The Big Freeze ( Sunday 10th January )

BotanyQueen · 10-01-2010 07:15PM

Guys, how long 'till this snow hits Dublin tonight?

Mmcd · 10-01-2010 07:16PM

Snowaddict wrote: »

Great pictures, I measured in two locations up on the very top hills, lying level snow of 8 inches, drifting is severe up at the top, through the fields. It's fantastic!

SA

As long as tomorrow gets that bit colder which it seems its meant to Id hope that we'd be topping a foot in places. Was no thaw here but everyones elses horror stories are scaring me

Will be sure to post pics if we do get near it!

manonmir · 10-01-2010 07:16PM

Raining here again now. It's amazing how much snow was outside at 2am last night with the prospect of another dumping today it was potentially amazing. Now the very last of the slush is being washed away by rain. I kind of miss the brutal cold too in short burts, its only 3-4c outside but it feels tropical in context!

Heyes · 10-01-2010 07:17PM

BotanyQueen wrote: »

Guys, how long 'till this snow hits Dublin tonight?

By the sounds of things i dont think we'll be getting any.

thetonynator · 10-01-2010 07:17PM

Snowaddict wrote: »

Great pictures, I measured in two locations up on the very top hills, lying level snow of 8 inches, drifting is severe up at the top, through the fields. It's fantastic!

SA

Had a lot of that snow in thomastown too, but it was lighter, wetter and only started sticking in the last hour.

WIZE · 10-01-2010 07:17PM

BotanyQueen wrote: »

Guys, how long 'till this snow hits Dublin tonight?

Another 365 days

fricatus · 10-01-2010 07:17PM

Snow still falling in Waterford but it seems to be thawing out quicker than the falling snow can keep up with.

Anyway, I went into the city centre today (I thought I was mad heading in), but there were loads of people in town and I got some rare pics of a snowy city centre.

BotanyQueen · 10-01-2010 07:17PM

Heyes wrote: »

By the sounds of things i dont think we'll be getting any.

Aw

snaps · 10-01-2010 07:18PM

looking at irelandsweather.com, who would have thought munster would be the coldest!

Wheres owenc? Has he melted as Coleraine is the warmest part of Ireland?

Min · 10-01-2010 07:18PM

lyn27 wrote: »

im in Ennicorthy all we got was rain so all snow has thawed n not a flake of snow in sight:(

So the radar is wrong for the south east corner too then.

No thaw here yet anyway.

Timistry · 10-01-2010 07:18PM

Dry now here. Very light snow for the past 6 hours gave a light dusting. less than 1cm anyways...

LookingFor · 10-01-2010 07:18PM

Looking at that chart from SnowAddict, I think I'm right on the line between snow and rain :pac: Couldn't be any more marginal, indeed.

munsterlegend · 10-01-2010 07:19PM

darkmaster2 wrote: »

Around 3 inches of snow here.

I made the mistake of going to the supermarket and got stranded half a mile from home on the way back.

Oh the Fun!

what part of mallow are you around roughly? up high? killarney road?

JanuarySnowstor · 10-01-2010 07:20PM

Still snowing heavy here in east cork
By the way I said last night it woul snow on the boats in cobh today, which did happen.
All the models for the last 2 days showed the ppn being heaviest in the south
Of course met eireann didn't say this.
And yes no mention of Cork in the rte news eventhough all buses are cancelled, roads treacherous and water supplies at very low levels
2nd largest city yet not a mention.

I say more heavy snow for Cork throughout the night, no travel should be attempted. Tomorrow morning will be treacherous for us, stay at home.
A fast thaw tomorrow evening followed by flooding on Tuesday night will be the next news story.
In the meantime enjoy ths snow cork you deserve it (and waterford of course)

Tactical · 10-01-2010 07:20PM

Well I never thought I'd see almost 3 inches of snow on the road here in West Limerick and still snowing :eek::D

Cleared the drive of snow earlier when it had lightened off a bit but what a waste of time

:cool:

Not even going to attempt to read the hundreds of past posts since I posted earlier but will monitor new ones for another while.

Snow is a bit too soft to make a decent snowman from or make decent snowballs but good fun had anyways.

Road is getting compacted from the light traffic but something is telling me that it won't freeze too bad tonight so things mightn't actually be too bad in the morning.

dolliemix · 10-01-2010 07:20PM

445279.ie wrote: »

Paul Cunningham seems to have been confined to the studio since the hat incident the other night

What happened?

Now that I think about it Eileen Dunne mentioned something about a hat yesterday or the day before when introducing him. Thought she was just referring to weather in general

jbsenna · 10-01-2010 07:20PM

Heres hoping!

downwiththatsor · 10-01-2010 07:20PM

Timistry wrote: »

Dry now here. Very light snow for the past 6 hours gave a light dusting. less than 1cm anyways...

Still snowing here in Farranfore and has been since 12.30pm today, got heavier around 4pm and still coming down heavy, id say 2cm by now as very light earlier. Very powdery stuff but not complaining:D

snow ghost · 10-01-2010 07:21PM

445279.ie wrote: »

Paul Cunningham seems to have been confined to the studio since the hat incident the other night

He's busy answering requests for him to star in Alice in Winter Wonderland as the Mad Hatter.

GigaByte · 10-01-2010 07:21PM

BotanyQueen wrote: »

Guys, how long 'till this snow hits Dublin tonight?

My contact in Met Eirean has confidently predicted we will have a lot more snow on the 20 of January, they've been spot on so far!!

hudsonriver · 10-01-2010 07:21PM

Did the Shannon station go down for 15 minutes?

Pokes · 10-01-2010 07:22PM

Shannon radar back up on met.ie now

questionmark? · 10-01-2010 07:22PM

Still hasnt stopped snowing here in clonmel since 12.30 today. really bucketing down for the last hour. Looking like its time for a few snow angles and a hot whiskey

dublincelt · 10-01-2010 07:22PM

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

Still snowing heavy here in east cork
By the way I said last night it woul snow on the boats in cobh today, which did happen.
All the models for the last 2 days showed the ppn being heaviest in the south
Of course met eireann didn't say this.
And yes no mention of Cork in the rte news eventhough all buses are cancelled, roads treacherous and water supplies at very low levels
2nd largest city yet not a mention.

I say more heavy snow for Cork throughout the night, no travel should be attempted. Tomorrow morning will be treacherous for us, stay at home.
A fast thaw tomorrow evening followed by flooding on Tuesday night will be the next news story.
In the meantime enjoy ths snow cork you deserve it (and waterford of course)

Third largest city in fairness. Belfast is bigger than Cork boy..

SpitfireIV · 10-01-2010 07:22PM

What an unbelievably, utterly dissapointing and totally sickening let down of a day!!!

Batt O'Keefe and his friggin' 'snow storm'......where the feck was the persistant snow showers as forecast and the 5-10cm?! The only persistant thing I seen today was the drips of a thaw!

:(

dloob · 10-01-2010 07:22PM

Could the blue over Dublin be high altitude snow that evaporates before it reaches the ground?

The_Conductor · 10-01-2010 07:22PM

-1 in Lucan, and raining.
I've just spread the last 40kg of salt- hope I get more tomorrow.

snow ghost · 10-01-2010 07:23PM

snaps wrote: »

looking at irelandsweather.com, who would have thought munster would be the coldest!

Wheres owenc? Has he melted as Coleraine is the warmest part of Ireland?

Alas poor owen... all they found was a carrot and two pieces of coal.

opr · 10-01-2010 07:24PM

The rest of the country looked on as the east got the majority of snow showers but looks like the last laugh will be theirs

ffs, just once it would be nice if one of these big events stayed the right side of marginality for me!

Opr

force eleven · 10-01-2010 07:24PM

GigaByte wrote: »

My contact in Met Eirean has confidently predicted we will have a lot more snow on the 20 of January, they've been spot on so far!!

Jean would never give out tips like that free of charge!

:D

The Big Freeze ( Sunday 10th January )

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