The Big Freeze ( Saturday 9th January 2010 )

going by the latest radar i might just get a flake or 2 here in the west from the irish sea showers

snowing again!! on and off

anoble66 wrote: »

latest BBC UK forecast vid.....blizzards tomorrow so

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/10209

I'm loving that forecast:D

There's something really bizarre going on here with the winds in my part of Terenure. At last had 5 minutes of heavy snow. But I have spent 5 minutes watching snow blasting in two completely different directions. 100 yards to the north the clouds of snow were going in an east to west direction, but the snow dumping into the garden was going in a south to north direction, so I've been watching snow in the foreground coming down at exactly right angles to snow coming down 100 yards away. And it all started with the East to West snow blasting completely horizontally over the area at street lamp height and nothing actually falling below that except a few flakes, and I suspect thats is what has been happening the whole evening, the snow has been blowing horizontally over the area at height without falling, and some sort of temporary wind change knocked it down for a short while. It only started dumping into the garden from the south when the east to west flow to the north started travelling downwards at a 45 degree angle. Then when the East to West stuff went back to travelling horizontally, the snow from the south stopped dumping into the garden and went back to the few scattered snow flakes. And actually, earlier in the evening I noticed to the south the clouds were travelling from the south to the north, and to the north the clouds were travelling from the East to the West, which matches the way the snow fell. And there's no big hill or mountains around here in the immediate area. I think whats hppening here is that there is a strong Easterly wind being deflected at an altitude over south Dublin by the Dublin/Wicklow mountains so that the weather is literally being blown straight over Terenure, and I may well be right on the edge of that effect. As well as very little snow here, it has also been calm here all evening, so I was very surpised to see the speed at which the snow which was travelling East to West to the South was travelling at, it looked like it was blowing a storm, but it was actually calm where I am.