It's snowing!! (weathercheck is happy ;p )

Mothman · 18-01-2005 9:04am

Temperature has risen and there is a slow thaw on here. OItherwise it's a black and white scene looking at the surrounding hills.

Occidental · 18-01-2005 9:12am

Whole of Westmeath covered. Heavier in the north of the county, but still a good covering in Athlone.

solas · 18-01-2005 9:23am

daughter thought it would be fun to have a snowball fight at 7.30am this morning, hallway and me now soaked.

twas fun though....
made cool little snowman too.

Gonzo · 18-01-2005 9:26am

theres a tiny bit of snow here in loughlinstown, no snow between where I live and Dun Laoghaire... just very bad frost/ice...

Chong · 18-01-2005 9:30am

We had a brief flurry last night around 8 but nothing since, can we expect more or is over?

mobile04 · 18-01-2005 9:45am

aaahh sure the kids will think its great.....
although the worst of it is the slushy bit at the end of the snow.. dirty auld slush i hate it.

anyone remember the bigsnow of the early eighties?
i wonder will we ever see any thing like that again.......

Chong · 18-01-2005 9:52am

Well for all I know aboot weather its supposed to get mild again tommorrow.

Gonzo · 18-01-2005 9:58am

its raining here in south dublin

mobile04 · 18-01-2005 10:00am

really loved it when the bookies had to pay out for the xmas day snow
im sure they were as sick as a parrot.
but were well over due a good summer im sure we all agree.

18-01-2005 10:09am

Light dusting on the ground here, there were actually a few flurries when I was coming in, but mainly it's just COLD

The nearby hills are very white,down to ballyfad and across to Ballycoog and aughrim-looks like a fair covering in that direction between 3 and 6 miles from here, perhaps more than 2 inches, maybe 7 or 8 cms above 800ft or so but the cover comes down to below 600ft by the looks of things.
Theres enough here to gather a snowball from the top of the car and thats about it.

Mothman · 18-01-2005 10:10am

Temp heading towards 4C. Rapid thaw on now.

Edit: now raining...

Villain · 18-01-2005 10:19am

Mordeth wrote:

god damn NOTHING in carlow

There was this morning, about an inch in places, local roads very dangerous!!!

18-01-2005 10:20am

sitting at just under 2c here but thats a rise from 0 about an hour and a half ago.
It will probably get to 6 or 7 by afternoon

Mothman · 18-01-2005 10:24am

Earthman wrote:

perhaps more than 2 inches, maybe 7 or 8 cms above 800ft or so but the cover comes down to below 600ft by the looks of things.

Gets confusing when you switch codes in middle of sentence, Speed limit signs, wind speed....

My brain can't take anymore...

With the rain, all lying snow is almost gone apart from a pile of wood shavings. They must be colder.

18-01-2005 10:34am

very heavy snow shower here now just west of Arklow.
Yes snow

A Dub in Glasgo · 18-01-2005 10:39am

Blizzard like conditions here for the last hour

Mossy Monk · 18-01-2005 10:51am

last night it was snowing heavily in waterford at about 4am
this morning we had another shower at around 7.30
cycling to work was a nightmare

CerebralCortex · 18-01-2005 1:13pm

How come snow never lasts more than a week in Ireland? In fact I don't think it ever has.

Mothman · 18-01-2005 1:28pm

With temp now above 7C, no snow to be seen even on the hills. Got windy though.

18-01-2005 2:15pm

Mothman wrote:

With temp now above 7C, no snow to be seen even on the hills. Got windy though.

Yeah it's thawing fast.
Croghan and the area around it down to 800ft or so is still very white.
I noticed the southern section of that area got more snow than the northern end due to where the showers were.

Gonzo · 18-01-2005 2:52pm

CerebralCortex wrote:

How come snow never lasts more than a week in Ireland? In fact I don't think it ever has.

lol never mind a week, we're lucky if it even snows once per winter and it lasts a day! our snowy winters of the 80s and early 90s seem lost forever, some parts of Ireland stand as much chance of seeing snow as the costa del sol..

ninebeanrows · 18-01-2005 5:33pm

You might have to eat your words in the next few
weeks Gonzo were heading into a period where
a classic Easterly Blast scenario, just might
show its face its a classic battle between
East and west lets hope that the East wins

No thats where you just wonder whats gonna happen next
a large Siberian High ready to ridge and the atlantic lows
filling...

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn1501.gif

It will happen one of these days and its 50/50 for later in Jan

18-01-2005 5:37pm

Closure to this episode

It's snowing!! (weathercheck is happy ;p )

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