Winter 2025/26 - General Discussion

Dense fog and temperatures just gone under 0c,and it will be raining by morning time.

A year on. I will never forget the sound of the tiles been lifted up and down around 4am

No major low temps, sleet or snow, but I thought this January one of the darkest, dampest & most miserable months I can recall. Will be glad to see the back of it.

I remember reading an article many years ago that stated snow would become rare in Ireland by 2020, and rarer still by 2050. I was highly skeptical at the time of reading , but not now.

A raw enough feel today with the breeze. I see there is a warning for exploding trees in the states due to the cold outbreak.

Yeah it would be class to be there this weekend. I sill prefer seeing a good snowfall at home, but if it continues like this I might go somewhere that you're guaranteed to see a significant fall of snow .

I think it's a process that's been going on for decades. I have to say I don't remember very much snow as a child and I am about a decade older than you. Certainly I recall January 1982 as a bolt out of the blue, followed by a couple of briefer events in later in the 1980's. My father used to talk about significant snow events in the 1930's & 40's but they could be counted on one hand, plus of course the great freeze-up of 1963.

As an adult the first significant ice/snow event for me were the two in 2010 (Jan & Dec), followed by Storm Emma in 2018. I moved back to the Midlands from Dublin around 2004 and in the intervening years we had little or no severe winter weather.

It would be interesting to see the stats if syran has them. I'm certain there is less snowfall nowadays. The UK met did a trend graph or something a couple of yrs ago and it showed a trend of less snowfall for the UK over the last few decades. The first half of the 70s apparently there was a lack of snow but from about 77 - 87 we had a number of cold spells. The likes of Feb 78,Jan 79,Jan 82,Jan 84,Jan 85,Feb 86,Jan 87. The 60s was a notoriously cool decade with plenty of cold spells etc The downward trend started in the late 80s though winter 90/ 91 was decent.

Plenty of time in February for snow

The last few days have been awful here in Dublin, I don't recall having to use an umbrella so much in the last week from the frequency of the rain. I wouldn't mind this weather if it wasn't for my commute to college and work, the local parks have been absolutely drowned with deep puddles, Wednesday particularly was awful I was absolutely soaked by the time I got to class…

Interested to see how Tuesday's going to go, a lot of rain expected.

Also RE: the US cold spell, my friend in North Carolina is expecting 40CM of snow on Sunday which is exceedingly rare for his area, had to pull out the BFTE photos in 2018 to give him a reference for what 30-40cm looks like hahahah