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Question re North America arctic blast creeping east

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  • Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭Sunshine87


    hegarty147 wrote: »
    I am living in toronto and yesterday it was minus 43 with wind chill ....you do not want that in Ireland at all. Its amazing though how the city still runs fairly well even in this weather

    Agreed. I commute north of Toronto from downtown and subways/buses all going on time, nothing was down. My mates even went ice skating in that :-)


  • Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭Sunshine87


    wexie wrote: »
    not that much of a jump from -15/20 to -43 in the amount of preparation needed though is there?

    Compared to Ireland getting a prolonged spell of -20

    Huge difference when theres wind chill. You would notice if you had to walk in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,385 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    already a thread here about it

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057118931

    Threads Merged


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Sunshine87 wrote: »
    Huge difference when theres wind chill. You would notice if you had to walk in it.

    Oh I know that,sorry what I meant was that a country that is used to dealing with -20 as a regular occurrence will likely be okay with -43 for a bit. As opposed to a country that's used to little frost dealing with -20.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,758 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    They have horrible weather in North America with the cold. We are lucky thank God we don't normally get anything too extreme.
    December 2010 was bad enough for people who worked outside, had to travel in it if they could, water problems, army having to be used to help people who were isolated.
    It was down to -18C then.
    It was fine for people whose job wasn't out in it for long periods and for those unaffected.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭Y2KBOS86


    Hope to god we don't get that cold again, that week and a half we had last time was hell.Car wouldn't start half time, pipes burst in house, oil was on 8 hours a day and house was still frozen.

    I was in the south of Poland for a week in december 2010 and it was much colder, think one day it was -25c.But it was grand, rental car started fine, roads were grand, B&B was toasty, didn't feel that cold when out and about it here.

    Cold went through my bones here, my dog loved it though.

    Stay away polar vortex!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭patneve2


    America has seen far worse cold spells than the current one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    Must check, but I wouldn't imagine this happens very often. Niagra Falls frozen over today.

    Frozen_Niagra.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    article-2534548-1A72469B00000578-507_964x640.jpg


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭Lucreto


    Duiske wrote: »
    Must check, but I wouldn't imagine this happens very often. Niagra Falls frozen over today.

    Frozen_Niagra.jpg

    That photo is from 2011. Still cool to look at.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    Lucreto wrote: »
    That photo is from 2011. Still cool to look at.

    Yea, seems the falls are frozen, but that pic is doing the rounds of twitter in error.
    Jeff Lewis @ChicagoPhotoSho

    While the American side of the falls is frozen solid, it appears that pic (from @reddit claiming today) is from 2011 http://frozenrigid.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/niagara-falls/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Big issue with Ireland and Britain in the cold is that it's usually damp too and the buildings are not designed for much less than short busts of about -5C.

    Anything prolonged or colder and we've problems.


  • Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭Ahhhhh its grand


    Saw this on facebook https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10203136384594199

    Have never seen anything like it, mad altogether :eek: Not sure where it is, somewhere in Canada I guess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,654 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    Significant cold usually comes to Ireland from the other direction, with the width of the Atlantic requiring 3-4 days if not longer for cold North American air masses to cross the ocean, only a modified cold can be expected from any that make it all the way without further modifications from storm development.

    That being said, the current pattern does promise colder weather, but it will arrive next week after remnants of this North American cold have come and gone. And that will arrive from the east due to high pressure dropping south from the polar regions into the far north Atlantic.

    I've done a lot of statistical studies of eastern North American and UK temperatures long-term and mild signals from the Great Lakes region often arrive in waves about 3, 6 and 10 days later in the UK, would assume the same findings would probably be obtained from Irish data over the same time scale (talking about 160 years of data).

    Cold patterns over the eastern regions of North America are not well correlated with either warm or cold patterns in Britain. The most likely temperature regime during colder than normal winter weather in Toronto (my data base) is near normal. This is probably because all that cold air pouring off the North American continent is bound to drive a fairly active storm track and there will be remnants of the cold air entrained, so you could expect the sort of weather that we're seeing this week, a mixture of mild and cold but essentially "zonal" or westerly.

    Not all mild signals from that region make it across the North Atlantic and there are frequently teleconnections of mild Pacific flow in North America and cold, blocked easterly flow in Europe. However, the coldest spells in UK weather records are often correlated with blocked cold patterns in eastern North America, the type that don't move east off the continent but remain steady state. This seems to be related to Greenland blocking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Saw this on facebook https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10203136384594199

    Have never seen anything like it, mad altogether :eek: Not sure where it is, somewhere in Canada I guess.

    I'd love to know what it is. It looks like a glacier on speed.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    goat2 wrote: »
    watching sky news there,
    they are saying that it is likely that this freezing vortex that has the united states going through hell, that it is likely that they in britain will get,
    if that is the case, we are on the path and are also going to get it

    Many multiples of factors need to happen first.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    I'd love to know what it is. It looks like a glacier on speed.

    that looks like ice being pushed up from a lake. What happens is ice forms on the lake and then breaks and is being pushed onto shore by wind and current.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15 Annalee Athletics Club


    wexie wrote: »
    that looks like ice being pushed up from a lake. What happens is ice forms on the lake and then breaks and is being pushed onto shore by wind and current.

    I think that video is from the Great Lakes a few years back, not sure what year but remember it (or something very similar to it) being posted.


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