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Winter 20/21 - General Discussion

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭mcburns07


    A balmy 12 degrees here in east Cork, it feels it too. So damp and gloomy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    I can't wait for this week to end for two reasons; hopefully we will be closer to a good cold spell and i will be glad to see the back of all this rain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭4Ad


    A gloomy 10 degrees in East Clare...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 366 ✭✭daniel_t1409


    A completely miserable day here in wexford. Raining basically all day here. The worst kind of weather. I wish we could bring back the cold sunny weather :(


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    a cool day here in Meath, high of 5C and rain looks like it's about to get going here and much milder air following.

    temp_uk.png


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,238 ✭✭✭Oneiric 3


    Might sound a bit weird, and I think it is, but there is a smell of snow outside.

    New Moon



  • Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭gerrybhoy


    Oneiric 3 wrote: »
    Might sound a bit weird, and I think it is, but there is a smell of snow outside.

    My young fella said the same there he was putting stuff in the bin and came in saying he could smell snow :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Oneiric 3 wrote: »
    Might sound a bit weird, and I think it is, but there is a smell of snow outside.

    Well im smelling rain soi just had a look outside and low and behold, its raining ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭KingJeremy


    Snow has a smell??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭lolie


    KingJeremy wrote: »
    Snow has a smell??

    Yellow snow :pac:


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    Well it’s raining and 1c at 320 metres here. So no chance of snow there.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    https://twitter.com/SeaStudio_ie/status/1349012443121545216?s=19

    Zoom in
    Snowdonia is always visible from croghan too here in South Wicklow and on good days from Arklow rock
    Theres a very tall peak visible from croghan which I've always assumed to be snowdon
    You can also roam on uk mobile networks up there


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    I can see the two peaks in Jura. And many other Scottish hills.

    Arran

    owUONQz.jpg

    Ayrshire

    7bHU2Gk.jpg

    Alissa Craig:

    sRnMdAk.jpg

    Mull of Kintyre:

    G0EfKiu.jpg

    I have even seen the lighthouses flashing on and off on Islay at times.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    Mull of Kintyre:

    SroPopA.jpg

    Mull of Kintyre windmills:

    7yH2zSM.jpg

    Isle of Man:

    f6ZgLIy.jpg


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Nqp15hhu wrote: »
    I can see the two peaks in Jura. And many other Scottish hills.

    Arran

    https://i.imgur.com/owUONQz.jpg

    Ayrshire
    ]https://i.imgur.com/7bHU2Gk.jpg

    Alissa Craig:

    https://i.imgur.com/sRnMdAk.jpg

    Mull of Kintyre:

    https://i.imgur.com/G0EfKiu.jpg

    I have even seen the lighthouses flashing on and off on Islay at times.

    In fine Summer weather down here pre satellite days,we used be able to receive BBC one Scotland
    As a norm we had BBC 1&2 Wales and ITV wales (HTV) and laterally ch 5 off a simple aerial from a transmitter in Wales
    The digital version off the aerial comes in perfectly from wales today now
    No need for satellite
    We even have DAB radio from there
    Quare handy
    We can't pick up anything from Northern Ireland as the wicklow mountains block it but can just about get radio Ulster on AM
    Manx radio blasts in
    I digress :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    I’m not sure about TV channels but we can pick up all the Ayrshire and Argyllshire radio stations pretty clearly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Was down at the Raven in Wexford in early July 2018. Could only receive UK mobile signal!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    Picking up Scottish Radio from Northern Ireland’s north coast

    https://youtu.be/iYwlx5jqDuM


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    I seen that Dublin live has us having a beast from the east as early as the 19th


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Marco has very kindly shown us tonight the kind of air I'd expect us to be advecting late next week bringing us all a very Snowy wonderland
    Just pinch and zoom Scandinavia and all points east of it into Russia

    https://twitter.com/Petagna/status/1349134790532935686?s=19


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno




  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    AuntySnow wrote: »
    In fine Summer weather down here pre satellite days,we used be able to receive BBC one Scotland
    As a norm we had BBC 1&2 Wales and ITV wales (HTV) and laterally ch 5 off a simple aerial from a transmitter in Wales
    The digital version off the aerial comes in perfectly from wales today now
    No need for satellite
    We even have DAB radio from there
    Quare handy
    We can't pick up anything from Northern Ireland as the wicklow mountains block it but can just about get radio Ulster on AM
    Manx radio blasts in
    I digress :D

    probably going slightly off topic here but back in the analogue days high pressure in the summer would sometimes give us signals here in Meath that are well outside their range of transmission.

    We could always get the Northern Ireland stations but would often lose them completely during warm weather. On these rare occasions I would sometimes get the welsh channels. During the summer 1995 heatwave I remember picking up briefly some stations from South-western England and even a very hazy reception of some french stations in Secam mode, the tv we had at the time was both Pal and Secam. Once the 1995 heatwave departed we never saw the french channels ever again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Yeah, I remember a few years we weren't able to watch the World Snooker final because of interference of S4C on the BBC1 signal here. Feckin nuisance. Always happened in high pressure, when ducting of the signal would occur under the subsidence inversion, allowing otherwise out-of-range signals to make it this far. It's the same process that causes anaprop on rainfall radar.

    These young scuts nowadays wouldn't know what we're talking about. Think of the worst wifi you can get. That's how frustrating it was.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭Donegal Storm


    Danno wrote: »

    The trees were like that in 2010 around here, albeit with persistent freezing fog the entire time so never got that crazy contrast with the sky


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Yeah, I remember a few years we weren't able to watch the World Snooker final because of interference of S4C on the BBC1 signal here. Feckin nuisance. Always happened in high pressure, when ducting of the signal would occur under the subsidence inversion, allowing otherwise out-of-range signals to make it this far. It's the same process that causes anaprop on rainfall radar.

    These young scuts nowadays wouldn't know what we're talking about. Think of the worst wifi you can get. That's how frustrating it was.

    Yup tropospheric ducting
    Theres even charts for enthusiasts who chase the tv and radio signal gold it delivers
    So it's actually somewhat on topic :D
    I've the tv set to auto tune here so sometimes receive French muxes from Brittany
    Regular visitors to the TV tuner would be from Cornwall and Devon

    https://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo_eur.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭Calibos


    The trees were like that in 2010 around here, albeit with persistent freezing fog the entire time so never got that crazy contrast with the sky

    Looked in my photo archive and this is the best of mine I could find. Photo is the morning of 28/11/2010

    539304.JPG

    No chance of replication this year no matter how much snow we get as the council trimmed the branches off the trees just before CHristmas to use up their funding before the end of the year.

    While looking for the photo above I came across a snow cover map for Feb 5th 2012 which I mentioned in the snow thread. It was in relation to someone saying how disgusted they were that Spain of all places was getting a dumping of snow and we got very little. I mentioned that it was when Greece and Turkey, Syria and Libya/Tunisia in North Africa get snow and we don't, thats when I get really cranky. I remembered the SNow cover map but couldn't find it that day. Feb 2012 was SSW year and the whole Northern Hemisphere got covered including North Africa and yet the Snow Cover stopped at the Welsh Coast. ANyway, my memory wasn't faulty. Feb 2012 Ireland was the most Northly snow free place on the planet by far. An oasis of green in a sea of white.

    https://imgur.com/DUR5rNM


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Funsterdelux


    Balmy mild morning here in North Cork, it was like a summer morning when the sun came out for a while.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Little snowy old me


    Big backtrack by the models away from cold and snow. Looking like it's game over. It was all to good to be true anyway. So it's Atlantic muck for the rest of the winter... very disappointing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,786 ✭✭✭giveitholly


    Big backtrack by the models away from cold and snow. Looking like it's game over. It was all to good to be true anyway. So it's Atlantic muck for the rest of the winter... very disappointing

    But but what about all those council workers getting the snow ploughs ready?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Little snowy old me


    But but what about all those council workers getting the snow ploughs ready?

    What's your point? They were told to be on alert.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭pad199207


    10° in Kildare. Feels positively balmy


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,283 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    pad199207 wrote: »
    10° in Kildare. Feels positively balmy

    Touching 11c in Dublin 16 (10.9c).

    First +10c temp here in nearly 4 weeks! Have to go back to December 18th.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭bazlers


    Has anyone the number of the Donegal postman ; )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭pad199207


    bazlers wrote: »
    Has anyone the number of the Donegal postman ; )

    Ya dirty aul yoke


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Goldfinch8


    Balmy mild morning here in North Cork, it was like a summer morning when the sun came out for a while.
    I would dearly love a few minutes of that North Cork sunshine here today! I have not seen a bit of sun since sometime over the weekend. The last few days have been grim, grey and predominantly wet here in this part of the west. Today is another day of the sky nearly scraping the ground again and you wouldn't even think that there were hills or mountains nearby. I yearn for those bright, crisp and frosty days of last week.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Goldfinch8 wrote: »
    I would dearly love a few minutes of that North Cork sunshine here today! I have not seen a bit of sun since sometime over the weekend. The last few days have been grim, grey and predominantly wet here in this part of the west. Today is another day of the sky nearly scraping the ground again and you wouldn't even think that there were hills or mountains nearby. I yearn for those bright, crisp and frosty days of last week.

    Same here. I have not seen the Sun in several days now. I know the last cold spell was frustrating in many ways, but at least we had some nice cold and dry days not this god awful muck.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 366 ✭✭daniel_t1409


    The sun came out for a bit earlier on this morning in wexford but it's back to cloud now.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    11.4c in Arklow
    For sh1ts and giggles,open netweather or Two and read the model threads on what was a dead cert for this week...the previous week and next
    Same people
    Same mistakes
    Same rubbish
    Experts Mar dhea


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Yeah as soon as I saw the latest model runs I knew there would be carnage over on Netweather. I see Steve Murr got banned from Netweather for a while.


  • Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭KingJeremy


    Yeah as soon as I saw the latest model runs I knew there would be carnage over on Netweather. I see Steve Murr got banned from Netweather for a while.

    So is it really game-over for the next predicted upcoming cold spell? Damn :-( I wasn’t even holding out for snow but would love a repeat of the below zero, icy and frosty conditions we had last week


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    By the way T+ 168 models were wrong last week
    They could be wrong last night
    This situation could still easily flip and settle on a cold solution next week
    In theory it should at least for a week or two
    I'm going back to basics and watching the BBC TV forecasts like we did in the good old 1980s and when there's a sniff of Easterly or northeasterly off them,I'll check wetterzentrale and will be back here like a shot

    Nudging 12c now in Arklow
    Southwest Wind with weather systems forecast to spread from the southwest in the next few days
    The Atlantic is alive and well and governing our weather as normal despite under attack from a series of strat warms,the first of which is stronger than 2018,a very weak about to be splt polar vortex, the villain that we usually blame for this kind of weather
    Let's hope it's not a scamstrat we're dealing with here
    We'll soon know


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,999 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    another horrible day here in Meath, very mild but wet and breezy. The local mean temperature is rising rapidly, was 0.4 on Monday, today it is 1.5C. It should easily get to 3C by the weekend.


  • Registered Users Posts: 129 ✭✭murfo


    AuntySnow wrote: »
    By the way T+ 168 models were wrong last week
    They could be wrong last night

    Does anyone keep stats of how often patterns verify for every run past T+ 120?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    KingJeremy wrote: »
    So is it really game-over for the next predicted upcoming cold spell? Damn :-( I wasn’t even holding out for snow but would love a repeat of the below zero, icy and frosty conditions we had last week

    I wouldn’t say that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    KingJeremy wrote: »
    So is it really game-over for the next predicted upcoming cold spell? Damn :-( I wasn’t even holding out for snow but would love a repeat of the below zero, icy and frosty conditions we had last week
    I think a prolonged cold spell that guarantees snow as the main type of precipitation is looking less likely now. There may be slight changes, but an upgrade to a deep freeze looks unlikely. We could well have snow at times, but there will be a lot of cold rain about if the latest output is correct. Hopefully we will get cold and dry weather at some point. The Met Eireann long range forecast hints at it becoming drier into February. Hopefully, if there is no big freeze to come, that signal can be brought forward.


  • Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭KingJeremy


    I think a prolonged cold spell that guarantees snow as the main type of precipitation is looking less likely now. There may be slight changes, but an upgrade to a deep freeze looks unlikely. We could well have snow at times, but there will be a lot of cold rain about if the latest output is correct. Hopefully we will get cold and dry weather at some point. The Met Eireann long range forecast hints at it becoming drier into February. Hopefully, if there is no big freeze to come, that signal can be brought forward.

    Thanks Nacho. I’m ok with no snow - we didn’t get any from the last spell either. But would like another go at the freezing dry weather we had recently...not so much cold rain though :-/


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    murfo wrote: »
    Does anyone keep stats of how often patterns verify for every run past T+ 120?

    I do sometimes
    Verification of day 10 is poor
    Day 5 can also be 50:50
    In between poor on the detail but sometimes OK on the over arching


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    Kinda frustrated that tomorrow’s event will fall as snow in southern Scotland only 70-80 miles away.

    This happens a few times a winter. Not sure why the boundary always falls on the other side of the Irish Sea.


  • Registered Users Posts: 129 ✭✭murfo


    AuntySnow wrote: »
    I do sometimes
    Verification of day 10 is poor
    Day 5 can also be 50:50
    In between poor on the detail but sometimes OK on the over arching

    Neeeeeeeeerd! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    KingJeremy wrote: »
    Thanks Nacho. I’m ok with no snow - we didn’t get any from the last spell either. But would like another go at the freezing dry weather we had recently...not so much cold rain though :-/

    After 4 days of grey and damp weather, i'm ok with no snow too, a few dry and crisp days would be great. I never thought i'd say something like that:pac:


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