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10th Annual White Christmas Thread!

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  • #122
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    the rain and mild weather is making inroads earlier. Christmas Day now more like 6 or 7C instead of the 3 or 4C shown yesterday. St Stephens Day looks mild and possibly very wet.The week following the 26th to the first week of January is also looking wetter and wetter.


  • #123
    Rebelbrowser
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    Guidance getting milder all the time alright but still likely to be single figures and feeling raw enough but with rain likely too. Probably the average Irish winter's day really!


  • #124
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    BBC NI said hill snow for the West on Christmas day and showed the white precipation on the radar, even if it doesnt come true its nice to see it on the forecast :)


  • #125
    pauldry
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    Saw that. Still a slight chance.


  • #126
    Rebelbrowser
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    As of tonight Met Eireanns national forecast for tomorrow is:-

    "....TOMORROW - WEDNESDAY 25TH DECEMBER

    Tomorrow, Christmas day, will start frosty, with some ice and fog in places. The frost should soon clear, but a few patches of fog may linger for a time. Bright at first, with hazy sunshine, but turning breezy and fairly cloudy later. Southeast winds will increase fresh and later strong in Atlantic coastal counties. Cold, top temperatures of 4 to 7 C., generally, but up to 8 or 9 C., along parts of the south and southwest coasts....."

    Not bad all in all, but the wait for a white Christmas goes into a 16th year for most of us.

    I suppose as they say, ever tried, ever failed, never mind, try again, fail again, fail better!


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  • #127
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    Rebelbrowser wrote: »
    As of tonight Met Eireanns national forecast for tomorrow is:-

    "....TOMORROW - WEDNESDAY 25TH DECEMBER

    Tomorrow, Christmas day, will start frosty, with some ice and fog in places. The frost should soon clear, but a few patches of fog may linger for a time. Bright at first, with hazy sunshine, but turning breezy and fairly cloudy later. Southeast winds will increase fresh and later strong in Atlantic coastal counties. Cold, top temperatures of 4 to 7 C., generally, but up to 8 or 9 C., along parts of the south and southwest coasts....."

    Not bad all in all, but the wait for a white Christmas goes into a 16th year for most of us.

    I suppose as they say, ever tried, ever failed, never mind, try again, fail again, fail better!

    Right then, a beach walk it is in the morning :D


  • #128
    Danno
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    Rebelbrowser wrote: »

    Not bad all in all, but the wait for a white Christmas goes into a 16th year for most of us.

    I suppose as they say, ever tried, ever failed, never mind, try again, fail again, fail better!

    2010?


  • #129
    Cork Boy 53
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    Well Christmas Day 2019 has arrived and no chance of it being a white one. Anyway happy Christmas to everyone.


  • #130
    Carol25
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    Good morning and Happy Christmas! It’s a beautiful frosty one here near Athenry. Santa has arrived & the sunrise was beautiful. Roads could be very slippy.


  • #131
    Storm 10
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    Beautiful morning in Galway frosty the only bit of white for this Christmas

    Happy Christmas to you all , special Happy Christmas to all our weather posters thanks for all the updates and charts throughout the year they are greatly appreciated.


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  • #132
    Pretzill
    Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    Frosty here in Sligo too 90m asl.

    Lovely dry and bright day. Happy Christmas!


  • #133
    Rikand
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    I'm counting the frost in the back garden as a white one for me :)


  • #134
    Gonzo
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    Happy Christmas everyone! A lovely sunny and frosty morning here. Still some white patches on the grass, so it's as close to a White Christmas as were going to get!


  • #135
    screamer
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    Yep it was a frosty white Christmas Day for us here too, as I predicted back in the Autumn. It was lovely and just enough to be nice and festibe. Who knows, maybe next year for snow. Till then Happy Christmas weather boardsies.


  • #136
    Rebelbrowser
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    Danno wrote: »
    2010?

    No falling snow on the day in most, if not all, places I think? Appreciate it was very white looking.


  • #137
    Danno
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    Rebelbrowser wrote: »
    No falling snow on the day in most, if not all, places I think? Appreciate it was very white looking.

    No falling snow, but a carpet of over 10cm here certainly counts as a "white" Christmas for me. To say that a single snowflake falling on a green countryside warrants the title more than 10cm in 2010 is daft!

    Meanwhile, a foggy and frosty one here giving a grey Christmas!

    https://twitter.com/LaoisWeather/status/1209764041943597062


  • #138
    Rebelbrowser
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    Danno wrote: »
    No falling snow, but a carpet of over 10cm here certainly counts as a "white" Christmas for me. To say that a single snowflake falling on a green countryside warrants the title more than 10cm in 2010 is daft!

    Meanwhile, a foggy and frosty one here giving a grey Christmas!

    https://twitter.com/LaoisWeather/status/1209764041943597062

    I get you completely but rightly or wrongly falling snow is how its defined.


  • #139
    DellyBelly
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    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    Well Christmas Day 2019 has arrived and no chance of it being a white one. Anyway happy Christmas to everyone.

    Yep we got lucky again this year. Not a bad day to get out and about


  • #140
    refusetolose
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    strong winds and rain pelting down in cork city


  • #141
    Rebelbrowser
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    refusetolose wrote: »
    strong winds and rain pelting down in cork city

    An apt way for the thread to end! New thread in and around 1 November 2020 God willing....


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  • #142
    fryup
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    i hate this mild weather


  • #143
    Pangea
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    Rebelbrowser wrote: »
    I get you completely but rightly or wrongly falling snow is how its defined.

    Pangea wrote: »
    White out here in south donegal aswell! What a perfect day .
    Roads are bad!
    Pangea wrote: »
    I must say the image of the family eating christmas dinner last year and in the background through the window all you could see was the snow hammering down, a truly wonderful sight to be cherished.

    See my old posts above posted about Christmas 2010. Those were the Days! We indeed had fresh snow here in Donegal that day, so you can tick it off as an Offical White Christmas ;)


    Also for fun see this video of snow falling on Christmas Day 2017 in Donegal
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildatlanticwayguide/permalink/1889021171125693/


  • #144
    Cork Boy 53
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    Pangea wrote: »
    See my old posts above posted about Christmas 2010. Those were the Days! We indeed had fresh snow here in Donegal that day, so you can tick it off as an Offical White Christmas ;)


    Also for fun see this video of snow falling on Christmas Day 2017 in Donegal
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildatlanticwayguide/permalink/1889021171125693/

    Actually the rule is (or at least was in 2010) that the snowfall has to be recorded at either Dublin or Cork Airports to officially count as a white Christmas.


  • #145
    Rebelbrowser
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    Really wasnt trying to start this fight. In fairness all I said was that

    ".... the wait for a white Christmas goes into a 16th year for most of us...".

    I didnt say "..all of us.." as I thought the NW might have had christmas day snow in 2010 (and 2009 too possibly). But most of the population lives in the east with the second big population mass in the south and south west and I dont think either have had falling snow on 25 Dec since 2004. If Im wrong, Im wrong, but nothing posted since my (intended to be innocuous!) post shows Im wrong so far.

    Anyway, happy Christmas all....


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