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Severe winter storm- Severe Blizzards and Heavy Snow this evening/night - Take Action

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  • #502
    irish1967
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭irish1967


    Looks like the west coast is escaping as well.


  • #503
    delw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Drizzle and fog here now. Calm. 2.9c Lights flickering?
    drizzle here aswell,lights flickering aswell


  • #504
    Deep Easterly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    snaps wrote: »
    non stop rain all day here (Even though radar shows nothing). its been lashing since i was in the pub at lunchtime. 2.8c at the moment. Theres been a lot of rain as the garden has water laying. The mountains to the West of me are covered in snow down to about half way. So i would say snow level is around 300m

    If the visibility clears tomorrow I might be able to get to see the snow on the mountains as too far away see them under these conditions.


  • #505
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    I'd not go by Dp's in Glasgow for Coleraine Owen, is there no station nearer you can look at?

    Latest METARs form Aldergrove, Belfast City and Derry airports, with Temp/DP in bold

    [FONT=Monospace,Courier]Aldergrove (268ft) EGAA 301920Z 36018KT 2000 SN OVC006 01/00 Q0985 (Moderate snow)[/FONT]
    [FONT=Monospace,Courier]Belfast City (16ft) EGAC 301920Z 01028G41KT 2500 +RA SCT006 OVC008 03/02 Q0984 (Heavy rain)[/FONT]
    [FONT=Monospace,Courier]Derry (10ft) EGAE 301850Z 02030G40KT 7000 RA BKN007 03/02 Q0989 (Moderate rain)[/FONT]

    Donegal Airport 04/01


  • #506
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Ye must be some major tech fault cos my lights have been flickering for last hour.

    Meanwhile its reall just patience the feature will slowly creep east, with cold air wrapping in from the northwest, winds steadily increasing.

    Currently a slightly less cold pool in the eye currently pushed affecting parts of northeast Leinster.

    Interesting night ahead


  • #507
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    Su Campu wrote: »
    Latest METARs form Aldergrove, Belfast City and Derry airports, with Temp/DP in bold

    [FONT=Monospace,Courier]Aldergrove (268ft) EGAA 301920Z 36018KT 2000 SN OVC006 01/00 Q0985[/FONT]
    [FONT=Monospace,Courier]Belfast City (16ft) EGAC 301920Z 01028G41KT 2500 +RA SCT006 OVC008 03/02 Q0984[/FONT]
    [FONT=Monospace,Courier]Derry (10ft) EGAE 301850Z 02030G40KT 7000 RA BKN007 03/02 Q0989[/FONT]

    will dps drop?? they were ment to be negative by now.


  • #508
    Trogdor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,310 ✭✭✭Trogdor


    Lights flickering here as well with the flickers getting more frequent...temp is up, now at 4.3C/2.8C we won't have snow at these temps but hopefully it might fall back a bit later on


  • #509
    Pangea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    snow ghost wrote: »
    Pangea,

    Can you imagine the blizzards we'd be having if we were getting snow with these winds!
    Shockin! :(

    Lights flickering here too, better not shut off with united game on!


  • #510
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,030 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    trogdor wrote: »
    Lights flickering here as well with the flickers getting more frequent...temp is up, now at 4.3C/2.8C we won't have snow at these temps but hopefully it might fall back a bit later on

    Its the extra load cause all the bankers are still in their offices fretting about NAMA :D


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  • #511
    Deep Easterly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    t|nt|n wrote: »
    Its the extra load cause all the bankers are still in their offices fretting about NAMA :D

    Don't get me started! :mad:


  • #512
    lucy2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭lucy2010


    trogdor wrote: »
    Lights flickering here as well with the flickers getting more frequent...temp is up, now at 4.3C/2.8C we won't have snow at these temps but hopefully it might fall back a bit later on

    hey trog - Yeah been going on last hour... cutbacks me thinks ...
    Should temp drop at all for us or are we gonna just see the usual few flakes ??
    Jenzz


  • #513
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    I don't like what the radar has in store for the Pale. SFA in comparison to what Northern Ireland has seen today. A lot of the rain's intensity has been used up and as the LP starts to move south, the fronts will lose some of the strong temperature gradient that has been feeding them. The M2 buoy which is about 40 km to the east of Howth is reporting only 3.9 degrees now. In good news, over the next hour or so any precipitation that falls, will fall as snow.

    Also, flickering of lights has been duly noted in college.


  • #514
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
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    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    Don't get me started! :mad:

    Discuss....

    lol ! :D

    But back OT, my lights are flickering in Naas too.... thats lights flickering accross the country !! spooky !!


  • #515
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    its snowing now white stuff on velux... though still sleety... heavier too.. will see how well it goes..


  • #516
    Deep Easterly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    t|nt|n wrote: »
    Discuss....

    lol ! :D

    But back OT, my lights are flickering in Naas too.... thats lights flickering accross the country !! spooky !!

    No lights flickering here.


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  • #517
    Cutie18Ireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭Cutie18Ireland


    In Meath, lights are flickering too...


  • #518
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    t|nt|n wrote: »
    Discuss....

    lol ! :D

    But back OT, my lights are flickering in Naas too.... thats lights flickering accross the country !! spooky !!

    ...And here in Celbridge! :eek:


  • #519
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,994 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Pangea wrote: »
    Shockin! :(

    Lights flickering here too, better not shut off with united game on!

    bayern missed two sitters:mad:

    meanwhile, there was a rain and wet snow mix for the last twenty minutes. now it's back to all rain again. it's fairly blustery outside(where else:p) as well.


  • #520
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Su Campu wrote: »
    ...And here in Celbridge! :eek:

    Whats going on even Pangea lights are flickering!

    Must be the Hadron Collider in CERN.


  • #521
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    owenc wrote: »
    will dps drop?? they were ment to be negative by now.

    Says who - the models??!! :D (I'm kidding, OK!!) :pac:


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  • #522
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,004 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Pangea wrote: »
    Shockin! :(

    Lights flickering here too, better not shut off with united game on!

    What's causing the lights to go funny? The TV went to standby mode 4 times in the last hour at the same time as the lights were mad. I thought I had a poltergeist!


  • #523
    cherryghost
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    lights have been flickering a bit here too


  • #524
    Alicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    Lights flickered in Malahide too a few minutes ago....


  • #525
    punkindrublic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 431 ✭✭punkindrublic


    Lights were flickering here earlier (about 30-40min ago) but are back to normal now. It's starting to rain so the snow is melting, yay.


  • #526
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    It's a bit like the Day After Tomorrow!

    Lights flickering (not mine though), Man Utd playing (they were playing Celtic in that film :p) and snow!


  • #527
    gothwalk
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭gothwalk


    And I can report lights flickering in Maynooth as well. I can understand it in one place, but right across Leinster seems a bit odd.

    2.5C, cold rain, occasional stiff breeze. Miserable night, in other words, but nothing remarkable.


  • #528
    punkindrublic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 431 ✭✭punkindrublic


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    What's causing the lights to go funny? The TV went to standby mode 4 times in the last hour at the same time as the lights were mad. I thought I had a poltergeist!

    Yeah our tv has been doing that since about 5pm!


  • #529
    Artfu1Dodger
    Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭Artfu1Dodger


    15000 homes without power in NI due to the weather. Just seen it on sky news.


  • #530
    Deep Easterly
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    Just had a report from a friend that lights a flickering on the other side of town big style :eek:. Oddly not this side though.


  • #531
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,994 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    Just had a report from a friend that lights a flickering on the other side of town big style :eek:. Oddly not this side though.

    hmm strange. they flickered here for a couple of minutes. everything then went to normal- except for donuts and frogs falling from the sky:(

    well, back to the match now.


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  • #532
    Deep Easterly
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    Wind really becoming a feature here now. Sounds quite frightening outside with a high pitched whistling going on.


  • #533
    GTE
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    gothwalk wrote: »
    And I can report lights flickering in Maynooth as well. I can understand it in one place, but right across Leinster seems a bit odd.

    I can add that Enfield Co. Meath lights are a flickering!


  • #534
    Deep Easterly
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    nacho libre wrote: »
    hmm strange. they flickered here for a couple of minutes. everything then went to normal- except for donuts and frogs falling from the sky:(

    well, back to the match now.

    It is an odd one Nacho. Unless I just an not noticing it but nothing here, yet just a mile on the other side of town it is supposed to be mad.


  • #535
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    Just had a report from a friend that lights a flickering on the other side of town big style :eek:. Oddly not this side though.

    oh aye my bothers lights didnt go out in the town and ours did.. but there back on now.


  • #536
    Vudgie
    Registered Users Posts: 861 ✭✭✭Vudgie


    It is so wet here in d16. Wind has picked up but it has been heavy rain for the last hour. Not very likely for any potential snow to stick even if it does come.


  • #537
    lucernarian
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    National Grid must be misbehaving. It appears the radar images for Northern Ireland have perked up, so I'm a little more confident that snow is on its way here too. But I really want to see that LP moving off our coast! Unless the surface LP starts moving due east, much of the snow will be for Carlow/Kildare/Kilkenny even if it tracks east a bit more. The precipitation in Northern Ireland is the one to watch for north Leinster.


  • #538
    xcarriex
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    Very wet and windy in Tallaght lights flickering for a while seem to have calmed now!


  • #539
    maquiladora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Heard that its snowing heavy in south kilkenny at the moment.


  • #540
    Deep Easterly
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    Mean wind speed shooting up to 23mph now. Direction alternating between NNW and North.


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  • #541
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    baraca wrote: »
    Pics or GTFO


    No pics but its just very heavy and with the wind its blowing it off roofs and around from the ground and creating like dust storms of snow, about 3 inches inches fell in the last while.
    Living on high ground exposed to the north west isn't helping matters....


  • #542
    maquiladora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Lads, your lights are flickering because the high winds are blowing trees against power lines in your area which grounds the electricity for a moment, causing the flicker.


  • #543
    Supercell
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    This is not going to plan at all, where is my snow day tomorrow!!
    Jaysus there will be work breaking out all over the place if this keeps up :D
    https://www.loughlinstown.ie/

    Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



  • #544
    Min
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    maquiladora wrote: »
    Heard that its snowing heavy in south kilkenny at the moment.

    So they got an unwanted present from north of the county....we're still trying to get rid of it..... :P


  • #545
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    Latest reports from Ireland (Temp/DP)

    Airports

    Dublin     3/3 Light Rain and Drizzle
    Shannon 3/2 Light Rain
    Cork 4/1 Light Rain Shower
    Knock 2/1 Light Sleet
    Belfast Aldergrove 1/0 Moderate snow
    Belfast City 3/2 Heavy Rain
    Derry Eglington 3/2 Moderate Rain
    Donegal 4/1
    Sligo 4/1
    Waterford 3/2 Light Rain and Drizzle


    Other Met Éireann Stations (8pm)


    Belmullet 6/2 Light Rain Shower
    Ballyhaise 1/0 Light Snow
    Casement 3/3 Light Rain
    Claremorris 3/1
    Finner 3/2
    Gurteen 1/1 Moderate Rain
    Johnstown Castle 2/1 Light Rain
    Mace Head 5/3 Recent Rain
    Malin Head 3/2 Light Rain
    Mullingar 1/1 Light Snow
    Oak Park 0/-0 Light Snow
    Roches Point 6/3 Light Rain Shower
    Sherkin Island 6/3 Light Rain Shower
    Valentia 7/1 Recent Rain


  • #546
    claytonie
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    I think reading this thread is causing the lights to flicker ours were fine until I read about everyone else having flickering lights :D


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  • #547
    [Deleted User]
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    lights flickering here and the winds just broke my gate :(


  • #548
    ninebeanrows
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    Supercell wrote: »
    This is not going to plan at all, where is my snow day tomorrow!!
    Jaysus there will be work breaking out all over the place if this keeps up :D

    Things have just turned here, wind increased steadily from the north with mod rain.


  • #549
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    Vudgie wrote: »
    It is so wet here in d16. Wind has picked up but it has been heavy rain for the last hour. Not very likely for any potential snow to stick even if it does come.

    It will, its very heavy, everywhere was wet here and you would think the wet was superglue the way it stuck.


  • #550
    lucernarian
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    maquiladora wrote: »
    Lads, your lights are flickering because the high winds are blowing trees against power lines in your area which grounds the electricity for a moment, causing the flicker.

    Does that explanation work for TCD in the middle of Dublin 2?


    In other news, I'm glad to hear reports of snow being able to stick on wet ground. I speculated yesterday that snow will have no problems once temperatures drop to about zero. It can snow at 2 degrees but it'll be nigh on impossible for it to stick.

    I shall be heading for Louth now, hopefully no interruptions will come to the power supply or my journey! And if the power goes, well man created car batteries for a reason:p


  • #551
    Trogdor
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    maquiladora wrote: »
    Lads, your lights are flickering because the high winds are blowing trees against power lines in your area which grounds the electricity for a moment, causing the flicker.

    Winds are yet to get going here at all though, been calm all evening


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