Snowmageddon this winter?

We will have a 2010 winter this year. I garontee.

You can put your shirt on it.

We are facing the coldest winter in 50 years. And by coldest I mean mildest.

My surefire prediction for this winter:

It'll be fairly cold, but not too much so, except for a couple of weeks when it'll be colder and there'll be snow on the mountains, and maybe some in general in the north and east.

2010 was one of those events that only happens a couple of times in someone's life. Rivers froze ffs. Actual, proper rivers, not the piddly little streams that run through most people's towns.

The east of the country saw daytime temperatures staying below zero and overnight temps below -10 degrees. One night that cold is exceptional in an Irish winter, never mind a string of them in succession.

Anyone who thinks that another event like that will happen this side of 2030 is fooling themselves. More's the pity, I'd love if every winter was like that. I thought it was great.

Interesting though that apparently the previous winter was colder overall. Loads of events here: http://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/major-events.asp
The only pattern I can pick out from that is a tendency for heavy rainfall and flooding in November. The snow event in 2010 was probably a freak combination of that heavy late-autumn precipitation meeting arctic winds from the east.

In October 2005 the travellers on a halting Site asked their new Clan Leader if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild?

Since he was a "Leader" in a modern society he had never been taught the ancient and mystical ways of the travellers from times well past.
When he looked at the sky he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side he told his clan that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the site should collect firewood to be prepared.

But being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea. He went to the phone box, called the Irish Met Office and asked,
"Is da comin' wintur goin' to be cold?"

"It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold," the meteorologist at the weather service responded.

So the Leader went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared. A week later he called the Met Office
again.

"Does it still look like it's goin' to be a very cold wintur?"

"Yes," the man at Met Office again replied, "it's going to be a very cold winter."

The Leader again went back to his clan and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find. Two weeks later the Leader called the
Met Office again.

"Are ya absolutely sure that the wintur is goin' to be very cold?"

"Absolutely," the man replied. "It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters ever."

"How can ya tell?" the Leader asked.

The weatherman replied, "Coz the knackers are collecting firewood like crazy!!"

biko wrote: »

In October 2005 the travellers on a halting Site asked their new Clan Leader if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild?

Since he was a "Leader" in a modern society he had never been taught the ancient and mystical ways of the travellers from times well past.
When he looked at the sky he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side he told his clan that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the site should collect firewood to be prepared.

But being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea. He went to the phone box, called the Irish Met Office and asked,
"Is da comin' wintur goin' to be cold?"

"It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold," the meteorologist at the weather service responded.

So the Leader went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared. A week later he called the Met Office
again.

"Does it still look like it's goin' to be a very cold wintur?"

"Yes," the man at Met Office again replied, "it's going to be a very cold winter."

The Leader again went back to his clan and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find. Two weeks later the Leader called the
Met Office again.

"Are ya absolutely sure that the wintur is goin' to be very cold?"

"Absolutely," the man replied. "It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters ever."

"How can ya tell?" the Leader asked.

The weatherman replied, "Coz the knackers are collecting firewood like crazy!!"

Is that why they also collect copper hot water cyclinders ?

el nino + north atlantic blob / gulf stream x jet stream = cold winter
north atlantic blob + el nino / jet stream x gulf stream = mild winter

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

But according to RTE that never happened and the weather wasn't really a bad as over on the east coast

Ah well you see the west coast always has crappy weather and only about 1,000 people live west of Portlaoise anyway, so of course when something interesting happens in the east the news will take notice

Polo_Mint wrote: »

Seems alot of people in the know are saying we are getting a whiteout this winter.


Are we all prepared?

I can assure you that anyone saying we're getting a whiteout this winter aren't 'in the know'.

Wizard! wrote: »

Astrologers & psychics are more accurate than meteorologists...

If you're going to troll dude, you need to be a lot more subtle.