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

Great picture, huge snow. We even had great snow in Dublin 5 near the coast, the whole coast road was covered in thick snow from Clontarf to Sutton. Storm Emma really delivered for Dublin, Kildare though was phenomenal snow depths as were parts of Wicklow and Wexford and Waterford

TTLF wrote: »

It wasn't even West Dublin. I know the south of Dublin was absolutely pelted with snow. I can recall so well the events and I even have them recorded!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmJhfmPyyxM&ab_channel=Vxlks) as seen here...

One of the biggest memories was MET EIREANN forecasting Orange Level warning for the GDA area on the night of the 27th. Roughly 7cm was forecast, but by about 4am I was counting about 10-12cm! and that was only day 1.

Once Thursday afternoon hit, we were put under a constant streamer for hours on end and eventually that night Storm Emma started to just about reach us with Ice pellets. Come Friday it was fat flakes and blizzard conditions by evening... by middle part of Friday I couldn't walk far outside my house before the snow was so deep that I got too tired to walk in it (and I was only 15 at the time!) To think... I got about 50cm in my locality due to being in a valley, if it was January I would've experienced scenes like in NYC the past week where the door is blocked by snow since it wouldn't melt... :eek:

Picture of my Garden there on March 3rd at about 9am.

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Great picture, huge snow. We even had great snow in Dublin 5 near the coast, the whole coast road was covered in thick snow from Clontarf to Sutton. Storm Emma really delivered for Dublin, Kildare though was phenomenal snow depths as were parts of Wicklow and Wexford and Waterford

really unfortunate that in the end, March 3rd's snow was rapidly melting due to Emma's warm influence... Truly an experience I'll never forget.

I just hope this time around streamer activity is good, my locality usually does very well in these streamer setups without much shadows bar the Anglesea. :pac:

Looks like whatever way it unfolds us poor unfortunates in Limerick are outliers....waaa, did I move here from North Cork for even LESS snow??

A couple of photos I took in my (northern) part of Kildare from 2018, just to get everyone even more excited!

The first is when I was out for a walk the day before Emma hit. Visibility was near zero at times.


The second was taken the day after the storm cleared. A stop sign can also be seen plus a man VERY slowly trying to make his way back to his house which was about 200m behind me. I'm standing in the middle of the road and you can see the line of the road between the hedges. What's of note is that those hedges are close to 2m high in places. As the road is orientated in a roughly north/south axis and the wind was mainly easterly, the snow collected between the hedgerows on either side of the road, right up to the tops of them so you could walk straight into the fields so I was in fact standing well above the road. This road was not cleared for several days as a driver had to abandon the car a few nights before and it became completely covered - for all I know I could have been standing directly above the car taking the photo.

Also of interest is the areas of green to be seen in the fields. Again, this was due the strength of the wind combined with the snow being extremely fine and dry so local topography played a massive role with regards to how deep the snow was at any particular point, unlike when you get the more usual wetter snow, often combined with light winds resulting in fairly even coverage.

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1357390049218805760?s=19

highdef wrote: »

A couple of photos I took in my (northern) part of Kildare from 2018, just to get everyone even more excited!

The first is when I was out for a walk the day before Emma hit. Visibility was near zero at times.


The second was taken the day after the storm cleared. A stop sign can also be seen plus a man VERY slowly trying to make his way back to his house which was about 200m behind me. I'm standing in the middle of the road and you can see the line of the road between the hedges. What's of note is that those hedges are close to 2m high in places. As the road is orientated in a roughly north/south axis and the wind was mainly easterly, the snow collected between the hedgerows on either side of the road, right up to the tops of them so you could walk straight into the fields so I was in fact standing well above the road. This road was not cleared for several days as a driver had to abandon the car a few nights before and it became completely covered - for all I know I could have been standing directly above the car taking the photo.

Also of interest is the areas of green to be seen in the fields. Again, this was due the strength of the wind combined with the snow being extremely fine and dry so local topography played a massive role with regards to how deep the snow was at any particular point, unlike when you get the more usual wetter snow, often combined with light winds resulting in fairly even coverage.

Newtown?

Forgot my ski pants in my parents place and we are 45 mins drive so I've asked the rents to send over by An Post.

Mum: I sent my wedding dress to Cork and it took 6 days...

Doesn't leave me with much confidence in getting the pants before the big snow.

arctictree wrote: »

I remember Feb 2009, we were buried in the Wicklow hills with streamer snow. In fact there's probably a thread here on it if you go back far enough!! Only other event to top it since was 2018 aka the beast...

Took these on the flight back from a Skiing Trip to Livignio in February '09. Roundwood may have got snowed in but Bray didn't see much from it as usual.

red_bairn wrote: »

Forgot my ski pants in my parents place and we are 45 mins drive so I've asked the rents to send over by An Post.

Mum: I sent my wedding dress to Cork and it took 6 days...

Doesn't leave me with much confidence in getting the pants before the big snow.

Have mine in the Wardrobe.

...but I've put on about 40lb since I last wore them :mad:

Wednesday onwards is still too far out and the models are as likely to flip back as Wednesday onwards comes into the more reliable time frames. Whatever the models say about Wednesday onwards on Saturday or Sunday is likely what will happen be that good or bad.

Yes many times when we had air as cold as this coming from the east it tended to get more prolonged in each forecast after it had arrived...the cold could definately get upgraded and prolonged...if the weather we got in the past is anything to go by

Snowfall forecast from the latest ECMWF for between Sun eve and Wed after. This could be Gonzo's moment:

Ecm snowfall accumulations are a downgrade on the previous run. Out to day 6 tiny to negligible amounts for most of the country.

https://weather.us/model-charts/euro/ireland/snow-depth-in/20210210-1200z.html

AuntySnow wrote: »

Tonights ECM version of Thursday is plausible plausible but as liikely only as last Thursday's for today

Yes but over Sunday,Monday ,Tuesday and Wednesday its expecting next to nothing to have accumulated. That's what the chart I supplied shows.