Highest house in your area?

highdef · 15-03-2021 11:07am

I live in the very north of Kildare, not known for its high ground. The house on the top of the hill to my immediate south is at 137m and the house on the top of the hill to my immediate north is at 148m. My house sits in between, in a small valley and is at 87m.

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

At my location I have had 9 days of snow lying and 20 days of snow falling, which is actually about average but as you say we had a bit of a snow drought in the easterly.

Your location is stated as Limavady, which is more or less at sea level but it's assumed that you don't actually live in the town but you use the town as a reference point for your home as it is the closest urban area to you.

What height above sea level is your home located at?
Did the 9 days of lying snow occur at your house?
Did the 9 days of lying snow occur during the meteorological winter months of December/January/February?
What is your criteria for lying snow? For example, if it snows at my location and the snow sticks to rooves, grass and cars but does not stick to roads and pavements, I do not classify that as lying snow. I could be incorrect with regards to that classification but it's what I use so would be good to know what your criteria is in order to make a cross comparison to my own location.
For any of the 9 days of lying snow and/or 20 days of lying snow, did you have to travel elsewhere/away from your home, in order to witness lying and/or falling snow because such conditions were not occurring at your home?

The last question was asked because of observations I have made throughout the winter where rain or nothing was falling at your house so you travelled to another location in order to witness snow falling and/or on the ground.

The couple of small hills beside me, which I mentioned at the beginning of this post when I was sharing altitude details at my home, are only 50/60m higher than me in altitude but normally there are several occasions during each winter where there is either falling snow and/or lying snow at the summits whereas I have neither at my home. They are only about a kilometre away from my home but obviously cannot be counted as they are somewhere else.

Limavady is only about 6km from the sea and more or less as sea level but less than 8km inland from it and heading east towards Ringsend, the B66 road rises to almost 250m. That's massive increase in height when it comes to potential difference between heavy rain and whiteout snow.

15-03-2021 11:26am

Like others here Nqp15hhu,I'm just concerned as to why you feel the need to make stuff up and post it here
Your 20 days of falling snow this winter at your location and 9 days is untrue and you know this
This is the internet you are posting on,we know you are lying because the data all around you does not support your lies
My advice is not to tell any more lies and just post about the real weather in your area like the rest of us
You are after damaging your repuation as a poster beyond repair on weather too many times already with this carry on though

Nqp15hhu · 15-03-2021 11:32am

Excuse me how dare you accuse me of lying. Who do you think you are? I owe you nothing.

Oneiric 3 · 15-03-2021 12:59pm

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

However, we did still manage to have around 20 days of falling snow, which by the way isn't a massive amount if you average it out throughout the winter. That's about 4 days each month.

that comes to just under 7 days per winter month on average.

Oneiric 3 · 15-03-2021 1:07pm

If I were a snow obsessed man looking for a place to move to in Ireland for the snow, the north coast, or any coast, would not the places I'd be looking at. Roscommon/Leitrim/Cavan would be my preferred choice of area, plus they are more prone to summer thunderstorms than most other areas. Win win.

highdef · 15-03-2021 2:04pm

highdef wrote: »

I live in the very north of Kildare, not known for its high ground. The house on the top of the hill to my immediate south is at 137m and the house on the top of the hill to my immediate north is at 148m. My house sits in between, in a small valley and is at 87m.

Your location is stated as Limavady, which is more or less at sea level but it's assumed that you don't actually live in the town but you use the town as a reference point for your home as it is the closest urban area to you.
What height above sea level is your home located at?

Did the 9 days of lying snow occur at your house?

Did the 9 days of lying snow occur during the meteorological winter months of December/January/February?

What is your criteria for lying snow? For example, if it snows at my location and the snow sticks to rooves, grass and cars but does not stick to roads and pavements, I do not classify that as lying snow. I could be incorrect with regards to that classification but it's what I use so would be good to know what your criteria is in order to make a cross comparison to my own location.

For any of the 9 days of lying snow and/or 20 days of lying snow, did you have to travel elsewhere/away from your home, in order to witness lying and/or falling snow because such conditions were not occurring at your home?

The last question was asked because of observations I have made throughout the winter where rain or nothing was falling at your house so you travelled to another location in order to witness snow falling and/or on the ground.

The couple of small hills beside me, which I mentioned at the beginning of this post when I was sharing altitude details at my home, are only 50/60m higher than me in altitude but normally there are several occasions during each winter where there is either falling snow and/or lying snow at the summits whereas I have neither at my home. They are only about a kilometre away from my home but obviously cannot be counted as they are somewhere else.

Limavady is only about 6km from the sea and more or less as sea level but less than 8km inland from it and heading east towards Ringsend, the B66 road rises to almost 250m. That's massive increase in height when it comes to potential difference between heavy rain and whiteout snow.

Nqp15hhu, are you going to respond? I put a lot of effort into my post.

Supercell · 15-03-2021 2:32pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

If I were a snow obsessed man looking for a place to move to in Ireland for the snow, the north coast, or any coast, would not the places I'd be looking at. Roscommon/Leitrim/Cavan would be my preferred choice of area, plus they are more prone to summer thunderstorms than most other areas. Win win.

If I had a choice it would be somewhere on the Ballybrack road past Jonny Foxes in Glencullen, that's all around 300 metres, there or probably back in or near Roundwood with views of the lakes. In my dreams only alas, herself doesn't want to live in the countryside.

DumbBrunette · 15-03-2021 6:57pm

Maybe you could take her on a staycation to this place next January-

https://m.facebook.com/BallinascorneyLodge/

That's what I'm planning to do anyway!

Supercell wrote: »

If I had a choice it would be somewhere on the Ballybrack road past Jonny Foxes in Glencullen, that's all around 300 metres, there or probably back in or near Roundwood with views of the lakes. In my dreams only alas, herself doesn't want to live in the countryside.

arctictree · 15-03-2021 7:09pm

I'm at 250M and get a fair bit of falling snow every winter. Anytime the met say sleet/snow on high ground then we generally get it. Lying snow is very hit and miss, some years we could have 10 to 20 days, other years much less. If we get a good dumping and the weather stays cold then it can stay for weeks. There are houses higher up and they get much more lying snow then us. I'd say the summit of Lugnaquilla would have 30 to 60 days of lying snow each winter.

Captain Snow · 15-03-2021 7:28pm

Use to have snow end of September to May when I was in Fort MacMurray at 260 meters approx. Would say height had little do do with it . Had summer snow some years. But it would be gone by 6am.That was always a strange one.

Kaybaykwah · 15-03-2021 8:00pm

Captain Snow wrote: »

Use to have snow end of September to May when I was in Fort MacMurray at 260 meters approx. Would say height had little do do with it . Had summer snow some years. But it would be gone by 6am.That was always a strange one.

Yes, as you say, in Canada, altitudes matter less, we are in the witch's teat.

For those of you who appreciate snow, I am providing a little sample of snow removal operations in Montreal. The opening part is drone footage of an old quarry used as a dumping ground for the snow removed on city streets after snowfalls. At 1:13, there is a flyover of a snow dump in the Lasalle district. There are 8 such dumping sites in the city. The Lasalle one is the biggest one at 95,000 square meters. Other parts of the video show the actual removal of snow on streets and sidewalks. The annual budget the city allocate to snow operations is 250 million dollars.

https://youtu.be/bQujcjTZEG8

Tyrone212 · 15-03-2021 9:26pm

I briefly used to live at the top of a housing estate at 92m. The bottom of the estate was 70m. Some days there was snow lying at my house while there was nothing at the bottom of the estate, a mere 22m difference. Other days there was nothing with me but snow above 120 to 150m on the road to work. And others with widespread snow at lowest levels.

Small changes in altitude makes a big difference in those polar maritime set ups mentioned above. They do deliver low down but often 100m fairs much better and above 150m to 200m is a different world. March is another month that altitude makes a huge difference , I've often seen snow completely stay around the 150m mark while it mostly melts lower down in direct sunshine anyway.

There's big year on year differences between how much snow there is at modest elevation. It's often very marginal in ireland so the slightest bit of altitude can make a huge difference. Those houses hitting 400m mentioned on here must have seen some crazy snowstorms over the years while it was pissing with the rest of us.

Pangea · 16-03-2021 10:31am

After a quick check the highest inhabitated I can see is 236 metres in Meenachurrin, Ardara, Donegal, There was a TG4 Nuacht segment a while back talking about the two story house in on top of Meenaroy and that it was the highest house in Donegal. I think it's derelict now. So that doesn't count really.

Tyrone212 · 16-03-2021 7:14pm

Pangea wrote: »

After a quick check the highest inhabitated I can see is 236 metres in Meenachurrin, Ardara, Donegal, There was a TG4 Nuacht segment a while back talking about the two story house in on top of Meenaroy and that it was the highest house in Donegal. I think it's derelict now. So that doesn't count really.

I see a isolated house 265m, 5km from letterkenny. Would be a good spot for snow, a good bit inland. I don't think there's any above 300m in Donegal. That might be the highest.

King of Spades · 16-03-2021 8:05pm

Live at about 150m asl beside Hill of Tara. Decent enough altitude for a few snowfalls here most winters. Kilmessan is just 5 mins drive down the hill and always at least a degree warmer which makes a big difference for snow falling/sticking when the cold is marginal - which is usually the case in our winters.

Gaoth Laidir · 16-03-2021 9:29pm

Highest house in my area is 3 storeys.

Rebelbrowser · 17-03-2021 10:43am

The Top of Croom pub on the Kerry Cork border at 319m is probably worth a mention in this thread. Had to cycle up to it once (and I don't really cycle). Felt every inch the 319m....

Pangea · 17-03-2021 7:59pm

What's the best site to use for checking elevation? Does Google have an option for elevation?

Gaoth Laidir · 17-03-2021 8:04pm

Pangea wrote: »

What's the best site to use for checking elevation? Does Google have an option for elevation?

I use this Norwegian site for aviation, but it also has an excellent elevation tool too. Just zoom in and right-click on the location to show elevation. Also, double click on it to get a meteogram.

https://www.ippc.no/ippc/

Tyrone212 · 17-03-2021 8:09pm

Pangea wrote: »

What's the best site to use for checking elevation? Does Google have an option for elevation?

I use the Google Earth app. Can be a bit awkward scrolling on it but it shows altitude for every location you select and you can access street view through it.

prosaic · 18-03-2021 7:05pm

There are some datasets with global terrain data.
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) has resolution to 30m (I assume it is available for Ireland).
A few years ago (8 or 10?) I played with some of that sort of data, building contour maps and overlaying in Google Earth by making kml file of contours.

Truckermal · 18-03-2021 7:12pm

gooseman12 wrote: »

The butter road in cork goes pretty high and there's houses to almost 380m from what I can see on the terrain layer on google maps.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/52.014475,+-8.954645/@52.0146696,-8.9549989,17z/data=!3m1!1e3

I live very near that my house is 240M...

Highest house in your area?

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