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Big Freeze Continues - Discussion here ( All Ireland ) - 3/12/2010 onwards

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    #1352
    Redsunset
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,693 ✭✭✭Redsunset


    Meteorological winter starts December 1st


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    #1353
    BigBrownBear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 284 ✭✭BigBrownBear


    cravings wrote: »
    just spent a few hours freeing up the vehicles and clearing the path in front of my house.. it definitely felt like it was thawing out as i was doing it... but just as i was finishing up, that fog came wandering down the road and felt like it would freeze everything up again... hope it doesn't really.

    (south dublin)
    Same here although the amount of muppets digging out their driveways and dumping the snow in a big mound on the footpath is unbelievable:mad:
    Dump it on the grass verges people


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    #1354
    cravings
    Registered Users Posts: 141 ✭✭cravings


    nah, all sensible and on the verges here. it's a good idea to clear the line of the kerb too.. for visibility, and to create drainage channels to the.. drains..

    good spirit though. i've had way more friendly chats with neighbours and randoms in the last week than i've had in years.


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    #1355
    mvron
    Registered Users Posts: 339 ✭✭mvron


    Lots of neighbours out clearing the footpaths :). The fog is really coming down here too.


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    #1356
    anniehoo
    Registered Users Posts: 6,596 ✭✭✭anniehoo


    kyub wrote: »
    Fogzilla in Dublin 15!
    Whats driving visibility like? Meant to be driving from Blanch to Lusk later...very foggy in my area now!


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    #1357
    Cicero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,144 ✭✭✭✭Cicero


    Freezing fog in Kildare since early afternoon....


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    #1358
    ffarrell7
    Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭ffarrell7


    A.Partridge wrote: »
    Winter officially began on 1 November.

    Spring begins 1 February, Summer on 1 May & Autumn on 1 August.

    Winter begins OFFICIALLY on December 1 and always has mate. Ring MET Eireann and they will put you straight!! How many times do they have to metnion it?? Gerald Fleming is constantly reminding people of this. On the continent it begins on 21 December (solstice) so I suggest you do some more homework and stop making a fool of yourself. We should also have the official start of Winter as 21 December like our eurozone neighbours and change the clock as well to be in line with them and not Britain. After all we are pro-European, ur former colonial masters are not.


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    #1359
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Paths are very dangerous in places but not as bad *yet* as during the last winter freeze. Good to see the law clarified about neighbours & businesses clearing the paths outside their premises, a huge improvement on last January when hardly any cleared the paths.

    Bravo to Dublin Bus for clearing a huge swathe of ice on the paths outside their garage on Ringsend Rd, Dublin.


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    #1360
    plein de force
    Registered Users Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭plein de force


    ffarrell7 wrote: »
    Winter begins OFFICIALLY on December 1 and always has mate. Ring MET Eireann and they will put you straight!! How many times do they have to metnion it?? Gerald Fleming is constantly reminding people of this. On the continent it begins on 21 December (solstice) so I suggest you do some more homework and stop making a fool of yourself. We should also have the official start of Winter as 21 December like our eurozone neighbours and change the clock as well to be in line with them and not Britain. After all we are pro-European, ur former colonial masters are not.

    fair enough on the winter thing

    but the clock's aren't just in line with britain. Britain, Ireland, Portugal and the canary islands share the same timezone, plus it'd be kind of silly to have one time in newry and another in dundalk


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    #1361
    Mc Love
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Getting very foggy in Limerick now


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    #1362
    Dotsie~tmp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,427 ✭✭✭Dotsie~tmp


    The extent of the snow.

    europe2012010338aqua500.jpg


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    #1363
    ellieh1
    Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭ellieh1


    Mc Love wrote: »
    Getting very foggy in Limerick now

    It has come down very fast and visibility is deteriorating rapidly!


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    #1364
    isle of man
    Registered Users Posts: 347 ✭✭isle of man


    we have ice ice and emm more ice.

    should be fun driving later


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    #1365
    mickger844posts
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,466 Mod ✭✭✭✭mickger844posts


    Major thaw here in Waterford City today, the sound of drip drip was to be heard everywhere. Temp max was 3.7c and it did feel raw out there. Looking at temps around the country still some very low temps in the midlands and east where the most snow fell. Temp now is 2.2c Dp 1.1c Wind NNW @ 11km/h

    More Detail and Data @ www.waterfordcityweather.com


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    #1366
    hellboy99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    -0.9c / -2.3dp


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    #1367
    wicklowdub
    Registered Users Posts: 847 ✭✭✭wicklowdub


    Have to drive back from Red Cow back to Greystones about 9.00pm, not looking forward to it.


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    #1368
    jimmynokia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    look what i found this morning the first one ive seen since the snow started


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    #1369
    vibe666
    Registered Users Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    all the snowy roads around navan are rapidly turning into icy roads and even the 4WD and all-terrain tyres are pretty much useless when its like that, i might as well be driving on oiled glass. :(

    keep safe people and watch where you're going. its not a great feeling turning your steering wheel and it not making any difference to the direction you'e going. :eek:


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    #1370
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users Posts: 6,060 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    Satellite snow pic: Is that ice on Lough Rea near Athlone? Its looks different to the other loughs. I think Lough Rea is very shallow which is why it would freeze easily.


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    #1371
    Dotsie~tmp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,427 ✭✭✭Dotsie~tmp


    Fog.


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    #1372
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    Just Back from a nice walk in the Phoenix Park, Place is amazing looking covered in all the snow, and only even nicer with the addition of the Fog... The dog was in heaven! ha

    Temp hovering around 0 so the roads which wer cleared wer gettin a bit icy, and the untreated ones wer like a skating rink .... Great fun!

    Looking forward to "trying" to cycle to work at 6 in the morning! ha


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    #1373
    duckysauce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭duckysauce


    jimmynokia wrote: »
    look what i found this morning the first one ive seen since the snow started

    they are not meant to be out in dangerous driving conditions:confused:


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    #1374
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    duckysauce wrote: »
    they are not meant to be out in dangerous driving conditions:confused:

    Agreed, but anyone breaking the limit on that stretch of road deserves the fine.

    On topic: a lot of showers pushing into the Donegal/Derry region....anyone know if this is falling as snow? They seem to be petering out as they move inland but some heavier clumps of cloud out to sea on the sat pics...


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    #1375
    therunaround
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭therunaround


    make sure ye knock da snow off the top of the car before setting out.

    woman in car in front of me braked and the snow piled on top of the car loaded down onto her windscreen, completely blocking her view, lucky escape.


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    #1376
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    therunaround wrote: »
    make sure ye knock da snow off the top of the car before setting out.

    woman in car in front of me braked and the snow piled on top of the car loaded down onto her windscreen, completely blocking her view, lucky escape.

    I was behind a vegetable truck with a cover over it's load earlier on a secondary road....the truck hit a bump in the road and the snow still lying on the soft top blew right back into my windscreen like a mini blizzard.

    Good advice...same happened me with rear window on friday and since I have no rear wiper it made a for a fun few minutes until I got puyled in soemwhere to clear it...


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    #1377
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Have to say I loved this cold spell. Saw some of the best snowfalls I've ever seen. I'd have to rank this as better than last winter already even though it's only the very start of the season.

    What would be perfect now would be a few milder days. No raging Atlantic with lashing rain. Just a bit milder, and dry. Then around mid-month we get a reload of cold leading up to a very cold and snowy Christmas that holds steady into the start of the new year.


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    #1378
    homolumo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭homolumo


    mickger844posts wrote: »
    Major thaw here in Waterford City today, the sound of drip drip was to be heard everywhere.
    More Detail and Data @ www.waterfordcityweather.com

    Tell me about it, barely avoided the snow sliding off the roof. It came down with a lot of momentum.


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    #1379
    4Sheets
    Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭4Sheets


    Went for a drive this eve..all the snow is frozen soild like driven on a pot-holded road..and then slipping all the over the placeas well..very dangerous on the side roads in clondalkin!


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    #1380
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Freezing hard here tonight. Gonna be extremely icy on the roads.


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    #1381
    Harps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    Same here, the footpaths are like an ice rink and on any kind of slope its simply not possible to walk on

    The roads are mostly clear of the compacted sheets of snow but still full of ice

    Hopefully it gets warmer now for a few days cause I can barely leave the house at this stage


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