Winter 2021/2022 - General Discussion

Agreed, I was expecting it to get no further north than the Kildare/Meath border, at the VERY most. The heaviest area of precipitation was actually in quite a narrow band. The area was quite long, stretching from Leitrim to Dublin at one point but the heaviest stuff was only a few 10's of km wide within that band. Taking a north to south area of Navan/Trim/Summerhill/Kilcock/Clane/Naas: Navan got very little, Trim got a fair bit, Summerhill got the heaviest, Kilcock was similar to Trim, Clane a bit less and Naas not too much but more than Navan.

There was some settling from Trim to Kilcock, mainly due to evaporative cooling because of the intensity of the snow combined with some areas of higher ground (between about 100m and 130m), however it was generally just a little bit too warm for snow to settle.

On an aside note, the last little area precipitation is now moving southeast from around the Kinnegad/Enfield area towards the N7 (probably just east of Naas). It may be of snow but I expect it to be more mixed in nature.....perhaps full on snow on the higher stretches of the N7 around Kill.....but even at that I don't expect much, if any settling to occur.

A lot of snow in the Slieve Bloom Mountains this morning.

Still a blanket of snow here in Omagh 2c but bet it be gone by tomorrow especially with temperatures rising to 5c by morning

Managed to get up to the Comeraghs. Was starting to thaw and by the time I got back to the car park it was slushy.

Facing south

Facing North to Mahon Falls

Winter wonderland in the Dublin Mountains today, never seen so much snow up there!!

40 years ago tomorrow. I was 8 at the time . One of my childhood weather events that got me interested in the weather.

I wasn't around till 97 but wow I know alot of people said winter 82 was bad, only relatable thing I can say was beast from the east 2018

I wonder if we will ever have that event again, I would hope so anyway

The 'big snow' of 1982 was 40 years ago on 8-9th January 🌨️

Almost widespread snowfall with strong easterly winds caused deep snowdrifts, mainly in the east & then a severe cold spell ☃️

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I remember digging out the footpath outside our house with my dad as my mam had gone in to labour at 4am as soon as we had dug a bit it was nearly immediately filled in again, amazing snow. Today is my sister's 40th birthday.

Called into the spar earlier and made a point of saying to the manager “ahem....so....that snow apocalypse you were shouting about the other evening.....”

Silence from him, he just kept bagging up items. Not good to see.

This Winter there seems to be 3 weeks of pretty mild weather and then a week of a few cold days. However mild is getting milder every year and cold is more moderated.

I'd imagine by 2040 cold spells will probably be 6 or 7c and only snow may be on the highest peaks.

I don't envisage ever seeing a prolonged cold spell again in my lifetime. Emma was just 3 days. Maybe we will get more Emma's but 1982 and 2010? I severely doubt it.