nacho libre wrote: » I wonder why the ecm was showing the pv reorganising earlier on then. I hope we get one more easterly blast- a long shot, i know. I miss the ice days and seeing everything white. Maybe if i had witnessed as much as some people here had, i might think differently:pac:, though. I really hope you're right about low solar activity meaning we will see severe cold outbreaks sooner rather than later in the future. Although i doubt we will see anything quite like the last few days ever again in Ireland.
wakka12 wrote: » Would I be right in saying this event would be exceptional in any country on earth? I doubt theres any urban area in the nordic or east european nations or russia or canada or usa that deal with the level of snow some inland leinster counties did in such a small timeframe
igCorcaigh wrote: » Care to predict what that could mean for us weather wise?
sryanbruen wrote: » Don't forget that we have the Canadian Warming now to impact the troposphere - as well as a third warming spike that occurred on Tuesday. We already have intense blocking in place so the impacts are going to be very interesting.
MrDerp wrote: » I was in Stockholm for this:https://www.thelocal.se/20161110/stockholm-just-set-a-new-snow-record I got up in the morning and a Swedish colleague rang me advising me to take the metro instead of a taxi. Got to a client site and the most anyone was late for a workshop was 20 minutes. Took the Arlanda express on plowed lines and got to the airport on time. There was constant snow and my plane needed a second deicing but got away just 55 minutes late and made my connecting flight home in Frankfurt. It’s all relative to climate and infrastructure, and many people were caught out, but they’re well prepared to carry on within the city because of metro and the airport being equipped to manage without too many cancelled flights. I was like a gom in work shoes sliding around in flat soles with wet socks but even I got there
cabledude wrote: » The newborn baby girls will be called Emma, the boys, Beast.
Pauliedragon wrote: » Theres been a lot of bored people the last couple of days. Note to all the midwives, don't look for time off around late November I see a big spike in the birthrate in parts of the country.
Kermit.de.frog wrote: » The remnants of the cold air are still with us waiting to clear north. Just enough that a little more sleet and snow developing than anticipated along that front moving north over the southern half of the country at the moment. Perhaps a bit of a top up on current accumulations of snow for inland locations.
sryanbruen wrote: » 2. The lowest in 1982 was -14.6c at Birr on January 12th
Pelvis Parsley wrote: » Now that the worst is over... I work for one of the major Irish utilities, won't say which one, but you can probably guess, and I just want to chime in with a few words of thanks-not just directly to you MT, for your forecasts both here and on FB, but also to all the other skilled forecasters here, who dispense what is often bad news, without drama, overstatement, and always in a measured way, often a week or more ahead of the (understandably more conservative) professional meteorological bodies. While we as a company would rely on the likes of Met Eireann in an official capacity, your collective hard work has allowed me (in my job, which involves planning for, and dealing with such widespread weather issues and interruptions to service) to plan ahead at a local level, to be ahead of the curve when it comes to preparedness, and to hit the ground running when it comes to getting people back. What's said here obviously doesn't form the be all and end all of how we deal with such events, but I just want to reiterate that the work all of you are doing is making a real difference, not only to individuals, but to communities and towns across Ireland-so much so that MT, at the risk of embarrassing you, you are now referred to in planning meetings, as "that chap in Canada, what is he saying this morning?" Thanks again!
sryanbruen wrote: » Nor should you ever use newspapers as a source for weather or statistics!
In 1982 the schools had just returned when they were confronted with a 36-hour storm on January 8 and 9 which hit the east of the country worst, heralding an extended holiday which lasted up to three weeks in some places. The initial storm dumped 26cm of snow on Dublin Airport, and two more blizzards arrived over the next 10 days, each arriving just as the nation was recovering from the previous one.
Cork Boy 53 wrote: » I doubt that it`s snow that falling. How high are you asl?
M.T. Cranium wrote: » Some other heavy snow events for your interest: ... a few years ago, can't say for sure what year, around 2015, coastal Alaska got severely buried by several metres of snow in towns such as Valdez. ... in late January of 1971, a week of heavy lake effect snow about 50 miles north of Toronto dropped 2-3 metres of snow in some parts of the Georgian Bay snow belt. This persisted on the ground for most of February in higher parts of the region stranding some rural people in their homes for weeks (except that most of them had snowmobiles so they were able to get to aid in nearby villages) ... snowfalls of that kind are fairly commonplace events in Great Lakes snow belt areas from time to time, another memorable event was the Buffalo Blizzard of late January 1977, generally six to ten feet of snow and paralyzing drifts accompanied by -15 C temperatures ... the source of that was Lake Erie. ... I can also recall very high snow packs and plow drifts in London, Ontario, in January 1976, something similar to what I see in the thread pictures only right in the middle of a fairly large city (300,000 people). There were 15 foot high snowbanks after plows "cleared" the residential streets and it was chaos for weeks. Fire hydrants were marked with tall red poles with flags on them so that crews would have some idea where to look. ... A blizzard that hit central Ontario April 2-3 1975 left behind 27" of snow that then blew into alternating bare spots and 8' drifts and that gradually froze solid as a strong April sun combined with record cold temperatures thawed the surface each day then it would freeze solid overnight. People were stranded in community centres and church halls as the storm hit on a weekend and trapped many Toronto weekend skiers and cottagers returning from (ill-advisedly) opening their summer cottages for the season. I was living in a rural area there and spent about a week immobilized in my house, as the roads could not be cleared. ... Final recent note, there were some very heavy snowfalls in New England and eastern Canada in the latter half of the winter of 2007-08 that produced some huge snow depths in Maine and New Brunswick, I seem to recall five feet -- this was not drifting snow just an accumulation from successive storms. They always talk about historical blizzards in New England and Long Island with snow up to the second storey windows, the most famous of them would be March 11th 1888 and a storm in late February of 1717 that may have been one of a series. Some prairie and northern plains states blizzards of the 1880s are also legendary. If I want to see three feet of snow, all I have to do is drive for fifteen minutes up the nearby west-facing slopes of the Selkirk Mountains and that's what I find at the top (more like a foot down here and that's starting to thaw). Picture to follow ... <snipped pic for quoting>
wakka12 wrote: » Wow really? did they see pictures of kildare and dublin?? I don't see how anyone, from anywhere, living in any altitude, couldn't be impressed/shocked by the drifts seen in towns in kildare wicklow and dublin..these are also in relatively low land areas, in march, in a country that rarely experiences snow
grenouille1966 wrote: » https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.independent.ie/entertainment/flashback-1982-ireland-comes-to-a-standstill-during-the-big-snow-34341111.html&ved=2ahUKEwjDtaLEh9HZAhWnL8AKHQdQBwEQFjABegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw2nQov4mRWUFu_dVC0LeOpS&cf=1 -19.6 in Glasnevin, Dublin 11 in 1982. Read the article. And yes, the French and the German still refer to Ireland as the British Isles in their tv reports. On purpose. Very insulting language. Wales got nothing in comparison to Ireland yet all the reports were coming from there on the French news. 2010 way more disruptive...three weeks plus ilof chaos on East coast and really cold temperatures.
Rebelbrowser wrote: » But ye had enough bread all the while MT.... Thats why our event trumps those!
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