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

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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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munsterlegend

Snowing away nicely here near Mallow. Looks plenty more on the way once we don't get rain!

leahyl

Lia_lia wrote: »

The footpath outside my house was thawed last night and now it’s covered in snow again!

Yeah but when you look at what some people up the east coast got....which is what we were all meant to get remember!

red_bairn

Cloudio9 wrote: »

Red alert needs to be downgraded for most areas. No reason why Dublin should not be more or less fully open for business this morning.

Are you sure?

28th March

2nd March

leahyl

munsterlegend wrote: »

Snowing away nicely here near Mallow. Looks plenty more on the way once we don't get rain!

Do you have a lot of snow munsterlegend?

Cloudio9

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

And your qualifications / background to decree this are ?

More snow on Wednesday and Thursday

Many multiples of this on the ground in 2010.

Reality is it hasn't played out as forecast. Not criticising anyone for getting the forecast wrong but they should acknowledge that and update the warnings to reflect the reality that people need to take care.

MaceFace

This is an example of a drift in Naas. Its hard to get across, but these are everywhere.
I ventured out and the cool thing is that you don't really sink in the snow. It's pretty solid underneath.

Wind still howling and snow still belting

MidMan25

View out the back of my house this morning. East Cork 3 miles from the coast!

sunbabe08

leahyl wrote: »

Snowing now where I am but not big flakes or anything....almost like dust particles :-P

i've a funny feeling like me you were expecting wind and blizzards conditions. but at the same time i'm ok with this.

Fruitgum

We have unreal amounts of snow in Kilcock! Scary stuff and still bucketing down!

SEPT 23 1989

Cloudio9 wrote: »

Red alert needs to be downgraded for most areas. No reason why Dublin should not be more or less fully open for business this morning.

I have 2ft of snow at my front door and there are drifts of 5-6ft in areas

Tried to wade through it got about ten yards but had to turn back as it's a blizzard and you literally can't get a breath horrible feeling

Newcastle Dublin

dak

Very little additional snow in Portmarnock overnight. Wind has quietened down a bit!

I expect my 16yr old daughter will be fuming today as we heeded the weather warning and didn't allow her go to a house party locally

Still better safe than sorry! Is Emma gone/ did she ever reach north Dublin?

grenouille1966

Massive drifts in Dublin 15 and snowing hard.

wakka12

Cloudio9 wrote: »

More snow on Wednesday and Thursday

Many multiples of this on the ground in 2010.

Reality is it hasn't played out as forecast. Not criticising anyone for getting the forecast wrong but they should acknowledge that and update the warnings to reflect the reality that people need to take care.

Think you need to look beyond your back garden portmarnock. The forecast wasn't wrong , here in south Dublin in rathgar the snow levels now are similar to the levels during the peak of 2010 snow around Christmas Day , the red level warning is warranted

irishrover99

Eh, we're gonna need more bread.

Just back from a walk around nutgrove and it's a blizzard out there.

Cloudio9

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

I'm presuming from this post you have been out and around Dublin this morning to make such a decision ?

You not just judging this from an IMBY perspective are you ?

Reports on here suggest some heavy falls around SW Dublin 14-16-24. Even then localised as people in Rathfarnham saying they got nothing much.

The reality is this has been very different from the forecast last night. Are you denying that ?

hhmmm?

Ok, who has a metre?

Lucreto

Naas here,

I am snowed in. All doors out of the house are blocked.

You can see only the head of the Buddha statue

The first image was today and the second is yesterday.

leahyl

sunbabe08 wrote: »

i've a funny feeling like me you were expecting wind and blizzards conditions. but at the same time i'm ok with this.

Well yes seeing as it was the main focus of the forecast!!

Lucreto

Naas here,

I am snowed in. All doors out of the house are blocked.

You can see only the head of the Buddha statue

Images won't upload for some reason.

Shane732

Cloudio9 wrote: »

Reports on here suggest some heavy falls around SW Dublin 14-16-24. Even then localised as people in Rathfarnham saying they got nothing much.

The reality is this has been very different from the forecast last night. Are you denying that ?

Just to say there is plenty of snow in Rathfarnham.

Bio Mech

Cloudio9 wrote: »

Reports on here suggest some heavy falls around SW Dublin 14-16-24. Even then localised as people in Rathfarnham saying they got nothing much.

The reality is this has been very different from the forecast last night. Are you denying that ?

I am in Dublin 15 ang there is no way I could get out to work. There was a significant additional snowfall overnight with a lot of drifting. Red justified.

RobertKK

It is red level here.
The wind has been picking up giving whiteout conditions in the stronger gusts, and the snow intensity has increased. The severity here on the hills north east of Kilkenny has definitely picked up in the last half hour.

RentDayBlues

So this is the updated pic from my dads house in longford. Snow drift are now at 4 feet on the road outside and they have no access

M.T. Cranium

Will be posting a forecast around 0800h, taking a while to work my way through the complexity of this storm.

Watching recent satellite animation, it was clear that the centre of the storm stalled off Brest, France and almost got pushed back slightly as the very strong easterly winds ahead of the storm are holding back its progress. This does not mean that the storm will "miss" Ireland as the storm is a whole set of cloud from frontal structures out ahead of the centre, and all of that will just sit in place until something changes to move it along. Think of it this way, instead of some moving Atlantic system that moves across the country in an organized way (albeit east to west in this case), we have a complex of sea effect mega-streamers that will only be shifted or terminated when the pressure gradient changes, and with Emma stalled, and the east winds howling across Wales and Cornwall, these mega-streamers will remain in place, sometimes they waver a little so not everybody gets the same weather hour after hour, but where there is a shadow effect as some places west of the Wicklow Mountains may be experiencing, that will likely remain in place until maybe this afternoon when there begins to be some motion westward of all this slow-moving energy.

Also, while early guidance was suggesting a weakening trend, the later model guidance has moved to a different track that continues slowly north until a jog to the west, and then some weakening after that.

I think the net effect of all this will be to maintain the status quo of weather you see for several more hours, followed by changes that any simple forecast will be inadequate to address, your best bet today is going to be to keep watching the radar and reports of other boards members to your east and expect some very slow westward progress of all the features -- so it could turn into stupendous amounts of snow in some places and very little in others.

average_runner

Cloudio9 wrote: »

Reports on here suggest some heavy falls around SW Dublin 14-16-24. Even then localised as people in Rathfarnham saying they got nothing much.

The reality is this has been very different from the forecast last night. Are you denying that ?

Put it this way, have you look at the cameras on the m50?

Lucan is a mess, so is tallaght and further south.
Yes city might be ok but people got to get there first. To open up transport your talking about a lot of cars on bad roads, accidents will happen. If the warning saves a life it's worth it.

Money is not everything your health is

dak

wakka12 wrote: »

Think you need to look beyond your back garden portmarnock. The forecast wasn't wrong , here in south Dublin in rathgar the snow levels now are similar to the levels during the peak of 2010 snow around Christmas Day , the red level warning is warranted

Have been looking at thread and read reports from South Dublin and rest of country I was specifically asking if anywhere in North Dublin was hit heavily by Emma. Being beside the sea we always get less snow so just curios!

lawred2

Advice to stay indoors had been lifted. Seems like the worst has passed.

North Dublin escaped the worst of it then

Cloudio9

Met Eireann have just lifted the stay indoors advice.

Some of you guys just don't like me calling it like it is :cool:

grenouille1966

Many places in Dublin and Wicklow I suspect will have had close to a METRE of snow when it stops snowing this evening.

Zoney

Limerick city, 9 hours of light snow non stop. Measured 5 cm (2 inches) on car roof, might be more elsewhere as some snow would have blown off.

Moderate snow now but seems a bit wetter. Consistency on the ground still fairly powdery but perfect for snowmen, not just dry dust.

Looks like if we are lucky, no let up here till the evening, but slow and steady accumulation