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

Rebelbrowser · 02-03-2018 04:19PM

Red Nissan wrote: »

Can't agree, over exaggeration highest gust today was a mere 22km/h @ 13:32

At time of your post, a few were already posting a thaw, at thaw that now @ 15:10 is in full swing.

There's no blizzard and there is probably some thaw but its hardly noticeable as the snow is still falling heavily and its a net increase hour by hour. Now 20cm in every part of my garden in suburbia. Its 40 to 80cm up against walls. Oh and MT reckons there is 20 to 40cm more to come!

Kermit.de.frog · 02-03-2018 04:19PM

Temp down to freezing at Howth. DP -1.1c.

This stuff will start to settle - just a little lower.

now online · 02-03-2018 04:20PM

Woods near my house, a winter wonderland

wakka12 · 02-03-2018 04:20PM

200motels wrote: »

Lads how do you post an image?

You need to upload it online most people seem to use imgur..then when you're making a post click on the little square icon of mountain with yellow sky and copy in the image url

Route1 · 02-03-2018 04:20PM

When is this expected to start melting?

Paully D · 02-03-2018 04:21PM

No let up at all since Wednesday evening in my location (south-east coast). Snow levels up to my knees here (I’m well over 6 foot!).

Power has recently gone too which is when things start to become more difficult as living rurally, I cannot see any way crews can get out here for the next couple of days. Powerbanks about to run out of charge soon and it looks like Tayto sandwiches and milk for the foreseeable.

Stay safe everyone!

spookwoman · 02-03-2018 04:22PM

https://twitter.com/socodutweets/status/969557612659445760

wakka12 · 02-03-2018 04:22PM

Route1 wrote: »

When is this expected to start melting?

Gradually..from tonight onwards but clearly some places have already started thawing..most places should be relatively snow free by monday with snow still lasting from some of the huge drifts though

whattodo1 · 02-03-2018 04:23PM

My back garden now Tinahely Co wicklow

gumgum1 · 02-03-2018 04:23PM

Well im half way between enniscorthy and wexford . we have at 2 to 3 feet of snow with drifts covering the car .. definitely a red warning event

AAAAAAAAA · 02-03-2018 04:24PM

Snow above knee height in Arklow now, a jeep was abandoned in the middle of the road near me

pad199207 · 02-03-2018 04:24PM

Starting to come down heavy in Naas

LookingFor · 02-03-2018 04:24PM

Just had a walkabout in D15. Some footpaths are relatively fine, just a normal kind of snow, on the next road foothpaths have deep drifts in places, up and over garden walls. Not easy to negotiate. Definitely a lot more snow around than yesterday, and it still hasn't stopped.

wakka12 · 02-03-2018 04:24PM

Im gonna miss this snow I wish events like this weren't so rare. Really makes so ridiculously happy.. I feel under pressure to take so many pics right now for memories haha

appledrop · 02-03-2018 04:24PM

Blizzard like conditions again now in North County Dublin. We had none all day so I was hoping that was the end of it! Cabin fever now. Have a small toddler so going outside for 5 mins all he really is able for.

revelman · 02-03-2018 04:24PM

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Some of the heavy appearance to the radar near Welsh coast is due to ice pellets or hail giving a stronger return. There is an elevated warm sector being mixed out as a result of compression of descending air from Welsh highlands.

My guess at this point is that Emma has risen from the canvas and will stagger on towards Kerry, taking the next 18 hours to get there, and with no significant warm advection and the approach of night, just enough cooling in the boundary layers to overcome phase change in the south except possibly sw Cork and s Kerry briefly late tonight.

This means incredibly another 20-40 cm of snow possible in parts of the south and Wicklow, Wexford. Another 10-30 cm possible Dublin to Galway. Snow moisture content is increasing but may stabilize after 21z.

Emma's sister appears to want some of this action too, she's lined up behind Emma now taking almost the same track.

I am not that sold on any model depictions of warm advection, even limited, especially if lows don't push inland. Seen this movie before, cold over heavy snow is hard to budge, and seas are getting colder by the day (4-6 C widespread in North Sea and Baltic 1-3 C).

Would take this day by day and expect only a very gradual melt although urban heat islands and faint warmth of March sun even through partlial cloud will keep a slow thaw going in cities. Rather than flooding there will be ponding. Businesses with flat roofs and more than 30 cm snow cover would be well advised to try to clear their roofs by Monday, leaks will begin when the snow gets saturated and there can be collapses if it rains.

M.T. Cranium on the technical thread suggests that it will take Emma 18 hours to pass over Kerry with 20-40cm of snow for the south, Wexford and Wicklow! This tallies with what we are experiencing here on the south Coast. Conditions have been exactly the same since 8am this morning. What is best described as moderate snow has been falling constantly since 8am. We already have significant accumulations here. Another 40cm would mean we won’t be able to open our windows here!

What Username Guidelines · 02-03-2018 04:25PM

Any benefit in digging down to drain gulleys on road to help when the thaw starts?

Been snowing non stop here in Firhouse since last night and have almost 2ft in front and back garden.

obriener2054 · 02-03-2018 04:25PM

Waist deep on the road outside the house here in Manor Kilbride

Pretzill · 02-03-2018 04:26PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

My Mother sent me this...the dog thinks it's food!

My dog does the same. Snow must taste nice to them

whattodo1 · 02-03-2018 04:27PM

Deedsie wrote: »

That looks picture perfect. Very nice

Thank you

Kiith · 02-03-2018 04:27PM

You have to be a stupid ****ing idiot to go swimming on a day like this. You should absolutely be prosecuted for it.

wakka12 · 02-03-2018 04:29PM

Just realised I haven't turned on my TV since tuesday evening..who needs a Tv when you have snow to look at

jamesbere · 02-03-2018 04:29PM

Bit of a thaw in Cork City, but nothing significant. Still bits of snow coming down.

Just walked from college road to Saint lukes. Fairly tired but worth it

optogirl · 02-03-2018 04:29PM

Kiith wrote: »

You have to be a stupid ****ing idiot to go swimming on a day like this. You should absolutely be prosecuted for it.

and still we get the damp squid (sic), non event merchants harping on & on about how their garden, road, village is grand. It's that kind of stuff that gives people a bullish attitude to the weather as if they are proving something by not being cautious. Lucky another person wasn't dragged in after that woman splashing around in the fooking sea in a snow storm.

patneve2 · 02-03-2018 04:30PM

Really picking up. Great intensity now with medium sized flakes dalkey

Snowbie · 02-03-2018 04:30PM

Heavy snow
0.8C

cnocbui · 02-03-2018 04:31PM

If only we would get some snow.

aisling86 · 02-03-2018 04:31PM

revelman wrote: »

M.T. Cranium on the technical thread suggests that it will take Emma 18 hours to pass over Kerry with 20-40cm of snow for the south, Wexford and Wicklow! This tallies with what we are experiencing here on the south Coast. Conditions have been exactly the same since 8am this morning. What is best described as moderate snow has been falling constantly since 8am. We already have significant accumulations here. Another 40cm would mean we won’t be able to open our windows here!

I was watching the rte news special & Gerry Murphy said the warnings will be extended at 4pm.

2nd Row Donkey · 02-03-2018 04:32PM

Kiith wrote: »

You have to be a stupid ****ing idiot to go swimming on a day like this. You should absolutely be prosecuted for it.

Totally agree. Until there's some sort of accountability these idiots will keep putting others lives at risk.

cabledude · 02-03-2018 04:32PM

Started showing at yesterday evening around 8 pm and seems as though it hasn't stopped since.

Around my home there are accumulations of 2ft+ with drifts of 4-5 feet.

My car is disappearing gradually as the day goes by.

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