Snow / Ice Reports December 18th onwards.

irish1967 · 06-01-2010 9:40am

Snowing for the second time here this morning.... brrr... anyone know what the road is like from here to Killybegs

Deer Hunter DL · 06-01-2010 9:45am

ednwireland wrote: »

lorry in the ditch on the sharp bend before the dummy's bridge (should be moved by now various tractors pulling it out)
donegalman1 - whats the green party got to do with it ?
its your local councillors that set the budgets and "manage" all of this its those people you need to complain to - but lets be fair we dont have the equipment for 3 weeks of weather like this (i know i dont, if it happened every year i'd have winter tyres in the shed and snow chains in the car, if i bought snow tyres now theyd be perished by the next time this happens)

you can keep tyres for a long time just keep them cool, dry and especially in the dark, UV destroys rubber,some tyres you buy new be laying in tyre centers for years , if you look on the side of tyres you will see the date they were made it goes be the week/year so it will be a number like 4908

inode · 06-01-2010 6:44pm

the gritters werent putting anything on the roads last night but they were driving around. coming out fox hills up the mountain top today my car slammed into the curb and totally bent in the rim on my wheel. thank god for spare wheels!:rolleyes:

Daniel O Donnel · 06-01-2010 11:33pm

Looks like another layer of snow is on the way:eek:

inode · 06-01-2010 11:46pm

just home there from work, could hardly see the roads the snow was coming down that heavy in letterkenny.

danjo · 06-01-2010 11:48pm

Is it just me or does anybody now believe in "Global Warming" ?
Global freezing would be more like it.

inode · 07-01-2010 12:00am

danjo wrote: »

Is it just me or does anybody now believe in "Global Warming" ?
Global freezing would be more like it.

all i can think about is that south park episode "The day after tomorrow"

irish1967 · 07-01-2010 12:32am

Temp here now. -0.4. Spare a thought for county Carlow. Just hit -14.6 and still dropping. !!!

donegal lass 4 · 07-01-2010 8:10am

Hi,
Anyone know what the roads are like between sligo and killybegs, I'm due to go home today, will be travelling at 1pm or so.
In particular around grange (sligo), ballyshannon and mountcharles and in around donegal town.

thank you if anyone can reports back!

iceman_kill · 07-01-2010 8:42am

Donegal Town to Killybegs was ok at 6.30am this morning..I met the gritter heading into bruckless so it should be fine now

Deer Hunter DL · 07-01-2010 8:44am

main roads are passable with care , more snowfall last night fresh coasting in donegal town this morning

irish1967 · 07-01-2010 9:34am

Yeah... new snow.. different look about the place this morning. This is the first morning I haven't been able to see the sun come up. Foggy / misty grey cold morning. Forecast is for 'possibly' more snow around noon today.

Cul a cnoic · 07-01-2010 9:38am

Same here, snowing the last 10 minutes and the sky looks full of it.

emmemm · 07-01-2010 10:00am

Cul a cnoic wrote: »

Same here, snowing the last 10 minutes and the sky looks full of it.

which hill is that, quite plentiful here you know.

Cul a cnoic · 07-01-2010 10:08am

emmemm wrote: »

which hill is that, quite plentiful here you know.

Annagry/Gweedore

Deer Hunter DL · 12-01-2010 11:30am

be carefull on back roads their very bad today just sheet ice on most of them

ednwireland · 12-01-2010 12:13pm

Deer Hunter DL wrote: »

be carefull on back roads their very bad today just sheet ice on most of them

yep watch yourselves
fun this morning trying to guess what was slush/ slush with ice under, tarmac or ice with dirt on it

byte · 12-01-2010 11:13pm

Ah our estate is hazardous atm. I didn't attempt to take workvan down the mild hill to my house this evening, as there wouldn't be a hope in hell of it getting back out in the morning! It's safe to say that rear wheel drive Transit's are useless in these conditions!

muffler · 12-01-2010 11:48pm

Went up to a guys house near Knock crossroads, Ballybofey and the car started moving a lot on the road. There were 2 narrow strips (ruts) on my side of the road as I was driving up and these were just the right width for car wheels but there was still frozen ice/slush in the middle of the tracks and to the side also. Very difficult to see them in the dark now as they have turned colour.

I was meeting another car and obviously held a little more to the left hand side but this then put all 4 wheels on the ice and she was slipping and sliding out and in of the ruts.

I got as far as yer man's gates and turned in to go up the driveway. Got about 5 metres only and I could go no further. reversed out and went home again.

Watch out people for the back roads particularly those that are on high(ish) ground.

donegalgirl28 · 13-01-2010 12:31am

Gonna be driving up to Letterkenny/Milford on Saturday, reckon it's still gonna be bad?

muffler · 13-01-2010 12:42am

Apart from a bit of overnight snow (possibly) tonight there is a thaw here yesterday and today and it will continue slowly but will pick up a bit more momentum as the temperatures rise towards the weekend. Id imagine you will be fine.

Just a thought - tune into highland radio online and listen out for the weather details on the hourly news headlines.

irish1967 · 13-01-2010 7:16am

Or ocean fm for south o' the gap

irish1967 · 16-01-2010 12:32pm

Slightly off topic but iron bridge in Donegal Town closed this morning due to burst pipe.

mamakevf · 16-01-2010 8:33pm

Freezing in Letterkenny tonight again.:(

Deer Hunter DL · 30-01-2010 9:51pm

its back ! snowing out side donegal town

irish1967 · 31-01-2010 12:01am

Yeah streets are white. Only in center and north of town.

Domscard · 31-01-2010 1:05am

Nooooooooooooooooo!

Enough already! Snow in Lifford again - though last night's melted fairly easily earlier today. I hope tonight's will vanish as quickly. We've only just got back to normal and the roads are full of craters. Damned white stuff :eek:

ednwireland · 01-02-2010 8:07am

sheet ice all over the drimarone road this morning - rained at about 6:30am tok 20 mins to get enough of the windscreen clear to drive

Graces7 · 02-02-2010 8:49am

Yesterday was pretty; my new policy is that if the road up here is white, I stay home.

Getting too old for these adventures.

So I enjoyed the snow...

It was thick with ice and compacted snow.. and now all has gone in the night of rain.

muffler · 02-02-2010 1:56pm

Dont despair as there's a bit o' the white stuff forecast for tomorrow morning.

UpDonegal · 02-02-2010 2:31pm

Yes Met Eireann have issued a weather warning!

Applicable to the following counties:
Donegal, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan, Monaghan, Roscommon & Longford.

A spell of sleet and snow will occur late tonight and for a time on Wednesday with accumulations of 3 to 6 cm possible.

Most of the snow looks likely to fall during the morning & rush-hour before
clearer drier weather arriving in the southwest around midday will extend northeast to all areas during the evening!

muffler · 02-02-2010 2:48pm

The little forecast map at the bottom of the page here shows it nicely.

ednwireland · 03-02-2010 8:17am

snowing heavy now ! another fun drive in

Graces7 · 03-02-2010 9:52am

Take care out there please

Yes, once more all is white up here..... Getting used to it these days....

Wind rising so there may be drifting later if it continues to snow.

irlpic · 19-02-2010 8:14am

Another thick layer of snow this morning in Ballybofey. Looks like at least 5cm.

irish1967 · 19-02-2010 8:41am

Covering here too. Ice under snow on car. Take it easy out there.

Domscard · 19-02-2010 9:51am

Noooooooooooo!

Deja vu here in Lifford - or groundhog day. Will this winter never end? Seems forecast for Sunday is worse :eek:

Harps · 19-02-2010 1:45pm

Same here in Lettekennyy, snowing heavily as Im typing this as well

North_West_Art · 19-02-2010 1:57pm

was heavy this morning in B'bofey, but little or nothing in Donegal Town, and Sligo was sunny and clear. Snow clearing up now

homer simpson · 19-02-2010 2:05pm

Wan't too bad (between newtown and manor) here a light dusting over the ice, but it just started snowing very very heavy, probably as heavy as ive seen it falls all witer and thats saying something:eek:

Harps · 19-02-2010 3:28pm

Yeah been snowing constantly very heavily since my post above nearly 2 hours ago..not really sticking where its already melted but its getting quite thick now where its falling on the stuff left over from last night. If its this prolonged tonight its fairly going to be bad tomorrow morning!

muffler · 19-02-2010 3:56pm

Snowing fairly heavy at the moment in the twin towns buts its lying only on the stuff that was there this morning and on the higher ground.

Starting to brighten a little now.

homer simpson · 19-02-2010 4:17pm

slowed a wee bit now but this is a picture from half an hour ago

inode · 19-02-2010 9:17pm

parts of lk are at a standstill now still, had a guy in the shop there earlier saying it took him two hours to get from kilmac to the dry arch. supposed to be alot of small crashes up the mountain top direction too. i am not looking forward to the drive home!

mrmac · 19-02-2010 9:33pm

Drove from Derry to L'kenny tonight at 8pm, and it was clear roads until Murray Motors. Coming in the dual carraigeway was very slushy, with everyone going at less than 40mph.
The gritters are out, but housing estates are not being done, so be cute in the morning.

Ronan Keating · 19-02-2010 10:19pm

Takes over an hour to get from Ballybofey to LK.

buckfasterer · 19-02-2010 10:35pm

anyone know if anything serious happened up at the mountain top this eve? the traffic was just unreal....a disgrace that they were allowed to get that bad.

theblueirish · 19-02-2010 11:40pm

I left Bonagee at 7pm heading to Kilmacrennan, arrived there at 9pm.
The road up from Dunnes of Ilistrin (sp) to the mountain top was pure ice, alot of cars and a few lorries got stuck.
I was really glad to see the numbers of people, men and women out pushing cars, gritting the roads even putting blankets down in front of car so they could get some grip.
A tractor was pulling the lorries, vans and an ambulance up the hill and most of the cars were able to drive up with a bit of a push.
I came back towards Letterkenny again at 10 and everything was cleared, still a few cars on the roadside that people had abandoned but road had been gritted and was easliy passable.
If any of the guy or gals that helped out are reading this a big thank you for all you efforts, good to see that there is still decency around.

Theblueirish

eman66 · 20-02-2010 5:40pm

theblueirish wrote: »

I left Bonagee at 7pm heading to Kilmacrennan, arrived there at 9pm.
The road up from Dunnes of Ilistrin (sp) to the mountain top was pure ice, alot of cars and a few lorries got stuck.
I was really glad to see the numbers of people, men and women out pushing cars, gritting the roads even putting blankets down in front of car so they could get some grip.
A tractor was pulling the lorries, vans and an ambulance up the hill and most of the cars were able to drive up with a bit of a push.
I came back towards Letterkenny again at 10 and everything was cleared, still a few cars on the roadside that people had abandoned but road had been gritted and was easliy passable.
If any of the guy or gals that helped out are reading this a big thank you for all you efforts, good to see that there is still decency around.

Theblueirish

Took me over an hour to get from Kilmacrennan to Lettekenny, normally a 10 minute run. Going down from the Mountain top to Letterkenny tried to change down from second to first gear and that was enough to put the car into a slide.

Unbelievably, some cars were overtaking between the centre islands. The last one to overtake me couldn't get stopped and ended up on the footpath.

Ronan Keating · 20-02-2010 7:08pm

The weather is better today. RTÉ must not have been updated:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0220/weather.html

Snow / Ice Reports December 18th onwards.

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