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

revelman · 02-03-2018 07:07PM

RTE news reporter just said that “metres of snow have fallen in County Meath”

endacl · 02-03-2018 07:08PM

Tzardine wrote: »

Been thawing here (Monasterevin) all day. No snow to speak of today.

Now raining very lightly (Drizzle).

Packing for a move to Monasterevin!

D9Male · 02-03-2018 07:08PM

Stopping in Dublin 9 ,😒

JDD · 02-03-2018 07:08PM

Yeah I think they got the blizzard days wrong. Has been chucking it down here in Booterstown since 9am. Never seen snow this deep. This is going to take a week to thaw.

God I hope my childminder can drive up from bray on Monday. Cabin fever by Monday will be at St. John of gods levels ðŸ˜†

honeybear · 02-03-2018 07:09PM

I’m sick of all the wedding stories

RustyGate · 02-03-2018 07:09PM

MJohnston wrote: »

I was sitting earlier looking out at all my neighbours wearing themselves out for hours clearing and shovelling snow off their driveways...not even 3 hours later and all of it is completely buried again.

I seriously wonder how people are so bad at understanding forecasts...or maybe they did understand but just wanted away from their husbands or wives for a couple of hours

I could be wrong but I thought ME or maybe it was the National Emergency folks did announce early this morning that it would be sleet and rain today with no further accumulation, only to rapidly change their minds when the snow intensified instead, so maybe that misled some people ?

stephenjmcd · 02-03-2018 07:10PM

Love the snow but not the prolonged event now. Waiting on post to come from limerick early next week so hopefully things start to resume

bloopy · 02-03-2018 07:10PM

Just back from a long walk and get the impression from the thread that more snowfall is forecast tonight. Has there been a change to the forecast in the last hour or 2?

Colibri · 02-03-2018 07:11PM

Snowing again in Cork (Douglas) lol

sunbabe08 · 02-03-2018 07:11PM

snowing again on the northside of cork city!!!!:D:D

SleetAndSnow · 02-03-2018 07:12PM

Lightly snowing again in Wilton/Bishopstown Cork City. Heaviest stuff looks like it will miss us though.

Mahony0509 · 02-03-2018 07:12PM

Snowing again, Rochestown in Cork.

Larbre34 · 02-03-2018 07:12PM

bloopy wrote: »

Just back from a long walk and get the impression from the thread that more snowfall is forecast tonight. Has there been a change to the forecast in the last hour or 2?

Yes indeed, Red Warning has been extended in many eastern counties to 0900 tomorrow

polydactyl · 02-03-2018 07:14PM

D9Male wrote: »

Stopping in Dublin 9 ,ðŸ˜’

Not in my part is isn’t (hoping it will soon!!!)

Daemonic · 02-03-2018 07:14PM

Still snowing in Celbridge. No significant letup for best part of 3 days. I think we just have to accept this new ice-age.

Wheety · 02-03-2018 07:14PM

The back garden will be flooded when this melts.

cherryghost · 02-03-2018 07:14PM

Less than 100m visibility in Clondalkin. Plough and tractor stuck in drift.

awec · 02-03-2018 07:14PM

It looks like it's raining in D18 now.

Not sure if it's actually rain, but the windows have water drops all over them as if it was rain and that's the first time we've seen that during this whole storm. Maybe the snow is so fine now it's melting as soon as it hits a window.

kittyn · 02-03-2018 07:15PM

awec wrote: »

It looks like it's raining in D18 now.

Not sure if it's actually rain, but the windows have water drops all over them as if it was rain and that's the first time we've seen that during this whole storm.

Its certainly not rain........ Fine snow most likely

Vxlks · 02-03-2018 07:16PM

When is it supposed to stop in South Dublin?

Also will it get heavier?

kittyn · 02-03-2018 07:16PM

Vxlks wrote: »

When is it supposed to stop in South Dublin?

Also will it get heavier?

Tomorrow morning at some stage I'm afraid

cdeb · 02-03-2018 07:16PM

Non-stop all day in Greystones, and eastern clouds still dark. This is incredible stuff.

nacho libre · 02-03-2018 07:18PM

endacl wrote: »

Power City in Tallaght have the record for the latest snow I've ever seen. In 2010 they cleared the carpark into a big compressed heap that was still there 5 weeks after everything else melted. A shadow of its former massive self, but still there.

Still thumping down in Tallaght/Firhouse. For the record, I'm very much of the 'snow is a pain in the hole' camp. Any of the wise forecasters here willing to predict when life can go back to normal?

Tomorrow the thaw sets in. It will be a gradual thaw as tempertures will still be well below normal for much of the country

Steopo · 02-03-2018 07:19PM

yermandan wrote: »

Gonna have to get shovelling before the thaw. Dreading it already!

Still bucketing down in Sallins, Kildare.

Take it handy on the shovelling. This is not a joke but one of the main causes of deaths from snow events is people shovelling snow particularly for anyone over 50.