Cold Spell - Feb 7th to 13th 2021 - Chat

aisling86 wrote: »

The public have definitely jumped on the online ordering bandwagon for ski gear.....cannot get kids gloves anywhere! Waterproofs enroute!

Ordered* the kids some ski pants from Regatta back in mid January in anticipation... They arrived yesterday, so must be a sign!!

*If this goes tits up, the wife ordered them

aisling86 wrote: »

The public have definitely jumped on the online ordering bandwagon for ski gear.....cannot get kids gloves anywhere! Waterproofs enroute!

So glad I got that feeling in me Waters back in January after Bray got the 2 inches of Ninja Snow. ie. Felt that this Winter was going to deliver again.

Had most of what we needed in terms of gear but the Snowgrips for the boots/shoes I bought in 2018 where crap (Kept falling off boots and the studs kept falling out. The things were a worse trip/slip hazzard than the snow/ice itself!! )

So I ordered some YakTrax Pro Snowgrips from some Dublin Outdoors/Hiking place back in January.

New Snow Socks for the delivery Van should arrive today or tomorrow morning. Then I'm all set except for upping the Milk and Bread Orders for Monday and doing my own 10 day Grocery Shop this weekend.

...Oh and calling down to the fuel merchant and picking up some more logs and smokeless coal (Central Heating is working fine but theres nothing like a real log fire when there is snow outside. Chimney was cleaned for Christmas anyway)

Bring it On!!!

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piplip87 wrote: »

Jaysus little do they know at work the aul internet will be playing up big time next week I'd say does snow slow down broadband is one of the top searches in Ireland this week

As opposed to all the "work" all of us on here now are doing!

Maybe its just pure coincidence but in the Easterlies I remember (87, 91 and 2018) down here in Cork we got snow on day 1 of the easterly. In 87 and 91 that was it though. In 2018 it kept going mostly. But I wonder do Easterlies arriving in Ireland typically start out with SE winds and gradually migrate to E and NE as the days go by? Not much of a sample size I know...

Of course there were other easterlies I ignore as we got no snow down here at all! But i think those 3 are the big ones.

Lastly we got the same pattern in the late Dec 2010 spell too (loads of snow on 17 Dec being day 1 but nothing thereafter). But that came to us off the Atlantic (beefy showers from a NW wind) so I'm not including this. But interesting all the same that on the 4 big events I can recall (87, 91, 10 and 18) we got snow here in Cork on day 1. Actually its great when that happens as it calms the nerves from the off!

Models won't get a handle of sea-effect snow until around 48 hours before.

We need a E, NE or NNE or SSE for Cork! and to have 850hPa temperatures of -8 or lower, -10 is preferred for those closer to the coast.

Wind speed is crucial also as the stronger the wind the showers will likely give biggest deposits further inland due to friction and orographic effects.

Those closest to the coast tend to benefit from a more moderate air-flow.

Met Éireann just confirming Ireland shouldn’t be too impacted by snow. The UK will take the brunt of it

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Greetings. Can someone advise the times that the various models are published please? I've no idea how to interpret them but would be sure to check in here to hear the latest from those that do. Latest posts all suggest things looking good so I'm refreshing this page every 30 seconds or so. Thanks.

leahyl wrote: »

They have a frontal event on Sunday we don't have. Truth is no one knows about snow from these things til you see beefy splodges on the radar moving toward your location. Moreover, there is a real chance we get our own frontal event later next week. Great times...(well apart from the whole global pandemic and associated death, illness and house arrest)

derekon wrote: »

Met Éireann just confirming Ireland shouldn’t be too impacted by snow. The UK will take the brunt of it

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Probably technically true for 80% of the land area of Ireland. However the other 20% of the land area on the east coast contains nearly 50% of the Population. Even if they take into account that only a small swathe of the East Coast gets Snow Streamers from the forecasted Wind directions, then its still 1.5 million people affected in Dublin and parts of its adjoining counties.

In other words, they are choosing not to warn 1.5 million people in 4 counties so as not to have 3 million people in the other 22 counties moaning, "Wheres my snow??" or "Why TF did you make me bring my lambs in" ;)

I can guarantee come Friday or early Saturday morning Met Éireann will have a early advisory issued. I think it would be dangerous for anyone to downplay anything with such strong model outputs especially at this stage. The fine details will not be knowing really until later Saturday for the early days next week and for mid week it will probably be Sunday before we have any concrete evidence what will happen and how much longer this colder spell will last. My own personal view is near the end of next week we will see a more widespread event with snow. Leinster, Northern parts of Ulster and East Munster should see snow streamers effecting them as early as Sunday night to Wednesday with some mixing of sleet around coastal areas to start but more to snowfall from Monday afternoon. With the strength of the wind and in any beefy showers they should work there way further inland possible as far as eastern Connacht.

Little snowy old me wrote: »

Anyone else getting nervous that this is going to go pear shaped in the next 24 hours? Met E were more upbeat yesterday....

Hi fraxinus