Current Weather Conditions - December 2010

pauldry wrote: »

Hey how do you add a link to your post like "here" and "NRA Website". I keep having to put in the full Address like www.nra.ie

First of all copy the url you wish to link to and then highlight the word "here" for example (in your post/reply) and click on the little "insert link" tab at the top centre and then paste the url into that. There's a test page here if you want to practice or just muck about.

Hi SW Sigo here. Near Longford House about 3 or so miles from the Atlantic. No snow falling here, but about 3 inches on the ground. No thaw today. The temperature is now. minus 8 celsius here. In January the lowest temp that I saw on our min max thermometer overnight was minus 6.

AN OLD MAN'S WINTER NIGHT

All out of doors looked darkly in at him
Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars,
That gathers on the pane in empty rooms.
What kept his eyes from giving back the gaze
Was the lamp tilted near them in his hand.
What kept him from remembering what it was
That brought him to that creaking room was age.
He stood with barrels round him -- at a loss.
And having scared the cellar under him
In clomping there, he scared it once again
In clomping off; -- and scared the outer night,
Which has its sounds, familiar, like the roar
Of trees and crack of branches, common things,
But nothing so like beating on a box.
A light he was to no one but himself
Where now he sat, concerned with he knew what,
A quiet light, and then not even that.
He consigned to the moon, such as she was,
So late-arising, to the broken moon
As better than the sun in any case
For such a charge, his snow upon the roof,
His icicles along the wall to keep;
And slept. The log that shifted with a jolt
Once in the stove, disturbed him and he shifted,
And eased his heavy breathing, but still slept.
One aged man -- one man -- can't keep a house,
A farm, a countryside, or if he can,
It's thus he does it of a winter night.

Robert Frost.

im nearly at my lowest record that was recorded last year of -11.7c here in mayo. Luckily another 2 or so hours to go till the lowest temp is recorded (before sunrise).

-11.1c here

-13.5 in Athlone brrrrr

-3 in templogue at the moment and it feels cold. The snow on my car just brushed off, it wasn't frozen to the window like it normally would be. Strange.

min -10.0c, current -7.3c, dense fog...-18.0c for Castlederg and record for Sligo but no value given on the news...it's a cold one...

-9.5 in Blessington:(

-2 to -3 on the car in Clonmel. Nothing more than an average cold Winter morning. Looks like the snow is going to skip us completely.:mad:

Just heard on Evelyn cusack on Ocean fm saying record broken last night in sligo -16 for coldest temperture in Decemeber, then she went on to mention the Norths record broken too.
They are treating them seperatly just as I thought :rolleyes: