/powercheck/

Birneybau · 02-03-2018 03:32AM

Yeah, but Ranelagh and it's Ilk got power back very quickly. A little too quickly

Vincent Vega · 02-03-2018 03:51AM

From reddit.
https://twitter.com/NiallwMorris/status/969387617925156864

wil · 02-03-2018 04:11AM

_Dara_ wrote: »

You know that happened in midwinter, right?

In 2010, cars didn't disappear either, though the snow was deeper. Naturally, because it was a much longer cold spell. This was never forecast to be as long so the comparison is meaningless. If you're expecting it to be like 2010 then, yeah, it's a non-event. But it was never advertised as such.

Yeah you're right, they've been selling this so hard for the last week as the biggest nationwide snow event (mid whatever season) in living memory*, people are convincing themselves 2 cm is deep.

(*living memory may include goldfish)

Morby · 02-03-2018 04:24AM

Anyone know how long we can expect these conditions to last? Any end in sight anytime soon?

JupiterKid · 02-03-2018 04:24AM

It seems that Ireland just can't handle some unusually cold conditions and snow. It's ridiculous.

Stay warm and safe people!

_Dara_ · 02-03-2018 04:30AM

wil wrote: »

Yeah you're right, they've been selling this so hard for the last week as the biggest nationwide snow event (mid whatever season) in living memory*, people are convincing themselves 2 cm is deep.

(*living memory may include goldfish)

The snowfall is highly variable depending on where you are which means that for many people, it seems like a non-event. But where I am, we've had deep accumulations and I'm even way behind what others have reported here. I think over the three nights, I'm probably looking at between 20 and 30 cms, maybe more even! It's been snowing constantly for almost 24 hours.

And actually, in 2010, snowfall was very variable too. I was living in the west at the time and we got much less snow than the east. Quite small amounts actually but because it was cold, that small amount lay on the ground for weeks.

_Dara_ · 02-03-2018 04:31AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

It seems that Ireland just can't handle some unusually cold conditions and snow. It's ridiculous.

Seriously?

flas · 02-03-2018 04:36AM

wil wrote: »

Yeah you're right, they've been selling this so hard for the last week as the biggest nationwide snow event (mid whatever season) in living memory*, people are convincing themselves 2 cm is deep.

(*living memory may include goldfish)

In some parts of the country its far far deeper snow...here in the.north midlands we have snow knee deep...its nothing have seen before in my 30 years..and its only going to get worse if it freezes solid after!

Clickbait · 02-03-2018 04:37AM

Are we working tomorrow or not?

YFlyer · 02-03-2018 04:39AM

Vincent Vega wrote: »

From reddit.
https://twitter.com/NiallwMorris/status/969387617925156864

It was just everyone heading to laba at the same time.

J. Marston · 02-03-2018 04:39AM

It really does look amazing when so much of it settles. Front garden and path are currently under maybe 3-4 inches of a perfect white carpet of snow.

AllForIt · 02-03-2018 04:40AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

It seems that Ireland just can't handle some unusually cold conditions and snow. It's ridiculous.

Stay warm and safe people!

In what way are we not handling it? The biggest issues is the roads and the only way that can be solved is by having an army of slow ploughs at the ready across the whole county, which if we had would actually be ridiculous since these kinds of events occur only once in a decade if that.

paleoperson · 02-03-2018 05:21AM

It barely even snowed here yesterday until late evening. There's a bit of snow today in that it actual covered the ground properly. Five or six years ago there was weather MUCH worse than this. Sure maybe tonight I didn't go out and it'll be worse overall (?) but it's not like we have to go in a car journey. I can't hear the wind blowing harshly, I don't feel cold.

I'll have a look tomorrow after waking up and I'm almost hoping there'll be a good couple of feet of thick snow, otherwise I feel cheated!

paleoperson · 02-03-2018 05:34AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

It seems that Ireland just can't handle some unusually cold conditions and snow. It's ridiculous.

Stay warm and safe people!

I feel ashamed to be Irish.

Wowbagger · 02-03-2018 05:57AM

"It's beginning to snow again. The flakes, silver and dark, are falling obliquely against the lamplight. It's probably falling all over the island; on the central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the graveyards, upon the crosses and headstones, upon all the living and the dead..."

pleas advice · 02-03-2018 06:02AM

YFlyer wrote: »

It was just everyone heading to laba at the same time.

good night Mary Ellen

fg1406 · 02-03-2018 06:46AM

paleoperson wrote: »

It barely even snowed here yesterday until late evening. There's a bit of snow today in that it actual covered the ground properly. Five or six years ago there was weather MUCH worse than this. Sure maybe tonight I didn't go out and it'll be worse overall (?) but it's not like we have to go in a car journey. I can't hear the wind blowing harshly, I don't feel cold.

I'll have a look tomorrow after waking up and I'm almost hoping there'll be a good couple of feet of thick snow, otherwise I feel cheated!

I know! We had more snow Wednesday than we had in the past 24 hours. 2010 was much worse. There were drifts of 6 inches then. We have 2-3 inches in the garden and it’s thawed out on the cars.

Casualsingby · 02-03-2018 06:49AM

Under a red warning for 25 hours and not a bit of snow, changed to orange and not a bit of snow lol. Schools closed for 2 days for nothing.

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 02-03-2018 06:49AM

Jaysus just looked out the front. There's drifts of 6 feet out there!

_Dara_ · 02-03-2018 06:56AM

paleoperson wrote: »

Five or six years ago there was weather MUCH worse than this.

fg1406 wrote: »

I know! We had more snow Wednesday than we had in the past 24 hours. 2010 was much worse. There were drifts of 6 inches then. We have 2-3 inches in the garden and it’s thawed out on the cars.

It was never said that this would be on a par with 2010.

And 2010 saw great variations in snowfall too. Where I was in the west actually had quite a small amount of snowfall despite the cold. But because it was midwinter and well below freezing even during the day, the small amount compacted and lingered.

Some people in this country will be waking up to deep drifts this morning.

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